Morrow, Dwight W

Morrow, Dwight W

▪ American statesman
born Jan. 11, 1873, Huntington, W.Va., U.S.
died Oct. 5, 1931, Englewood, N.J.

      American lawyer, financier, and statesman.

      The son of an educator, Morrow graduated from Amherst College (1895) and Columbia Law School (1899) and then entered practice, winning a reputation in corporation law. He aided in drafting a workmen's compensation law in 1911 and in preparing a report in 1917 that led to prison reform in New Jersey. He accepted a partnership in J.P. Morgan & Co. in 1914. Among his notable achievements was the organization of the Kennecott Copper Corp.

      After the United States entered World War I, Morrow went to Europe early in 1918 as adviser to the Allied Maritime Transport Council. After the war Morrow helped Cuba solve its financial troubles. As chairman of the president's aircraft board in 1925 he aided in formulating a national military and civil aviation policy. In 1927 President Calvin Coolidge appointed him ambassador to Mexico, where he helped to settle the oil, debts, and claims problems and to restore some harmony between church and state. Morrow's work was a strong precedent for the “Good Neighbor Policy.” As a delegate to the London Naval Conference in 1930 he played a vital conciliatory role. He was elected senator from New Jersey in 1930 but attended only one session of Congress before his death.

      Anne Morrow, a daughter, married the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh in 1929.

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