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Dwight Morrow

Dwight Whitney Morrow (11 January 1873-5 October 1931) was the US Senator from New Jersey (R) from 3 December 1930 to 5 October 1931, succeeding David Baird Jr. and preceding William Warren Barbour.

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Dwight Morrow was born in Huntington, West Virginia in 1873, and his family moved to Allegheny, Pennsylvania two years later. In 1913, he became a partner at J.P. Morgan & Co. in New York City, and, during World War I, he served as Director of the National War Savings Committee for the State of New Jersey. From 1927 to 1930, he served as Ambassador to Mexico under Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, helping to negotiate an end to the Cristero War. In 1930, he was elected as a Republican to the US Senate to fill the void cause by Walter Edge's resignation, succeeding acting Senator David Baird Jr.. However, Morrow himself died in office in Englewood in 1931.

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