Patricia Morgan | |
|---|---|
| Minority Leader of the Rhode Island House of Representatives | |
| In office January 7, 2017 –October 4, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Brian Newberry |
| Succeeded by | Blake Filippi |
| Member of the Rhode IslandHouseofRepresentatives from the 26th district | |
| Assumed office January 3,2021 | |
| Preceded by | James Jackson |
| In office January 3,2011 –January 3,2019 | |
| Preceded by | William Murphy |
| Succeeded by | James Jackson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Patricia Lazar [1] August 25,1950 Ohio,U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | Mississippi State University Kent State University (BA) Rhode Island College (MEd) |
Patricia L. Morgan [2] (born August 25,1950) is an American politician and Republican member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives representing district 26 since 2021. [3] She formerly represented district 26 from 2011 until 2019,where she chose not to run again. She became the first female minority leader of the Rhode Island House of Representatives in 2017,after she was chosen by the Republican caucus members on November 15,2016,when former minority leader Brian Newberry stepped down from the position. [4]
Morgan ran for Governor of Rhode Island in the 2018 election. [5] She lost the primary to Cranston Mayor and 2014 Republican candidate Allan Fung.
In 2020,Morgan ran for the state House of Representatives again and unseated incumbent Democrat James Jackson. [6] In 2024,she won the Republican primary for Rhode Island's Class I U.S. Senate seat,she lost to Democratic incumbent Sheldon Whitehouse in the general election. [7]
Morgan was one of three daughters of Thomas Lazar,a Polish-American World War II veteran,and Doris Lane,a war bride from England. They had married in 1944. In 1958,her father changed his surname to Lane because he'd been bullied as a child over his heritage and didn't want his daughters to suffer the same experience. She grew up in Canal Fulton,Ohio,the youngest of three daughters. She graduated class valedictorian from Northwest High School. She then married her boyfriend,Bernie Mulligan,who was a Navy aviator. [8]
Morgan attended Mississippi State University,earned her BA degree from Kent State University,where she witnessed the Kent State Shootings in 1970,her MEd from Rhode Island College,and principal's certificate from Providence College. [9]
After graduating from college,she worked as a special education teacher for several years. She moved to Rhode Island when her husband was stationed there in 1976. She resumed her teaching career in 1985. After a decade of teaching there,she joined the firm of Salomon Smith Barney as a financial advisor. [10]
Morgan complained on 28 December 2021 via Twitter that a friendship she had with an African American friend had become "hostile and unpleasant." Morgan largely attributed this hostility to efforts by teachers and the political left's support for critical race theory. [19] [20] [21] Her tweet has been condemned by both Democrats and the GOP,and the BLM RI PAC,the political arm of the Black Lives Matter movement in Rhode Island,has called for her removal from committee assignments in the RI General Assembly. [22]
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