Morrow, Dwight W. (Dwight Whitney), 1873-1931

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Epithet: US senator and diplomatist

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Lawyer with Simpson, Thacher & Reed, 1905-14; banker with J.P. Morgan & Co., 1914-27; Ambassador to Mexico, 1927-30; U.S. Senator from New Jersey, 1930-31; trustee of educational and philanthropic institutions. Married Elizabeth Reeve Cutter; four children: Elisabeth, Anne, Dwight Jr., Constance.

From the description of Morrow papers 1877-1954 (bulk 1900-1931). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22800009 1873 Jan 11 Born in Huntington, West Virginia 1885 1887 Attended high school in Allegheny, Pennsylvannia 1887 1891 Worked as clerk and errand boy in a Pittsburgh coal company 1891 1895 Attended Amherst College, Amherst (MA) 1895 Jun 26 A. B. Amherst College, magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa; Beta Theta Pi; Literary Monthly; Hardy Prize Debate; Bond Prize (oration) 1895 1896 Worked as apprentice in Scandrett & Bartlett, a Pittsburgh law firm 1896 99 Attended Columbia University Law School 1899 Jun LL.B. Columbia University (Law School) 1898 Sep Sworn in as Attorney at Law of Pennsylvania 1899 Jun Sworn in as Attorney at Law of New York 1899 1914 Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, a New York law firm 1899 1905 Worked as clerk 1905 Jan 1 Made partner 1903 Jun 16 Married Elizabeth Reeve Cutter 1904 Mar 17 Elisabeth R. Morrow born 1906 Jun 22 Anne S. Morrow born 1908 Nov 28 Dwight W. Morrow, Jr. born 1913 Jun 27 Constance C. Morrow born 1914 1927 J.P. Morgan & Co. 1913 Dec 30 Invited to join banking firm 1914 Apr 15 Entered offices of J.P. Morgan & Co. 1914 Jul 1 Made Partner with J.P. Morgan & Co., New York; Drexel & Company, Philadelphia; Morgan Grenfell & Company, London; and Morgan, Harjes & Company, Paris 1916 Negotiated Anglo-French $500,000,000 loan 1921 Represented an international banking syndicate for $50,000,000 loan to the Cuban government 1927 Sep 30 Resigned from J.P. Morgan & Co. 1915 Sep 12 Met with Financial Commissions from Great Britain and France 1916 31 Life Trustee of Amherst College 1920 Jun: Chairman of the Finance Committee 1920-27: Chairman of the Executive Committee 1921: Chairman of the Centennial Committee 1925: Morrow Dormitory donated 1926 Dec 21: Offered Presidency of Amherst College 1917 1918 New Jersey Prison Inquiry Commission 1917 Jan 26: Appointed to Commission by Gov. Edge 1917 Jul 25: Named Chairman of the Commission 1918 Mar 12: Named Chairman of State Board of Charities and Corrections (Board later retitled State Board of Control of Institutions and Agencies) 1919 Oct 26: Awarded medal by National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor 1920 Mar 24: Resigned as Chairman 1922 Mar 22: Resigned as member of the Board 1918 Advisor to American Shipping Mission, Allied Maritime Transport Council (Imports Committee) 1918 Director of the War Savings Commission of New Jersey 1919 The Society of Free States published 1919 Awarded Distinguished Service Medal 1923 Anson Morse's Parties and Party Leaders published, introduction by Morrow 1925 Sep 1925 Nov Chairman of the President's Aircraft Board 1926 Jan 19 Named Director of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics 1927 1930 Ambassador to Mexico 1927 Sep 20: Commissioned by President Coolidge as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Mexico 1930 Sep 30: Resigned as Ambassador to Mexico 1928 Jan Delegate to Sixth International Convention of American States (Pan American Conference) in Havana, Cuba 1929 May Regional Plan of New York and its Environs published 1930 London Naval Conference 1930 Apr: Treaty draft completed 1929 Dec 17 1931 Mar 3 Filled US senatorial vacancy left by Walter E. Edge 1930 1931 U.S. Senator from New Jersey 1930 Nov 4 Elected U.S. Senator from New Jersey for term commencing March 1931. 1931 Jul 20 Conference at White House on International Debts 1931 Oct 5 Died in his home, Englewood (NJ) 1920 Jun 16 LL.D. University of Rochester 1925 Jun 16 LL.D. Princeton University 1926 Jun 16 LL.D. University of Pennsylvania 1926 Jun 21 LL.D. Williams College 1927 Jun 22 LL.D. Yale University 1928 Jun 10 LL.D. Brown University 1928 Jun 22 LL.D. Harvard 1931 Jun 16 LL.D. Dartmouth College 1931 Jun 18 LL.D. Bowdoin College

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Distinguished Service Medal (USA) Chevalier of the Legion of Honor (France) Officer of the Crown of Italy Chevalier of the Royal Battalion of George the First (Greece)

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Amherst College Bankers Trust Company The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Commonwealth Fund Corporation Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences Englewood Civic Association General Electric Company Hampton Institute Institute of International Education National Aeronautic Association [for New Jersey] National Institute of Social Sciences New Jersey Society of Sons of American Revolution New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor Palisades Trust & Guaranty Co. Phi Beta Kappa Russell Sage Foundation Regional Plan of New York and its Environs School of Public and International Affairs Princeton University [Advisory Board] Smithsonian Institution Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey Union Theological Seminary Welfare Council of New York City From the guide to the Morrow Papers, 1877-1954, 1900-1931, (Amherst College Archives and Special Collections)

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