David Morgan (judge)
{{Short description|American judge}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = David Morgan
|image = David E. Morgan (1849–1912).png
|office = Chief Justice of North Dakota
|term_start = 1906
|term_end = 1911
|predecessor = Newton C. Young
|successor = Burleigh F. Spalding
|office1 = Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court
|term_start1 = 1901
|term_end1 = 1911
|predecessor1 = Joseph Bartholomew
|successor1 = Andrew A. Bruce
|office2 = Judge of the North Dakota District Courts
|term_start2 =
|term_end2 =
|office3 = State's Attorney of Ramsey County, North Dakota
|term_start3 =
|term_end3 =
|office4 = Clerk of the Sauk County, Wisconsin Courts
|term_start4 =
|term_end4 =
|birth_date = {{birth date|1849|11|08}}
|birth_place = Coalport, Ohio
|death_date = {{death date and age|1912|05|11|1849|11|08}}
|death_place = Banning, California
|alma_mater =
|signature = Signature of David E. Morgan (1849–1912).png
}}
David E. Morgan (November 8, 1849 – May 11, 1912) was an American judge who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of North Dakota from 1901 to 1911.
Early life and education
Morgan was born on November 8, 1849, in Coalport, Ohio.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b080AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA133-IA1 |title=History of North Dakota: Embracing a Relation of the History of the State from the Earliest Times Down to the Present Day, Including the Biographies of the Builders of the Commonwealth |editor-first=W. B. |editor-last=Hennessy |publisher=The Bismarck Tribune Company |pages=133–134 |date=1910 |access-date=2024-09-16 |via=Google Books}} At a young age, he moved to the state of Wisconsin with his parents. He attended common schools there, being educated at Spring Green Academy and Plattville State Normal School. He also took a year-long special course at Wisconsin State University.{{cite web |title=David Morgan |url=https://www.ndcourts.gov/david-morgan |website=www.ndcourts.gov |publisher=North Dakota Court System |access-date=15 October 2022}}
Career
After leaving Wisconsin State University, Morgan taught school in Ironton, Wisconsin. He served later as a principal of a school in Chilton.
Morgan was elected to serve as the Sauk County clerk of court. During his terms in this position, he read law with a number of judges. He was then admitted to practice law in 1879.
In 1881, Morgan resigned as clerk of court, moving to practice law in the Dakota Territory. In 1883, he moved to Devil's Lake, where he served for four years as the state's attorney for Ramsey County. He, thereafter, served for eleven years as a judge of the District Courts of North Dakota.
After his eleven years on the state's district courts, Morgan was elected in 1900 to the North Dakota Supreme Court. He entered the bench at the age of 51, and served for roughly ten years and eight months before resigning on August 31, 1911, due to poor health. After he retired, he moved to Banning, California, where he died on May 11, 1912.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-tribune-judge-david-e-morgan-dies/155424782/ |title=Judge David E. Morgan Dies |newspaper=The Minneapolis Sunday Tribune |place=Fargo, North Dakota |page=1 |date=1912-05-12 |access-date=2024-09-16 |via=Newspapers.com}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.ndcourts.gov/david-morgan North Dakota Supreme Court biography]
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Category:19th-century American judges
Category:Justices of the North Dakota Supreme Court
Category:North Dakota state court judges
Category:People from Middleport, Ohio
Category:American school principals
Category:Educators from Wisconsin
Category:People from Sauk County, Wisconsin
Category:State's attorneys in North Dakota
Category:Wisconsin State University alumni
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