Edward Mortimer Morgan
American postmaster
About Edward Mortimer Morgan
Lived 1855 – 1925 (aged 69–70). Edward Mortimer Morgan was an American.
Edward M. Morgan, Frank Harris Hitchcock, and Earle Lewis Ovington Edward M. Morgan, Frank Harris Hitchcock, and Earle Lewis Ovington Edward M. Morgan (1855 - January 9, 1925) was the Postmaster of New York City for the first delivery of airmail by Earle Lewis Ovington.
Biography He was born in 1855. Morgan started off as a letter carrier, and was appointed Postmaster of New York City by President Theodore Roosevelt on August 14, 1907, succeeding William R. Willcox, who had resigned to head the Public Service Board. Thomas F. Murphy was appointed as the assistant Postmaster. On December 13, 1911, President William Howard Taft reappointed him to another term of office.
He died on January 9, 1925, at the Lutheran Hospital in New York City.
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American postmaster (1855–1925)
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Edward Mortimer Morgan died on 9 January 1925.
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