Robert Dale Morgan

Judge Robert Dale Morgan

Personal

Birthday:

5/27/1912

Birthplace:

Peoria, IL

Date of Death:

5/29/2002

Place of Death:

Peoria, IL

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

Private practice, Peoria, Illinois, 1937-1942, 1946-1967
Commissioner, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois, 1938-1946
U.S. Army, 1942-1946
Mayor, Peoria, Illinois, 1953-1957

Education

Name of School:

Bradley University

Degree:

B.A.

Degree Year:

1934

Name of School - Second:

University of Chicago Law School

The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America 's great cities, Chicago offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind. Learning is participatory. Chicago does not seek to impose a single viewpoint or style of thought on its students. Instead, our faculty exposes students to contrasting views, confident in students' abilities to choose their own paths.

Degree - Second:

J.D.

Degree Year - Second:

1937

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois

Court Name:

Illinois Southern District Court

President Nominating:

Lyndon B. Johnson

Party Affiliation of President:

Democratic

Commission Date:

6/12/1967

Termination Date:

3/31/1979

Termination Reason:

Reassignment

Court Name - Second:

U. S. District Court, Central District of Illinois

Court Name - Second:

Illinois Central District Court

Commission Date - Second:

3/31/1979

Retirement from Active Service - Second:

5/28/1982

Termination Date - Second:

5/29/2002

Termination Reason - Second:

Death