Upbringing
Morgan was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Alexander Morgan and German American Elira Morgan (née Ruderth). and was raised in Toledo, where he was often in trouble with the law. He joined the Army after World War II and married to Darlene Edgerton in 1947. The marriage was annulled after a year and a half. He was stationed in Japan, where he fathered a son with a German-Japanese hostess named Setsuko Takeda.
He was court-martialed in 1948.
He is said to have been skilled with firearms and was rumored to have been a Central Intelligence Agency operative, though there are no public records or witness interviews to support the claim.
On May 11, 1954 Morgan married Ellen Theresa May Bethel in Miami. They had two children, Anne Marie (1956) and William A. Morgan, Jr. (1957).
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