of Morgan's term was served by John H. Bankhead. In April 2004, Professor Thomas Adams Upchurch summarized Morgan's career and legacy in the Alabama Review: Family and relatives As the patriarch of a powerful Southern dynasty, Morgan's extended family was especially prominent in Alabama politics and owned the First White House of the Confederacy in Montgomery. His nephew, Anthony Dickinson Sayre, served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, and Morgan's grand-niece was Jazz Age socialite Zelda Sayre, the wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald who wrote The Great Gatsby. Memorialization In 1953, Morgan was elected to membership in the Alabama Hall of Fame. John T. Morgan Academy in Selma is named for Morgan. Founded in 1965, the segregation academy originally held classes in Morgan's old house. Morgan Hall on the campus of the University of Alabama, which houses the English Department, was named for him. On December 18, 2015, Morgan's portrait was removed from the building, and in 2016 the university was pondering the results of a petition to rename the building for Harper Lee. By June 2020, the Alabama Board of Trustees had finally decided to study the names of buildings on campus and consider changing them. On September 17, 2020, they voted to remove his name from the building. A memorial arch on the grounds of the Federal Building / U.S. Courthouse in Selma honors Senators Morgan and Pettus. See also List of American Civil War generals (Confederate) List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49) References Notes Citations Works cited Further reading morganreport.org — Online images and transcriptions of the Morgan Report Alabama Hall of Fame bio External links Men of Mark in America Biography & Portrait Edmund Pettus and John Tyler Morgan, late senators from Alabama, Memorial addresses (1909) |- |- |- |- 1824 births 1907 deaths Alabama Secession Delegates of 1861 American people of Welsh descent American slave owners Confederate States Army brigadier generals Democratic Party United States senators from Alabama Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragons People from Athens, Tennessee People of Alabama in the American Civil War 1860 United States presidential electors 1876 United States presidential electors Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations American white supremacists United States senators who owned slaves People from Selma, Alabama