Edward M. Morgan

This article is about the post master. For the Canadian professor, see Ed Morgan (professor).

Edward M. Morgan (1855 - January 9, 1925) was the Postmaster of New York City for the first delivery of airmail by Earle Lewis Ovington.^[1][2]

Edward M. Morgan
Morgan in 1907
Born	1855 (1855)
Died	January 9, 1925(1925-01-09) (aged 69–70) Brooklyn, New York
Occupation(s)	Postman, Postmaster
Employer	United States Post Office Department
Title	Postmaster of New York City
Term	1907-1917, 1921-1925
Predecessor	William Russell Willcox
Successor	John J. Kiely

Edward M. Morgan, Frank Harris Hitchcock, and Earle Lewis Ovington

Edward M. Morgan, Frank Harris Hitchcock, and Earle Lewis Ovington

Biography

He was born in 1855. Morgan started off as a letter carrier, and was appointed Postmaster of New York City by President Theodore Roosevelt on August 14, 1907, succeeding William R. Willcox, who had resigned to head the Public Service Board. Thomas F. Murphy was appointed as the assistant Postmaster.^[3] On December 13, 1911, President William Howard Taft reappointed him to another term of office.^[4]

He died on January 9, 1925, at the Lutheran Hospital in Brooklyn, New York City.^[1]