Dwight W. Morrow (1873-1931)
| 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 30Resigned from J.P. Morgan & Co. |
| 1915 |
Sep 12Met with Financial Commissions from Great
Britain and France |
| 1916-31 |
Life Trustee of Amherst College |
| 1920 Jun |
Chairman of the Finance Committee |
| 1920-1927 |
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 the Commission by Gov. Edge |
| 1917 Jul 25 |
Named Chairman of the Commission |
| 1918 Mar 2 |
Member State Board of Charities and Corrections
(successor to the Commission) |
| 1918 Mar 20 |
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 |
Director of the War Savings Commission of New
Jersey
Advisor to American Shipping Mission, Allied
Maritime Transport Council (Imports Committee)
|
| 1919 |
Awarded Distinguished Service Medal
The Society of Free States
published
|
| 1923 |
Anson Morse's
Parties and Party Leaders
published, introduction by Morrow |
| 1925 Sep-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 |
| 1930-1931 |
U.S. Senator from New Jersey |
| 1929 Dec 17 |
Filled appointment senatorial vacancy |
| 1931 Mar 3 |
left by Walter E. Edge. |
| 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) |
