Gerald D. Morgan

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Gerald Morgan
White House Counsel
In office
February 19, 1955 – November 5, 1958
PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower
Preceded byBernard Shanley
Succeeded byDavid Kendall
Personal details
Born(1908-12-19)December 19, 1908
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedJune 16, 1976(1976-06-16) (aged 67)
Mustique, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Political partyRepublican
EducationPrinceton University (BA)
Harvard University (LLB)

Gerald D. Morgan (December 19, 1908 – June 15, 1976) was born in New York, graduated from

House Committee On Un-American Activities
.

He was special counsel to the majority of the House in connection with labor legislation in 1947 and served as legislative counsel to the House Committee on Education and Labor, a standing committee subsequently known as the United States House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Mr, Morgan was a special consultant to the First Hoover Commission on Government Reorganization in 1947 and 1948. In 1949 he wrote "Congressional Investigations and Judicial Review: Kilbourn v. Thompson."[1]

Morgan was a member of the

Taft-Hartley Act.[5]

When President Eisenhower left office in 1961, Gerald Demuth Morgan returned to private practice. In 1967 he was an elected delegate to the Maryland Constitutional Convention held in Annapolis.

National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak). He again returned to private practice in 1973.[7]

When he died in 1976, he was a member of the Washington law firm Hamel, Park, McCabe and Saunders.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Congressional Investigations and Judicial Review: Kilbourn v. Thompson Revisited". Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Civil Rights: Citizens' Letters on the Little Rock Crisis" (PDF). Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  3. ^ Federal Records Division, National Archives and Records Administration. United States Government Organization Manual, 1957 – 1958. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office. 1957 -1958. p. 58
  4. ^ "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Cuba, Volume VI - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  5. ^ "Gerald D. Morgan Dead at 67; Helped Draft Taft‐Hartley Act". The New York Times. 16 June 1976. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  6. ^ "Maryland Constitutional Convention of 1967-1968". msa.maryland.gov. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  7. ^ "Gerald D. Morgan Dead at 67; Helped Draft Taft‐Hartley Act". The New York Times. 16 June 1976. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  8. ^ "Gerald D. Morgan Dead at 67; Helped Draft Taft‐Hartley Act". The New York Times. 16 June 1976. Retrieved 20 September 2017.

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