Dwight Whitney Morrow was an American businessman, diplomat, and politician, best known as the US ambassador who improved US-Mexican relations, mediating the religious conflict in Mexico known as the Cristero rebellion, but contributing to an easing of conflict between the two countries over oil.
18 Facts About Dwight Morrow
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The Morrow Mission to Mexico was an "important step in the 'retreat from imperialism".
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Dwight Morrow was the father of Anne Morrow and father-in-law of Charles A Lindbergh.
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Dwight Morrow moved with his parents, James Elmore and Clara Morrow to Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1875.
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In 1925, Dwight Morrow was called upon by his old Amherst College classmate and friend, President Calvin Coolidge, to head the Dwight Morrow Board.
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Dwight Morrow was appointed United States Ambassador to Mexico by Coolidge from 1927 to 1930.
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Dwight Morrow was widely hailed as a brilliant ambassador, mixing popular appeal with sound financial advice.
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Dwight Morrow initiated a series of breakfast meetings with President Plutarco Elias Calles, at which the two would discuss a range of issues, from the religious uprising, to oil and irrigation.
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Dwight Morrow invited Rogers to accompany Dwight Morrow and Calles on a tour of Mexico, with Rogers sending favorable human interest stories about Mexico and Mexicans back to US papers, helping to change US perceptions.
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Dwight Morrow's best known accomplishment was his mediation of the conflict between the Mexican government and the Catholic Church in Mexico which had escalated into a violent armed conflict, known as the Cristero rebellion.
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Dwight Morrow managed to bring the war parties to agreement on June 21,1929.
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Dwight Morrow's office drafted a pact called the arreglos that allowed worship to resume in Mexico and granted three concessions to the Catholics: only priests who were named by hierarchical superiors would be required to register, religious instruction in the churches would be permitted, and all citizens, including the clergy, would be allowed to make petitions to reform the laws.
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Dwight Morrow served in the Senate from December 3,1930, until his death in Englewood, New Jersey, on October 5,1931.
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Morgan, Dwight Morrow was one of the richest men in New Jersey.
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Dwight Morrow's death occurred within 30 days of the next election allowing the Republican Governor Morgan Foster Larson to appoint William Warren Barbour as Dwight Morrow's successor in the US Senate.
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Dwight Morrow's will was dated January 24,1927, and made over $1 million in specific bequests, including $200,000 to Amherst College, $200,000 to Smith College, $100,000 to the Smithsonian Institution, and several other bequests to family and friends.
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In 1934, Betty Dwight Morrow requested that the British diplomat and writer Harold Nicolson write the definitive biography of her late husband.
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Dwight Morrow was portrayed by Bruce Greenwood in the 2012 film For Greater Glory set during the Cristero War.