John Tyler Morgan
United States politician and Confederate soldier (1824-1907) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 82
John Tyler Morgan was an American politician who was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and later was elected for six terms as the U.S. senator (1877-1907) from the state of Alabama.
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A studio portrait of Morgan taken circa 1860-1869
Morgan and fellow Klan leader Edmund Winston Pettus (pictured) played key roles in overturning Reconstruction efforts in postbellum Alabama.
Morgan circa 1893
Morgan, aged seventy-seven, circa 1901, six years before his death
Morgan is buried in Live Oak Cemetery which contains a memorial to fellow Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Morgan's grand-niece was Zelda Fitzgerald, the neo-Confederate wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda later espoused fascism as a political creed.
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A prominent slaveholder before the Civil War, he became the second Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama during the Reconstruction era. Morgan and fellow Klan member Edmund W. Pettus became the ringleaders of white supremacy in Alabama and did more than anyone else in the state to overthrow Reconstruction efforts in the wake of the Civil War. When President Ulysses S. Grant dispatched U.S. Attorney General Amos Akerman to prosecute the Klan under the Enforcement Acts, Morgan was arrested and jailed.
