Background
Hugh J. Morgan was born into a prominent Nashville, Tennessee family in 1893 and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1914.
Hugh J. Morgan was born into a prominent Nashville, Tennessee family in 1893 and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1914.
The Jackson family"s ancestral home, Forks of Cypress, remains a landmark in Florence, Alabama. Morgan played on the 1911 and 1912 SIAA championship teams. He was nominated though not selected for an Associated Press All-Time Southeast 1869-1919 era team
After two years at Vanderbilt Medical School, he transferred to Johns Hopkins University and received his doctorate in 1918.
As a medical student, Doctor Morgan served in the prestigious Hopkins unit during World War I, and was stationed primarily in France. After the war, Doctor Morgan professed at both Hopkins and the Rockefeller Institute before returning home to Nashville in 1925 to accept an offered position as Associate Professor of Medicine.
Doctor Morgan became Chair of the Department of Medicine in 1935. In this capacity Doctor Morgan established Vanderbilt"s During, Doctor Morgan entered the United States. Army as a Brigadier General, appointed Chief Medical Consultant to the Surgeon General.
This position entailed the oversight and direction of field military medical personnel throughout the European theater.
Doctor Morgan is honored namesake of multiple chairs and endowments, most notably the Hugh J Morgan Chair in Medicine. Morgan died in his Nashville, Tennessee home in 1961 of cancer. Doctor Morgan"s son, Morgan Junior, is a former chairman of Sonat.
Doctor Morgan"s son Robert P. Morgan is a composer and theorist on the faculty of Yale University.
A scholar and athlete, he was a prominent member of the Vanderbilt varsity football team and was selected as an All Southern center.
A former colleague wrote of Doctor Morgan, "He was a charming man with firm convictions. He was courteous, gallant, and had a warm twinkling humor. He was delicately sensitive to and careful of the smallest human weaknesses and respected the well-grounded opinions of others" Doctor Hugh Morgan"s contributions to Vanderbilt and The United States. Army were many.