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Harcourt Morgan was born on August 31, 1867, near Kerwood in Adelaide Township, Ontario, the second son and fourth of eight children of John Morgan, a prosperous livestock farmer, and Rebecca Truman. The grandparents of Harcourt Morgan (he did not use his first name) were Irish Protestants who had come to North America in search of economic opportunity.
Morgan attended Strathroy Collegiate Institute, a nearby preparatory school, and Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, an institution affiliated with the University of Toronto, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture in 1889.
Harcourt Morgan was awarded an honorary doctorate from Emory and Henry College.
Immediately after graduating, Morgan moved to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, to teach entomology and work in the university's agricultural experiment station. In his special fields, entomology and crop pest control, he soon became one of the region's leading experts, gaining wide recognition for his campaigns against the boll weevil, the cattle tick, and the army worm.
For several summers during the 1890's Morgan pursued graduate work at Cornell University under John Henry Comstock, but he did not receive an advanced degree.
Morgan moved in 1905 to the University of Tennessee, as professor of entomology and zoology and as director of the local agricultural experiment station. Rising rapidly in the school's administration, he became dean of the college of agriculture in 1913 and president of the university in 1919.
His election in 1927 as president of the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities reflected a widening reputation. In Morgan's fourteen years as chief executive of the University of Tennessee, its enrollment grew from fewer than eight hundred to more than five thousand students. He himself excelled as a manager of the university's external relations, rather than as a leader of faculty or students. He made the institution favorably known throughout the state, especially among farmers, and established a relationship with successive governors and legislators that brought generous state appropriations.
Morgan got he opportunity to put his ideas into practice, when in 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Morgan to the board of directors of the new Tennessee Valley Authority. Chosen as a progressive Southern agriculturist, he took his place on the three-man board alongside David E. Lilienthal, an able young lawyer who had served on the Wisconsin Public Service Commission; and the chairman, Arthur E. Morgan (who was no relation), a well-known engineer and the president of Antioch College. Together the three men set out to fulfill the exceptionally broad mandate of Congress concerning the development of the river valley. The only one of the directors resident in Tennessee before 1933, Harcourt Morgan occupied a pivotal position. He assumed the burden of persuading his many friends in the state that the new agency was a great benefit and not a threat. He took personal charge of the agricultural portion of the authority's program, and shaped it according to his ideas about how best to promote rural progress. Most important of all, he attempted to keep peace within the TVA's troubled hierarchy. Tactfully but consistently he sided with the aggressive David E. Lilienthal, who directed the agency's controversial power program in its successful six-year battle with private companies for control of local markets for electricity. Morgan's support gave Lilienthal's militancy a two-to-one supremacy within the board of directors. The friction culminated in 1938, when President Roosevelt dismissed the dissenting member, Chairman Arthur E. Morgan.
For the next three years, Harcourt Morgan served as chairman, finally relinquishing that post to the younger Lilienthal. Morgan remained as a director, however, until 1948, when he retired at the age of eighty. Two years after his retirement, he died on August 25, 1950, of cancer, at his home in Belfast, Tennessee, and was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Knoxville.
The president of the University of Tennessee and director of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Harcourt Morgan pursued a policy of "grass roots democracy, " working with state and local agencies to educate farmers in scientific agriculture and assure them that the TVA promoted their interests and not those of the federal government. The Progressive Farmer named him "Man of the Year" in 1940. Morgan Hall, the main building of the University of Tennessee's College of Agriculture, is named for him.
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Harcourt Morgan's evolving convictions about farming and people led him to work out a broad, elusive philosophy he called "the common mooring. " In his view, mankind had begun to interfere dangerously with the earth's ecosystems, through excessive cultivation of soil-depleting cash crops, excessive consumption of finite natural resources, and excessive migration into congested cities. For Morgan, the root sin in this ominous process was man's failure to perceive the essential and delicate unity of nature - the interdependence ("common mooring") of all life. To this concept and its ramifications he devoted much of his time as a teacher.
Quotations: "The land, the land itself. Therein lies our wealth and that of the world. "
From 1907, Harcourt Morgan served as president of the American Association of Economic Entomologists.
In 1927, Morgan became president of the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities.
In 1933, he became a member of the board of directors of the new Tennessee Valley Authority.
On June 25, 1895, Harcourt Morgan married Sara Elizabeth Fay in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They had five children.
Arthur Ernest Morgan was a civil engineer, U.S. administrator, and educator.
David Eli Lilienthal was an American attorney and public administrator, best known for his Presidential Appointment to head Tennessee Valley Authority and later the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
