Background
Morgan, Hugh Jackson was born on January 25, 1893 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Joseph Bedinger and Jean (Gibson) Morgan.
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Hugh Jackson Morgan, American physician. Served as private and First lieutenant Medical Corps, United States Army, Advertising Educational Foundation, 1917-1918; member medical advanced com to secretary of war, 1946-1948; member National Advisory Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases Council, 1954-1956; member National Advisory Heart Council 1950-1952; Club: Belle Meade Country (Nashville).
Education
Bachelor of Science, Vanderbilt University, 1914. Doctor of Medicine Johns Hopkins, 1918. Doctor of Science, University North Carolina, 1946, University of Southern California, 1953.
Career
Resident house officer Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1919-1920, assistant resident physician, 1920-1921. Instructor medicine Johns Hopkins, 1920-1921. Assistant and resident physician Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1922-1924, traveling fellow (Europe), 1924-1925.
Associate Professor medicine Vanderbilt University, 1924-1928, professor clinical medicine, 1928-1935, professor medicine also physician-in-chief Vanderbilt University Hospital, 1935-1958, professor emeritus, since 1958, trustee Vanderbilt University, since 1958, Hugh Jackson Morgan visiting professorships in medicine established in his honor, 1958.
Achievements
Membership
Served as private and First lieutenant Medical Corps, United States Army, Advertising Educational Foundation, 1917-1918. Member medical advanced com to secretary of war, 1946-1948. Member National Advisory Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases Council, 1954-1956.
Member National Advisory Heart Council 1950-1952.
Club: Belle Meade Country (Nashville).
Connections
Married Robert Ray Porter, July 22, 1924. Children: Caroline Lee (Mistress Saxon Graham), Hugh Jackson, Jean (Mistress J. Alexander Cortner), Robert Porter.
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Nationality
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Religion
Methodist
Awards
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Decorated Distinguished Service Medal, 1945., Master A.c.P. (regent since 1936, president 1947, Alfred Stengel Memorial award, 1959). Member of the American Medical Association (cons Counci National Emergency Medical Services, since 1948, Veterans Administration consultant to Central advising committee on radioisotopes to department medicine and surgery, 1947-1958), American Board Internal Medicine (vice chairman, 1947, chairman, 1948,) Association American Physicians (president 1950), Association Honorary Consultants to Army Medical Library, Society United States Medical Consultants in World World World War II, Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Association (president 1948). American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Clinical and Climatological Association (president 1953), American Heart Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Delta Theta.Decorated Distinguished Service Medal, 1945., Master A.c.P. (regent since 1936, president 1947, Alfred Stengel Memorial award, 1959). Member of the American Medical Association (cons Counci National Emergency Medical Services, since 1948, Veterans Administration consultant to Central advising committee on radioisotopes to department medicine and surgery, 1947-1958), American Board Internal Medicine (vice chairman, 1947, chairman, 1948,) Association American Physicians (president 1950), Association Honorary Consultants to Army Medical Library, Society United States Medical Consultants in World World World War II, Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Association (president 1948). American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Clinical and Climatological Association (president 1953), American Heart Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Delta Theta.