{{Short description|American judge}} {{Use American English|date=May 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Philip Hicky Morgan |image = Philip Hickey Morgan.jpg |office = 41st United States Minister to Mexico |term_start = January 26, 1880 |term_end = June 6, 1885 |predecessor = John W. Foster |successor = Henry R. Jackson |president = Rutherford B. Hayes |office2 = Judge of the International Tribunal |term_start2 = 1876 |term_end2 = 1880 |predecessor2 = None (position created) |successor2 = Elbert E. Farman |office3 = Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court |term_start3 = 1873 |term_end3 = 1876 |predecessor3 = John H. Kennard |successor3 = John E. Leonard |office4 = United States Attorney for the District of Louisiana |term_start4 = 1869 |term_end4 = 1870 |predecessor4 = Samuel H. Torrey |successor4 = Alanson B. Long |term_start5 = 1866 |term_end5 = 1867 |predecessor5 = Samuel H . Torrey |successor5 = Samuel H. Torrey |birth_date = {{birth date|1825|11|9|mf=y}} |birth_place = Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1900|8|12|1825|11|9|mf=y}} |death_place = New York, New York, U.S. |resting_place = Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |party = Republican |spouse = Beatrice Leslie Ford (m. 1852-1900, his death) |children = 9 |profession = Lawyer }}
'''Philip H. Morgan''' (November 9, 1825 – August 12, 1900) was an attorney, jurist, and diplomat from Louisiana who remained loyal to the Union during the American Civil War. A Republican, among the offices in which he served were Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court (1873-1877), Judge of the International Tribunal in Alexandria, Egypt (1878-1880), and Minister to Mexico (1880-1885).
==Biography== Philip Hicky Morgan (sometimes spelled "Hickey") was born in Baton Rouge on August 9, 1825,<ref name="Times-Democrat">{{cite news |date=August 14, 1900 |title=Death Notice: Philip H. Morgan, New York |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10730863/philip-h-morgan-obituary/ |work=The Times-Democrat |location=New Orleans, LA |page=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> a son of Thomas Gibbes (sometimes spelled "Gibbs") Morgan and the former Eliza Ann McKennan.<ref name="LAHistory">{{cite web |url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-m/ |title=Dictionary of Louisiana Biography |website=LA History.org |publisher=Louisiana Historical Association |location=Baton Rouge, LA |access-date=June 20, 2020 |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924043630/https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-m/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was named for Colonel Philip Hicky, a Louisiana plantation owner and friend of his father.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Jeffrey |editor1-first=Katherine Bentley |date=2016 |title=Two Civil Wars: The Curious Shared Journal of a Baton Rouge Schoolgirl and a Union Sailor on the USS Essex |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MjWUCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 |location=Baton Rouge, LA |publisher=Louisiana State University Press |page=14 |isbn=978-0-8071-6226-2 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He was educated locally and then attended the University of Paris in France from 1841 to 1846.<ref name="LAHistory"/> He was fluent in several languages, including French and Spanish, and translated Louisiana's civil code into both languages.<ref>{{cite news |editor1-last=Leslie |editor1-first=Frank |date=February 21, 1880 |title=Hon. Philip H. Morgan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1EJaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA461 |work=Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper |location=New York, NY |page=461 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
Morgan joined the military for the Mexican–American War and attained the rank of first lieutenant as a member of Company K, 1st Louisiana Volunteer Militia Regiment.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.Fold3.com |title=Mexican War Service Record Index, Philip H. Morgan |website=Fold 3 |publisher=Ancestry.com |location=Lehi, UT |access-date=June 20, 2020 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> After attaining admission to the bar, he joined his father's law practice in Baton Rouge in 1848.<ref name="LAHistory"/> In 1853, he relocated his practice to New Orleans and continued there until the 1870s.<ref name="LAHistory"/>
Morgan was a judge of the 2nd District Court of Louisiana from 1853 to 1857.<ref name="LAHistory"/> During the American Civil War, Morgan remained loyal to the Union.<ref name="LAHistory"/> After the war, President Andrew Johnson nominated him as the U.S. attorney in New Orleans.<ref name="LAHistory"/> He served from 1866 to 1867, but left office after the United States Senate did not approve the nomination.<ref name="LAHistory"/> The appointment was made again by Johnson's successor, Ulysses S. Grant. The Senate approved, and Morgan served from 1869 to 1870.<ref name="LAHistory"/>
From 1873 to 1876, Morgan was an associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.<ref name="Times-Democrat"/> In 1876, he became judge of the International Tribunal in Alexandria, Egypt, an appointment that bridged the Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes administrations.<ref name="Times-Democrat"/> President Hayes named him Minister to Mexico, a position that he held from January 26, 1880 to June 6, 1885.<ref name="Times-Democrat"/>
After the assignment to Mexico, Morgan practiced law in New York City from 1885 to 1900.<ref name="LAHistory"/> He died in New York City and was interred at Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.<ref name="Times-Democrat"/>
==Family== In 1852, Morgan married Beatrice Ford (1826-1905), a native of Baton Rouge.<ref name="Picayune">{{cite news |date=August 14, 1900 |title=Ex-Minister Morgan Dies in New York |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21599358/obituary-of-philip-hickey-morgan/ |work=The Daily Picayune |location=New Orleans, LA |page=12 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> They were the parents of nine children, five of whom survived to adulthood.<ref name="LAHistory"/>
Morgan was the grandfather of Harry Hays Morgan Jr.,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/family-ties-kilpatrick-part-ii/ |title=Family Ties – Kilpatrick Part II |last=Smeltzer |first=Harry |date=April 28, 2008 |website=Bull Runnings: A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle |publisher=Harry Smeltzer |location=Pittsburgh, PA |access-date=June 20, 2020 |ref={{sfnRef|Smeltzer}}}}</ref> great-grandfather of Gloria Vanderbilt{{sfn|Smeltzer}} and great-great-grandfather of Anderson Cooper.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2014/01/sarah-morgan-after-war.html |title=Sarah Morgan After the War |last=Brackman |first=Barbara |date=January 4, 2014 |website=Civil War Quilts |publisher=Barbara Brackman |access-date=June 20, 2020 |ref={{sfnRef|Brackman}}}}</ref> In addition, he was the grand-uncle of Cecil Morgan.{{sfn|Brackman}}
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==External links== *{{find a Grave|21010839}}
==Additional reading== * "Philip Hickey Morgan" (middle name misspelled), ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', Vol. 1 (1988), p. 582 * "Philip Morgan," ''Dictionary of American Biography'', XIII * J.M. Callahan, ''American Foreign Policy in Mexican Relations'' (1932)
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