Hugh Jackson Morgan

Infobox Scientist
name=Hugh Jackson Morgan
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birth_date = 1893
birth_place = Nashville, Tennessee
death_date = 1961
death_place = Nashville, Tennessee
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known_for = world-renowned internist, professor
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alma_mater = Vanderbilt University Johns Hopkins University
work_institution = School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University
religion = Southern Methodist
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Early life and education

Hugh J. Morgan was born into a prominent Nashville, Tennessee family from Alabama in 1893, and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1914. The Jackson family's ancestral home, Forks of Cypress, remains a landmark in Florence, Alabama. A scholar and athlete, he was a prominent member of the Vanderbilt varsity football team and was selected as an All Southern Center.

Academia

After two years at Vanderbilt Medical School, he transferred to Johns Hopkins University and received his doctorate in 1918. As a medical student, Dr. Morgan served in the prestigious Hopkins unit during World War I, and was stationed primarily in France. After the war, Dr. Morgan professed at both Hopkins and the Rockefeller Institute before returning home to Nashville in acceptance of an offered position as Chair of the Department of Medicine.

Second World War

During World War II, Dr. Morgan entered the U.S. Army as a Brigadier General, and moved for a short period to Washington, DC to work in the Pentagon. He was appointed Chief Medical Consultant to the Surgeon General. This position allowed him to oversee and direct the operations of all military medical personnel throughout the war.

Legacy

A former colleague wrote of Dr. 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." Dr. Hugh Morgan's contributions to Vanderbilt, The U.S. Army, and indeed the world, were many. Perhaps his greatest achievement at Vanderbilt alone was establishing an outstanding department of internal medicine. Dr. Morgan was also a devoted Freemason.

Physician and General Hugh J. Morgan died in his Nashville, Tennessee home in 1961 of cancer.