Henry Sturgis Morgan Jr.

Henry Sturgis Morgan Jr. (August 10, 1924 – May 6, 2011) was a United States Navy rear admiral and maritime lawyer.

Through his father, Morgan Stanley co-founder Henry Sturgis Morgan Sr., he was a great-grandson of J. P. Morgan, founder of J.P. Morgan & Co.

Henry Sturgis Morgan Jr. was born August 10, 1924, in Oyster Bay, New York to Henry Sturgis Morgan Sr. (1900–1982) and Catherine Frances Lovering Adams (1902–1988), the daughter of Frances Lovering and Charles Francis Adams III, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy under Herbert Hoover, and a descendant of U.S. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.

His younger brother was John Adams Morgan (b. 1930).

His second wife was Jean Alexandra McCain (1934–2019), daughter of Admiral John S. McCain, Jr. (1911–1981) and sister of U.S. Senator John McCain (1936–2018), and was married to her for 38 years until his death.

Morgan joined the Navy in 1942 and was commissioned in 1944.

On March 28, 1945, he married Fanny Gray Little of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Morgan graduated Groton School and Harvard University class of 1946.

Morgan commanded USS Tusk (SS-426) from June 29, 1957, to May 4, 1959; USS Fulton (AS-11) from May 25, 1966, to February 7, 1968; USS Providence (CLG-6) from February 3 to June 22, 1971; the Fourteenth Naval District, Pearl Harbor beginning in December 1971 and was Commander Naval Forces Korea from June 1972 to April 1975.

Morgan received the Legion of Merit.

Before their divorce in 1972, they had four children:

Morgan practiced maritime law as of counsel to the Admiralty practice group of the firm Vinson & Elkins for twelve years, from 1978 to 1990.

He died in Annapolis, Maryland, on May 6, 2011, aged 86, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.