Frederic A. Morgan

Frederic Arthur Morgan (May 15, 1846 - ?) was an American farmer from Black Wolf, Wisconsin who held local elective office and served a single one-year term as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1871.^[1]

Background[]

Morgan was born May 15, 1846 Pewaukee, in Waukesha County, Wisconsin Territory. He attended public school, including some time at the high school in Fond du Lac. He became a farmer, and settled in Black Wolf in 1851. During the American Civil War, he served as a private in the 39th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment.

Public office[]

Morgan was a member of the town board of supervisors, of which he was elected chairman in 1868 and re-elected in 1869. In 1870, he was elected to the 3rd Winnebago County Assembly district (the Towns of Black Wolf, Nekimi, Nepeuskin, Omro, Poygan, Rushford, and Utica) for the 24th Wisconsin Legislature as a Republican, with 1,142 votes, against 69 write-ins (Republican incumbent James H. Foster was running for the Wisconsin Senate, and there was no Democratic or third party nominee). Morgan was the youngest member of the Assembly during that session. He was assigned to the standing committees on the militia and on contingent expenditures.^[2] After the legislature was redistricted, most of the old 3rd Winnebago County district was assigned to a new 4th District, which would be represented in 1872 by Republican Alson Wood. Black Wolf and Omro remained in a drastically revised 3rd District, which would go to Democrat Nelson Beckwith. Morgan was not a candidate for either district.

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