Morton McMichael (October 2, 1807 – January 6, 1879) was an American newspaper editor, publisher, civic leader and mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1866 to 1869.
He worked as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post and Godey's Lady's Book and as editor-in-chief of the Saturday Courier. He co-founded the Saturday Gazette and was publisher of The North American. He chaired the Executive Consolidation Committee that developed the Act of Consolidation of 1854 to expand the borders of the city of Philadelphia and include all of Philadelphia County. He served as president of the Fairmount Park Commission.
McMichael Park, Morton McMichael Elementary School and the McMichael Room in the Philadelphia Union League are all named in his honor.
McMichael was born on October 2, 1807, in Burlington County, New Jersey, to John and Hannah McMichael. His father was a soldier during the War of 1812[1] and worked with Joseph Bonaparte, the older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte and former King of Spain.[2]
His family moved to Philadelphia when he was young and he attended the University of Pennsylvania. He read law under David Paul Brown and William M. Meredith[3] and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1827,[2] but never practiced law.[4]
McMichael became an editor of The Saturday Evening Post in 1826. From 1831 to 1836 he was editor-in-chief of the Saturday Courier. In 1836 he founded the Saturday News along with Louis A. Godey and Joseph C. Neal.[1] He worked as the editor of Godey's Lady's Book from 1842 to 1844.[3] He published the Saturday Gazette with Joseph C. Neal from 1844 to 1847. At the age of 39, he partnered with George Rex Graham for the publication of The North American. McMichael led the merger of the United States Gazette into the North American which also brought Robert Montgomery Bird into the organization as editor. Graham left the paper in 1848 and McMichael and Bird built the North American into a success.[5]
The paper grew to prominence and McMichael became sole publisher in 1854 when co-owner Robert Montgomery Bird died. He remained publisher until his own death in 1879, though his sons took over active operations in his final years.[6][7]
McMichael served in a number of political positions throughout his life. He began his service as a police magistrate and then as an Alderman in the Spring Garden neighborhood of Philadelphia.[6] As an Alderman, he also served as Justice of the peace for the County of Philadelphia.[1]
During the 1837 anti-abolition riots in Philadelphia, McMichael helped break up a mob and prevent the burning of an African-American orphanage.[8]
McMichael began his political career in 1838 as a Jacksonian Democrat but drifted away from that ideology and became a Democrat, a Whig in 1843[9] and a Republican in 1857.[10] McMichael was attracted to the Republicans' strong stance on high tariffs and less so on their abolitionist beliefs.[11]
In 1843 he was elected Sheriff of Philadelphia County, serving until 1846.[1] McMichael served his three-year term as Sheriff during the Philadelphia nativist riots and helped prevent further violence.
In 1854, McMichael chaired the Executive Consolidation Committee, which developed the Consolidation Act of 1854 that merged the city of Philadelphia with many of the surrounding districts into a single political entity.[12] His newspaper also argued for a new street numbering system to replace the city’s confusing address system, which often numbered houses in the order they were built rather than by location and resulted in fractional house numbers along streets.[13]
Thoroughout the American Civil War, He saw the succession of the South as treason and that slavery was incompatible with re-consolidation of the Union and Confederacy. After the assassination of Lincoln, he became a strong advocate for Republicanism and anti-slavery.[14]
In 1865, McMichael defeated Democrat Daniel M. Fox by 5,000 votes and was elected as the Mayor of Philadelphia.[15] While he was mayor, the Fairmount Park Commission was established. McMichael served on the board and, once his term ended in 1869, was appointed as president of the commission, serving until his death.[16]
He was offered a position as minister to Great Britain by President Ulysses S. Grant but declined.[17]
In 1873 he was appointed a delegate at large to the fourth Constitutional convention of Pennsylvania. This resulted in the establishment of the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1874.[18]
McMichael married Mary Estell (1822-1877) and had four children:
He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1867.[21] He served as president of the Union League after Horace Binney.[6]
McMichael died on January 6, 1879, as a result of inflammatory rheumatism[6] and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery.[22]
A statue of McMichael, unveiled in 1882, sits in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park at Sedgely Drive and Lemon Hill Drive.[23]
Several things in Philadelphia were named in his honor, including:
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