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Edgar A. Morling

American judge

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ20707313 ↗
Source-derived summary

Edgar Alfred Morling (April 21, 1864 – October 15, 1932) was a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court from October 1, 1925, to October 15, 1932, appointed from Palo Alto County, Iowa.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Edgar A. Morling” as american judge. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1864, 1932, 1925—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1864-04-21. The account is most persuasive where Edgar, Morling and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as american judge. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20707313. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1864, 1932 and 1925.

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This entry incorporates text from “Edgar A. Morling” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.