Robert Dale Morgan (May 27, 1912 – May 29, 2002) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as Mayor of Peoria, Illinois, from 1953 to 1957.
Robert Dale Morgan
Illinois Central District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois; U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
Born 1912 in Peoria, IL
Died 2002 in Peoria, IL
FJC ID: 1688
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 1/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 10/year
Illinois Southern District Court · 1967–1979Illinois Central District Court · 1979–2002
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Private practice, Peoria, Illinois1937–1942, 1946–1967
- Peoria, IllinoisMayor · 1953–1957
U.S. Army1942–1946
Appointments
1979–2002 (None (reassignment))Term ended: Death
1967–1979 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)Term ended: Reassignment
Education
J.D. · 1937- Bradley UniversityB.A. · 1934