William Duane Morgan

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William Duane Morgan
7th Ohio State Auditor
In office
January 12, 1852 – January 14, 1856
GovernorReuben Wood
William Medill
Preceded byJohn Woods
Succeeded byFrancis Mastin Wright
Personal details
Born1817
Democratic

William Duane Morgan (1817–1887) was a newspaper editor and

U.S. states of Pennsylvania and later Ohio. He was also Ohio State Auditor
1852-1856.

William Duane Morgan was born to a prominent family in Washington County, Pennsylvania. In 1837, he and his brother, Thomas Jefferson Morgan, owned and edited the Washington County Democratic newspaper Our Country.[1]

In 1840 he moved to

Republican Francis Mastin Wright for re-election.[3] He then owned the Newark Advocate in Newark, Ohio from 1856 to 1880. He died in 1887.[1]

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References

  • Bell, William Jr. (1876). Annual report of the Secretary of State to the Governor and General Assembly for the year 1875... Ohio Secretary of State.