Edwin Vernon Morgan (1865-1934) served as a diplomat for the United States government nearly all of his working life, which he consequently spent in large part abroad.

Morgan was born February 22, 1865 in Aurora, New York, to Henry Augustus and Margaret (Bogart) Morgan. Edwin V. Morgan inherited a family legacy of success in politics, commerce, and education. His father was a merchant, and his grandfather, Edwin Barber Morgan, served in the U.S. House of Representatives, worked for Henry Wells' American Express and Wells-Fargo companies, and established a lasting family association with Wells College in Aurora. Edwin V. Morgan attended Phillips Andover Academy, and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard in 1890 and 1891, after which he taught modern history at Adelbert College in Cleveland, and at Western Reserve University.

Morgan worked in Asia and the Pacific for the United States government from 1899 to 1905. His first work as a diplomat involved mediation of civil conflicts in Samoa. Morgan also represented American interests in Korea at a time when the vulnerable Asian nation was subject to many outside pressures. While Japan, China, Russia, the United States, and various European countries vied for power or influence over Korea, Morgan worked in Seoul, St. Petersburg, Japan and Dalny, Manchuria.

Morgan later received appointments as American government minister to Cuba, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and finally to Brazil, where his appointment lasted from 1912 to 1933. Morgan, who never married, retired to Petropolis, Brazil, and died there April 16, 1934.