William Duane Morgan

William Duane Morgan (1817–1887) was a newspaper editor and Democratic politician. He owned papers in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania and later Ohio. He was also Ohio State Auditor 1852-1856.

William Duane Morgan
7th Ohio State Auditor
In office
January 12, 1852 – January 14, 1856
GovernorReuben Wood
William Medill
Preceded byJohn Woods
Succeeded byFrancis Mastin Wright
Personal details
Born1817
Washington County, Pennsylvania
Died1887
Newark, Ohio
Political partyDemocratic

William Duane Morgan was born to a prominent family in Washington County, Pennsylvania. In 1837, he and his brother, Thomas Jefferson Morgan, owned and edited the Washington County Democratic newspaper Our Country.[1]

In 1840 he moved to New Lisbon, Ohio, where he owned the Ohio Patriot.[1] He was nominated at the state Democratic Party convention for Ohio State Auditor in 1851, and defeated his Free Soil Party and incumbent Whig opponents in the general election.[2] He served a four-year term, but was defeated by Republican Francis Mastin Wright for re-election.[3] He then owned the Newark Advocate in Newark, Ohio from 1856 to 1880. He died in 1887.[1]

Notes
  1. William Duane Morgan Correspondence Syracuse University Library
  2. Bell 1876 : 114
  3. Bell 1876 : 125

References
  • Bell, William, Jr. (1876). Annual report of the Secretary of State to the Governor and General Assembly for the year 1875... Ohio Secretary of State.
  • William Duane Morgan at Find a Grave
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