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{{Short description|American Brevet Brigadier General (1839–1902)}}
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|name = Thomas Jefferson Morgan
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1839|08|17}}
|birth_place = [[Franklin, Indiana]], U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|1902|07|13|1839|08|17}}
|death_place = [[Ossining (town), New York|Ossining, New York]], U.S.
| president1 = [[Benjamin Harrison]]
| office1 = [[Commissioner of Indian Affairs]]
| predecessor1 = [[John H. Oberly]]
| successor1 = [[Daniel M. Browning]]
| term_start1 = 1889
| term_end1 = 1893
|allegiance = United States ([[Union (American Civil War)|Union]])
|branch = [[United States Army]] ([[Union Army]])
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|serviceyears = 1861<br>1862 – 1865
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|rank = [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]]<br />[[Brevet (military)|Bvt.]] [[Brigadier general (United States)|Brigadier General]]
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|unit = [[7th Indiana Infantry Regiment]]
|commands = [[14th United States Colored Infantry Regiment]]
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*[[Franklin–Nashville campaign]]
**[[Battle of Nashville]]
*[[Atlanta campaign]]
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|alma_mater = [[Franklin College (Indiana)|Franklin College]]
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'''Thomas Jefferson Morgan''' was an American Brevet Brigadier General during the [[American Civil War]]. He commanded the [[14th United States Colored Infantry Regiment]] throughout the middle and end of the war. Later on, he became a prominent member of the [[Rochester Theological Seminary]] and would go on to be a prominent teaching figure across the United States. His works were renowned across the education world and managed to become vice president of the [[National Education Association]] from 1887 to 1889 and the [[Commissioner of Indian Affairs]] from 1889 to 1893.

==American Civil War==
Thomas was born on August 17, 1839, at [[Franklin, Indiana]]. After graduating from the college, Morgan immediately enlisted in the [[7th Indiana Infantry Regiment]] for around three months before his tenure expired and temporarily became a teacher at [[Atlanta, Illinois]].

Morgan re-enlisted in the [[Union Army]] on August 1, 1862, as a First Lieutenant of the [[70th Indiana Infantry Regiment]] but then organized to be the Lieutenant Colonel of the [[14th United States Colored Infantry Regiment]] on November 1, 1863.<ref name="data">{{Cite web|title=American Civil War Database|url=http://civilwardata.com/active/hdsquery.dll?Officer?1524&U|website=Civil War Data|access-date=May 15, 2022}}</ref> After being promoted to Colonel on New Years of 1864, he organized 2 other regiments took command of the First Colored Brigade of the [[Army of the Cumberland]]. He went on to participate at the [[Atlanta campaign]] as well as the [[Battle of Nashville]] while being in the general staff of [[Oliver Otis Howard]].

Morgan was brevetted Brigadier General on March 13, 1865, before resigning on April 1, 1865.<ref name="data"/>

==Post-War Career==
After the war, Morgan attended the [[Rochester Theological Seminary]]. In 1869, he was made Baptist minister and served as the Corresponding Secretary for the New York Union for Ministerial Union and became a pastor at [[Brownville, Nebraska]] in the following year.<ref name="Toronto">{{Cite journal|title=Anti-Catholicism, Indian Education and Thomas Jefferson Morgan, Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Canadian Journal of History|url=https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/cjh.23.2.213?journalCode=cjh|website=[[University of Toronto Press]]| doi=10.3138/cjh.23.2.213 |access-date=May 15, 2022}}</ref> In 1872, he became the principal of the [[Peru State College|Nebraska State Normal School]] before later on, took similar positions at the [[State University of New York at Potsdam|Potsdam Normal School]] and the [[Rhode Island State Normal School]].<ref name="Toronto"/><ref name="Father">{{Cite book|author=Francis Paul Prucha|title=The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians|volume=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iSeWGTYsFcsC&dq=%22Thomas+Jefferson+Morgan%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA701|date=January 1, 1995|publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]]|pages=701|access-date=May 15, 2022|isbn=0803287348}}</ref> After the election of [[Benjamin Harrison]], Morgan was a member of the Anti-Catholic [[League for the Protection of American Institutions]] and for the remaining years of his life, advocated for the [[American Protective Association]].<ref name="Toronto"/> Around the time of Harrison's presidency, Morgan was made the [[Commissioner of Indian Affairs]] in 1889 in order to promote education within Native Americans as Morgan had previous experience within the [[National Education Association]] as he frequently attended their meetings and became vice president from 1887 to 1889.<ref name="Father"/> Morgan viewed education on Native Americans as an easy way for them to fit into society and that the system itself can be improved with one generation.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Jacqueline Fear-Segal|title=White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rSJ63QSq24IC&dq=%22Thomas+Jefferson+Morgan%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA73|date=January 1, 2007|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|pages=74|isbn=978-0803220249}}</ref> Morgan was also an advocate for Chinese immigration in the United States, actively protesting the legislation for discriminating against Chinese immigrants.<ref>{{Cite book|author1=Jon Reyhner|author2=Jeanne Eder|title=American Indian Education: A History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vLYZBgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Thomas+Jefferson+Morgan%22+-wikipedia&pg=PT80|date=January 7, 2015|publisher=[[University of Oklahoma Press]]|access-date=May 15, 2022|isbn=978-0806148854}}</ref> He resigned in 1893 to become the secretary of the Home Mission society as well as founding the Delta Chapter of [[Phi Delta Theta]] fraternity in Franklin College. After his death on July 13, 1902, he was buried at [[Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York]].

==See also==
*[[List of American Civil War brevet generals (Union)]]
*[[Bureau of Indian Affairs]]

==References==
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[[Category:1839 births]]
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[[Category:People from Franklin, Indiana]]
[[Category:Union Army colonels]]
[[Category:Union Army generals]]
[[Category:People of Indiana in the American Civil War]]
[[Category:19th-century American educators]]
[[Category:Anti-Catholic activists]]
[[Category:National Education Association people]]
[[Category:19th-century Baptist ministers from the United States]]
[[Category:Franklin College (Indiana) alumni]]
[[Category:Burials at Mount Hope Cemetery (Rochester)]]

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