John T. Morgan
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Due to his notoriety in Alabama for opposing Reconstruction efforts, Morgan was elected as a U.S. Senator in 1876. During his subsequent six terms as Senator, he was an outspoken proponent of black disfranchisement, racial segregation, and lynching African-Americans. According to historians, he played a leading role "in forging the ideology of white supremacy that dominated American race relations from the 1890s to the 1960s." Widely considered to be among the most notorious racist ideologues of his time, he is often credited by scholars with laying the foundation of the Jim Crow era.
In addition to his lifelong efforts to uphold white supremacy, Morgan became an ardent expansionist and imperialist during the Gilded Age. He envisioned the United States as a globe-spanning empire and believed that island nations such as Hawaii and the Philippines should be forcibly annexed in order for the country to dominate trade in the Pacific Ocean. Accordingly, he advocated for the United States to annex the independent Republic of Hawaii and to construct an inter-oceanic canal in Central America. Due to this advocacy, he was often posthumously referred to as "the Father of the Panama Canal" despite being a proponent of the Canal to be located in Nicaragua. Morgan was a staunch opponent of women's suffrage.
After his death by heart attack in 1907, Morgan's numerous relatives remained influential in Alabama politics and high society for many decades. His extended family owned the First White House of the Confederacy in Montgomery. His nephew and protege, Anthony Dickinson Sayre, was President of the Alabama State Senate and later an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. Sayre played a pivotal role in passing the landmark 1893 Sayre Act which disenfranchised black Alabamians for seventy years and ushered in the Jim Crow period in the state. Morgan's grand-niece was Jazz Age socialite Zelda Sayre, the wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Provided by Wikipedia
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In the Senate of the United States. February 19, 1891. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following report: (To accompany S....
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In the Senate of the United States. February 27, 1888. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill...
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In the Senate of the United States. January 6, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S....
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In the Senate of the United States. June 7, 1888. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolutions: Whereas in the report of the Committee on Foreign Relati...
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In the Senate of the United States. June 14, 1888. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resol...
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In the Senate of the United States. June 19, 1888. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 4...
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In the Senate of the United States. June 20, 1888. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill...
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In the Senate of the United States. December 9, 1889. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S...
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In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1890. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that during the continuance of the order for...
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In the Senate of the United States. June 18, 1890. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolutions: Reso...
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In the Senate of the United States. March 26, 1884. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (To accompany S....
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In the Senate of the United States. April 15, 1884. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Committee on the Judiciary be direct...
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In the Senate of the United States. January 30, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following resolutions: Resolved, that the Secretary of War be directed to t...
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In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S...
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In the Senate of the United States. February 7, 1882 --- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (To accompany t...
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In the Senate of the United States. March 14, 1882. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following report. (To accompany the...
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In the Senate of the United States. February 3, 1886. -- Referred to the Committee on Rules and ordered to be printed. Mr. Morgan submitted the following motion: Standing order. Or...
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Nicaragua and other interoceanic canals. January 4, 1900. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Interoceanic canals. January 18, 1900. -- Ordered to be printed.
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Certain dock facilities at Straits of Mackinac, etc. January 19, 1903. -- Ordered to be printed.
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