17 Facts About Dwight Morrow

Dwight Morrow moved with his parents, James Elmore and Clara Morrow to Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1875.

Dwight Morrow served abroad as adviser to the Allied Maritime Transport Council and as a civilian member of the Military Board of Allied Supply.

Dwight Morrow was appointed United States Ambassador to Mexico by Coolidge from 1927 to 1930.

Dwight Morrow was widely hailed as a brilliant ambassador, mixing popular appeal with sound economic and financial advice to the Mexican government.

Dwight Morrow initiated a series of breakfast meetings with President Plutarco Elias Calles, at which the two would discuss a range of issues, from oil and irrigation to a religious uprising in Mexico.

Dwight Morrow invited Rogers to accompany him and Calles on a tour of Mexico, with Rogers sending favorable human-interest stories about Mexico and Mexicans back to US newspapers, helping to change US perceptions of Mexico.

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 revolt, known as the Cristero rebellion.

Dwight Morrow managed to bring the war parties to agreement on June 21,1929.

Dwight Morrow's office drafted a pact called the arreglos that permitted 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.

In 1930 Dwight Morrow was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter Evans Edge.

Dwight Morrow was elected to the American Philosophical Society that same year.

Dwight Morrow served in the Senate from December 3,1930, until his death in Englewood, New Jersey, on October 5,1931.

Morgan, Dwight Morrow was one of the richest men in New Jersey.

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.

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.

In 1934, Betty Dwight Morrow requested that the British diplomat and writer Harold Nicolson write the definitive biography of her late husband.

Dwight Morrow was portrayed by Bruce Greenwood in the 2012 film For Greater Glory set during the Cristero War.