From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lewis L. Morgan
Lewis L. Morgan
Lewis Lovering Morgan (March 2, 1876-June 10, 1950) was tion. Former Governor Earl Long was running for lieu-
an American lawyer and politician form the state of tenant governor that year, and Long had a plurality in
Louisiana. the first primary election. Morgan was pressured to with-
He served in the United States House of Represen- draw from the runoff against Davis. Had he done so, Earl
tatives from November 5, 1912, to March 4, 1917, from Long would have become lieutenant governor without
Louisiana’s 6th congressional district, which then includ- the need of a party runoff primary. By contesting the sec-
ed part of the New Orleans area. He is best remembered ond balloting with Davis, Morgan set the stage inadver-
as the candidate of the Earl Long faction, which lost the tently for J. Emile Verret of New Iberia, the seat of Ibe-
pivotal Democratic nomination for governor of Louisiana ria Parish, to defeat Earl Long for the nomination to the
to James Houston "Jimmie" Davis in the 1944 Louisiana state’s second highest office. (See Wade O. Martin, Jr. for
gubernatorial election. more details on the 1944 election.)
Davis received 251,228 votes (53.6 percent) to Mor-
Early life and education gan’s 217,915 ballots (46.5 percent). At sixty-eight, Mor-
gan was one of the oldest major candidates to have
Morgan was born in Mandeville in St. Tammany Parish. sought the Louisiana governorship. In 1964, the Repub-
He was a descendant of David Bannister Morgan lican nominee, Charlton H. Lyons, Sr., of Shreveport,
(1773–1848), a pioneer in the settlement of Louisiana who sought the office at the age of sixty-nine, and his success-
was also a brigadier general in the Battle of New Orleans ful Democratic opponent, John J. McKeithen, made age an
in the War of 1812. Morgan attended public schools and issue in that race.
St. Eugene’s College in St. Tammany Parish. In 1899, he Morgan died in New Orleans. He is interred in Coving-
graduated from the Tulane University Law School in New ton Cemetery in Covington. He was Episcopalian.
Orleans.
References
Career • Lewis Lovering Morgan," A Dictionary of Louisiana
Morgan was admitted to the bar in 1902 and began his Biography (1988), p. 582.
law practice in Covington, the seat of St. Tammany Par- • http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/
ish. He married the former Lenora Cefalu. They had two biodisplay.pl?index=M000955
children. • Who’s Who in Louisiana and Mississippi (1918)
Morgan was the president of the St. Tammany Parish • Morgan obituary, New Orleans Times-Picayune, June
Board of Election Supervisors from 1900 to 1908, and the 11, 1950
president of the parish school board as well from 1904 to • Congressional Quarterly’s Guide to U.S. Elections,
1908. He served briefly in the Louisiana House of Repre- Gubernatorial primaries, 1944
sentatives in 1908 but resigned to become the St. Tam- Persondata
many Parish district attorney. He served in that position
Name Morgan, Lewis L.
from 1908 to 1912, when he was elected to the U.S. House
of Representatives in a special election to fill the vacancy Alternative names
caused by the death of Representative Robert C. Wick- Short description
liffe. He did not seek a third term in Congress in 1916 but Date of birth 1876
resumed his law practice in both Covington and New Or-
leans in 1917. Place of birth
Morgan was a delegate to the 1912 and 1936 Demo- Date of death 1950
cratic National Conventions. He was also a delegate to Place of death
the Democratic State Convention in 1912, 1916, 1920, and
1924.
Morgan was an unsuccessful candidate for governor
in the election of 1944, having been backed by New Or-
leans Mayor Robert Maestri as the choice of the Long fac-
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