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Robert Knight Morgan (July 31, 1918 – May 15, 2004) was a colonel and a Command Pilot in the United States Air Force from Asheville, North Carolina.During World War II, while a captain in the United States Army Air Forces, Morgan was a bomber pilot with the 8th Air Force in the European theater and the aircraft commander of the famous B-17 Flying Fortress, Memphis Belle, flying 25 missions.
Robert J. Morgan was born on March 25, 1826, in LaGrange, Georgia. [1] His father, John E. Morgan, was a planter, banker, merchant, and Confederate official during the American Civil War. [1] His mother, Mary T. Brown, was the niece of Jarrell Beasley, who served in the Georgia Legislature. [1] Morgan was of English descent on his paternal side ...
General Robert Morgan Evans (February 17, 1782 – December 14, 1842 [1] [2]) was born in Frederick County, Virginia. In 1803 in the town of Paris, Kentucky , he was married to Jane Trimble, a sister of Judge Robert Trimble of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Robert Morgan (British politician) (1880–1960), British Conservative Party politician; Robert Dale Morgan (1912–2002), U.S. federal judge; Robert Burren Morgan (1925–2016), U.S. Senator from North Carolina; Robert Lewis Morgan (born 1952), American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly; Robert Nesta Morgan (born 1981 ...
In 1996, Colonel Robert K. Morgan, pilot of the original Memphis Belle, received the opportunity to fly in this aircraft, while it served with the Georgia Air National Guard's 116th Bomb Wing at Robins AFB, Georgia. [35] A General Dynamics FB-111A Aardvark (AF Ser. No. 68-0267) was also nicknamed Memphis Belle II for a period during the 1980s.
Morgan ran for election to the US House of Representatives twice as a Federalist. He lost in 1794, but won in 1796 with 70% of the vote by defeating Democratic-Republican Robert Rutherford. Morgan served a single term from 1797 to 1799. Tomb of Daniel Morgan in the Mount Hebron Cemetery. He died at his daughter's home in Winchester on July 6, 1802.
Robert Gould Shaw (October 10, 1837 – July 18, 1863) was an American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Born into an abolitionist family from the Boston upper class , he accepted command of the first all- black regiment (the 54th Massachusetts ) in the Northeast.
When Colonel Robert Crittenden Newton was in command, it went by its official title of 5th Arkansas Cavalry. Colonel Newton was succeeded in December 1863 by Col. Thomas J. Morgan, formerly captain of Company C. [ 2 ] Under Colonel Morgan's command, the regiment went by the designation 8th Arkansas Cavalry; but it was also known on occasion as ...