The Honorable Lewis V. Morgan, Jr., '54: 1930-2018
Lewis Morgan, former state representative, DuPage County judge and longtime public servant, dies at 88
Wheaton attorney Lewis V. Morgan Jr. was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives in the 1960s and later served as a DuPage County Circuit judge and as head of the court’s domestic relations division.
While hearing contentious and highly charged divorce cases, Morgan had a “cooling effect” on the parties involved, and he pushed them to settle their disputes, often during private conferences in his chambers, recalled lawyer Joseph Mirabella.
“He’d say, ‘Let’s go back into my chambers, and I’ll make coffee.’ He always had a coffeepot going in his chambers, and he calmed the lawyers down. He got these people to settle their cases,” Mirabella said.
Morgan, 88, died of congestive heart failure Oct. 4 at the Brookdale Glen Ellyn assisted living facility in Glen Ellyn, said his daughter, Barbara Oshlo. Morgan had been a longtime Wheaton resident before a recent move to Glen Ellyn.
Lewis Morgan Jr. graduated from Wheaton High School in 1947. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1951 from DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., and a law degree from the University of Chicago in 1954. Morgan then served in the Army from 1954 until 1957 before serving briefly as a justice of the peace in Wheaton.
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