Dwight Whitney Morrow (1873–1931) was an American businessman, politician, attorney, and diplomat. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and later as a U.S. Senator. He was the father of the writer Anne Morrow and father-in-law of aviator Charles A. Lindbergh.
Born in Huntington, West Virginia, Morrow graduated from Amherst College and Columbia Law School. He began practicing at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York City. He made partner at J.P. Morgan & Co., and he served as a director on various corporate boards and economic committees. He was one of the most affluent men in New Jersey.
Morrow is best known as the U.S. Ambassador who improved U.S.-Mexican relations, negotiating the religious friction in Mexico known as the Cristero rebellion (1926–29.) He also contributed to an easing of disagreement between the two countries over oil.
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The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.
—Dwight Morrow
Topics: Success & Failure, Achievement, Doing
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
—Dwight Morrow
Topics: Action, Ideal, Judgement, One liners, Ideals
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
—Dwight Morrow
Topics: Humility, Government
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