John Adams Morgan

John Adams Morgan was born on September 17, 1930, in Oyster Bay on Long Island to Henry Sturgis Morgan and Catherine Frances Lovering Adams. His mother was the daughter of Frances Lovering and Charles Francis Adams III, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Herbert Hoover,{{cite news|title=C.F. ADAMS IS DEAD; HEADED U. S. NAVY {{!}} Hoover Cabinet Aide, 87, Was Banker, Philanthropist and Civic Leader in Boston {{!}} NOTED AS YACHTSMAN {{!}} While at Helm of Resolute, He Defeated Shamrock IV - Won 3 Cups in Year|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/06/12/archives/cf-adsisdead-headed-u-s-navy-hoover-cabinet-aide-87-was-banker.html|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=June 12, 1954}} and a descendant of U.S. Presidents John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams.New York Times. "J. Pierpont's Second Son Engaged: Henry Sturgis, Harvard Junior, to Wed Miss Catherine Adams of Boston, After Graduation." June 24, 1922, p. 26. John attended the Groton School, graduating in 1949. He then attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1953.

Morgan competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, where he won a gold medal in the 6 metre class with the boat Llanoria.{{cite web |url=http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=13&sp=YAT |title=1952 Summer Olympics – Helsinki, Finland – Sailing |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070827110540/http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=13&sp=YAT |archive-date=August 27, 2007 |website=databaseOlympics.com |access-date=May 31, 2008}}{{cite Sports-Reference|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/john-morgan-2.html |title=John Morgan |access-date=June 21, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621185614/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/john-morgan-2.html |archive-date=June 21, 2015 }}

From 1956 to 1966, Morgan was a partner in Dominick & Dominick. From 1966 to 1982, he worked at Smith Barney, serving as a senior vice president in charge of the corporate finance department, and as vice chairman of Smith Barney in charge of the firm's merger and acquisition activities, a member of the executive committee and a director of Smith Barney International Inc.{{cite web|title=Morgan Joseph {{!}} The Middle Market Investment Bank|url=http://www.morganjoseph.com/brochure.pdf|publisher=Morgan Joseph & Co. Inc.|access-date=March 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006212714/http://morganjoseph.com/brochure.pdf|archive-date=October 6, 2010|url-status=usurped}}

In 1982, Morgan, the great-grandson of J. P. Morgan, established an investment banking firm known as Morgan Lewis Githens & Ahn, Inc. In 1985, it organized a leveraged buyout with the Olin Corporation, an industrial chemical concern based in Stamford, Connecticut, of Olin's Ecusta cigarette paper business.{{cite news|title=Ecusta Buyout|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/30/business/ecusta-buyout.html|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=March 30, 1985}} In 1987, the firm assisted with the acquisition of Service America Corp. from Alleco Inc., formerly Allegheny Beverage Corporation, for $450 million in cash and securities.{{cite press release|title=Morgan Lewis Githens & AHN Inc. Completes Service America Acquisition with General Electric Credit Corporation Funding|url=http://www.sawayasegalas.com/resources/news/19871203_pr_Morgan_Lewis_Githens_Acquisition.aspx|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=PR Newswire|date=December 3, 1987}}

In 2001, the firm and Morgan's broker-dealer license, was bought by the newly established MLGA Holdings.{{cite news|title=Morgan Lewis Githens purchased by investment group|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2001/11/26/daily24.html|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=Nashville Business Journal|date=November 28, 2001}} Morgan, along with Fred Joseph (1937–2009), the former president and chief executive officer of the investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert during the 1980s, co-founded the new entity, which became known as Morgan Joseph LLC in 2002,{{cite news|last1=Daverman|first1=Richard|title=MLGA changes name {{!}} Nashville Post|url=http://www.nashvillepost.com/home/article/20444349/mlga-changes-name|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=Nashville Post|date=May 15, 2002|language=en}} sought to create a high-yield business for mid-size companies and take advantage of investment bankers who were laid off during the technology stock bubble of 2000.{{cite news|last1=Bloomberg News|title=One more PE firm gets into broker-dealer biz {{!}} Drexel renunion as Leon Black's Apollo's buys into Morgan Joseph TriArtisan; fees the key|url=http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20110412/FREE/110419985/one-more-pe-firm-gets-into-broker-dealer-biz|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=Investment News|date=April 12, 2011}} After the new firm was established, Morgan served as chairman of the board of directors of Morgan Lewis.{{cite book|last1=Whiteside|first1=R.|last2=Bricault|first2=G.|last3=Carr|first3=S.|title=The International Corporate 1000: A Directory of Who Runs The World's 1000 Leading Corporations 1987 Edition|date=December 6, 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9789400932432|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3YXpCAAAQBAJ&q=Morgan+Lewis+Githens+%26+Ahn%2C+Inc&pg=PA319|access-date=March 8, 2017|language=en}}

In December 2010, Morgan Joseph LLC merged with Tri-Artisan Partners LLC to form Morgan Joseph TriArtisan Group, Inc.{{cite news|title=Morgan Joseph LLC and Tri-Artisan Partners LLC Combine Forces Through Merger of Parent Companies Into Newly Formed Joint Holding Company|url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110103005267/en/Morgan-Joseph-LLC-Tri-Artisan-Partners-LLC-Combine|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=BusinessWire|date=January 3, 2011|language=en}} In April 2011, Apollo Global Management invested in Morgan Joseph TriArtisan, and registered as a brokerage firm to find clients and deals for its buyout and hedge funds.

From 1969, Morgan served as a director of Upham & Co., Inc. From 1989 until January 1998, he was a director of TriMas Corporation until it was acquired by Metaldyne Corporation. He then served as a director of Metaldyne from 1984 until its recapitalization in November 2000. As of 2001, he was a director of Furnishings International Inc. and a trustee of the Provident Loan Society of New York. He was also a director of the Morgan Library & Museum.{{cite web|title=John A. Morgan: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=1438348&privcapId=1214561&previousCapId=272910&previousTitle=FlightSafety%20International%20Inc.|website=Bloomberg|publisher=Bloomberg|access-date=March 8, 2017}}

Morgan was married five times:

In 1953, he married his first wife, Elizabeth Robbins Choate (1953–1957), the daughter of Robert Burnett Choate and the sister of Robert B. Choate Jr.{{cite news|title=MISS CHOATE WED TO JOHN A. MORGAN {{!}} Christ Church in Hamilton Mass., Setting for Marriage ---Seven Attend the Bride|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1953/06/07/archives/miss-choate-wed-to-john-1-orguq-christ-church-in-hamilton-mass.html|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=June 7, 1953}}

• Before their divorce in 1957, they had John Adams Morgan Jr.

His second marriage was in 1962, to Tania Goss, an alumna of the Ethel Walker School and Vassar College who was the daughter of Natalie Holbrook and Chauncey Porter Goss (d. 1964){{cite news|title=CHAUNCEY P. GOSS, 61 SCOVILL EXECUTIVE|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/29/chauncey-p-goss-61-scovill-executive.html|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=October 29, 1964}} of Middlebury, Connecticut.{{cite news|title=Miss Tania Goss Bride Of John Adams Morgan|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C03E4DA173DE532A2575BC1A9649C946391D6CF&legacy=true|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=February 18, 1962}}

• in 1964 they had a son, Chauncey Goss Morgan,{{cite news|title=N. F. Gyurkey Weds Mrs. Morgan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/15/archives/n-f-gyurkey-weds-mrs-morgan.html?_r=0|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=April 15, 1971}} who had a career in management primarily of manufacturing businesses.{{cite web|title=Chauncey G. Morgan: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=307580801&privcapId=3474348&previousCapId=3474348&previousTitle=Senet,%20Inc.|website=Bloomberg|publisher=Bloomberg|access-date=March 8, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Management Team – Senet|url=http://www.senetco.com/management-team/|website=www.senetco.com|access-date=March 8, 2017}}

His third marriage was to Anne Chute in 1992. {{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole sentence|date=May 2021}}

In the late 1990s, he met his fourth wife, Sonja Tremont, now known as one of the stars of the Bravo television show, The Real Housewives of New York City. Morgan and Tremont were said to have met at San Pietro, an Italian restaurant in New York City on Madison Avenue where she was a hostess.{{cite news|last1=Columbia|first1=David Patrick|last2=Hirsch|first2=Jeffrey|title=Room to grow|url=http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/social-diary/2011/room-to-grow|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=New York Social Diary|date=August 1, 2011|language=en}} After running into each other again in Aspen, they had dinner together and later that night, he proposed to her. They were married a few months later in 1998.

• Before their divorce seven years later in 2006, they had one daughter together,{{cite news|title=Who Is Sonja Morgan's Ex-Husband, Millionaire John Adams Morgan?|url=http://2paragraphs.com/2015/06/who-is-sonja-morgans-ex-husband-millionaire-john-adams-morgan/|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=2paragraphs.com|date=June 16, 2015}}{{cite news|last1=Stadtmiller|first1=Mandy|title=Let them eat cake!|url=https://nypost.com/2011/04/07/let-them-eat-cake-3/|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=New York Post|date=April 7, 2011}} Quincy Adams Morgan.{{cite news|last1=Koerner|first1=Allyson|title=Sonja Morgan's Daughter Quincy Adams Morgan Is Following In Her Mother's Fashion Footsteps|url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/154008-sonja-morgans-daughter-quincy-adams-morgan-is-following-in-her-mothers-fashion-footsteps|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=Bustle.com|date=April 13, 2016}}

His fifth wife was Connie H. Morgan, to whom he was married from 2018 until his death in 2025. They did not share any children.{{cite news|title=Sonja Morgan Marriage to Ex-Husband John Adams Morgan Put on Blast on RHONY|url=https://heavy.com/entertainment/2018/04/sonja-morgan-ex-husband-john-adams/|access-date=May 8, 2018|work=Heavy.com|date=April 25, 2018}} {{Dead link|date=February 2025 |fix-attempted=yes |url=}}

Morgan owned Caritas Island, a 3.5 acre private island compound off the coast of Stamford, Connecticut with a 26-room, 14,000 square foot home originally built in 1906.{{cite news|last1=David|first1=Mark|title=UPDATE: Sonja Tremont-Morgan|url=https://variety.com/2013/dirt/real-estalker/update-sonja-tremont-morgan-1201235462/|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=Variety|date=April 15, 2013}} In 2011, Morgan listed the island for sale for $18.9 million.{{cite news|title=USA: "Real Housewife" Sonja Morgan's Ex-Husband Selling Private Island in CT|url=http://www.privateislandnews.com/usa-real-housewife-sonja-morgan%E2%80%99s-ex-husband-selling-private-island-in-ct/|access-date=March 8, 2017|work=Private Island News|date=July 21, 2011}}

Morgan died on 23 January 2025, at the age of 94.{{cite web |title=John Morgan Obituary |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/john-morgan-obituary?id=57500712 |access-date=11 February 2025}}

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