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SUMMARY:Justice for All: Dick T. Morgan\, Frontier Lawyer & Common Man’s Congressman  book discussion and signing with author Michael Hightower and David and Kenyon Morgan
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, February 26\, beginning at 5:30 p.m.\, historian and author Michael J. Hightower will have a book discussion and signing at the Oklahoma History Center for his newest title Justice for All: Dick T. Morgan\, Frontier Lawyer & Common Man’s Congressman. The book discussion will include David and Kenyon Morgan\, who are Dick T. Morgan’s great-grandsons. \nJustice for All chronicles the career of Dick T. Morgan\, an Oklahoma founding father whose public service reflects a passion for fairness that was sorely lacking in Gilded Age America. After arriving in the Unassigned Lands (later\, central Oklahoma) with the first wave of non-Native settlers on April 22\, 1889\, Morgan developed a reputation as the go-to lawyer for land disputes\, built a substantial real estate business\, and promoted church-building across Oklahoma Territory. During his tenure in Congress from 1909 until his death in 1920\, he helped create institutions central to progressivism in the post-frontier period and shaped modern America\, including the Federal Reserve System\, the Federal Trade Commission\, and the Federal Farm Credit System. \nMorgan’s adeptness in working across the aisle in a perpetually divided Congress serves as a wake-up call to politicians in thrall to ideology and identity politics at the expense of the public welfare. His speeches\, publications\, correspondence\, newspaper interviews\, and congressional testimonies reveal him as a public servant whose bedrock principles were rooted in the Republican Party—that is\, the party of Lincoln. \nIn both public and private life\, Morgan demonstrated a deep allegiance to what one of his role models\, President James A. Garfield\, defined as the heart and soul of the nation and the basis of a free government: the church\, the school\, and the home. \n  \nJustice for All owes its existence to Dick T. Morgan’s great-grandsons\, David and Kenyon Morgan (seen above)\, who resolved to rescue their ancestor from a century of undeserved obscurity. Traveling\, literally and figuratively\, in their great-grandfather’s footsteps\, the Morgan brothers combined their talents in a journey of discovery that helped this biographer illuminate the Progressive Era through the experiences of a native Hoosier who became one of his adopted state’s most beloved and influential citizens. \n  \n
URL:https://www.okhistory.org/calendar/event/justice-for-all-dick-t-morgan-frontier-lawyer-common-mans-congressman-book-discussion-and-signing-with-author-michael-hightower-and-david-and-kenyon-morgan/
LOCATION:Oklahoma History Center\, 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive\, Oklahoma City\, OK\, 73105\, United States
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CATEGORIES:Book discussion,Programs and lectures
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