William M. Morgan (congressman)


William Mitchell Morgan was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Born in Brownsville, Ohio, Morgan attended the public schools.
He pursued various occupations until 1898, when he moved to Newark, Ohio.
He was employed as a laborer and later as a musician.
He studied literature and science.
He engaged in agriculture, merchandising, and the wool-buying business.
He was active in organized labor movements, serving as president of the Newark Musicians' Union.
Morgan was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress and for election in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress.
He resumed his former business pursuits.
He served as president of the Ohio State Federation of Labor in 1935, resigning the same year to become a member of the state industrial commission, in which he served until his death in Columbus, Ohio, on September 17, 1935.
He was interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, Ohio.