Hywel Rhodri Morgan is a Welsh

Welsh people

The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...

 Labour

Labour Party (UK)

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 politician who, as First Secretary for Wales, and subsequently First Minister, was leader of the Welsh Assembly Government from 2000 to 2009. A former leader of Welsh Labour, he was the Assembly Member

National Assembly for Wales

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 for Cardiff West

Cardiff West (Assembly constituency)

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 from 1999 to 2011. He is the longest serving Welsh First Minister to date, being in office continuously for 9 years and 10 months. He was elected chancellor of Swansea University

Swansea University

Swansea University is a university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Swansea University was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. In 1996, it changed its name to the University of Wales Swansea following structural changes...

 on 24th October 2011.
Born in Cardiff

Cardiff

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, Hywel Rhodri Morgan is the son of Professor T. J. Morgan

T. J. Morgan

Thomas John Morgan , better known as T. J. Morgan, was a Welsh academic.He was born in the village of Glais, near Swansea, and he studied at Swansea University.In 1926, he met his future wife at the National Eisteddfod of Wales...

 and the brother of the historian, Prys Morgan

Prys Morgan

Prys Morgan FRHistS FSA FLSW is a Welsh historian.He was born in Cardiff, the son of academic T. J. Morgan. Like his brother, Rhodri Morgan, Prys Morgan was educated at Whitchurch Grammar School and St John's College, Oxford. He then joined the teaching staff of the University of Wales, Swansea,...

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Morgan was educated at Whitchurch Grammar School (merged with Whitchurch County Secondary School to become the comprehensive Whitchurch High School

Whitchurch High School

Whitchurch High School is a large, co-educational, comprehensive secondary school in the suburb of Whitchurch in Cardiff, Wales. It is considered to be one of the better secondary schools in Cardiff, and was described in its 2009 Estyn report as a 'good school' which is 'moving forward from...

 in 1972) in Whitchurch

Whitchurch, Cardiff

Whitchurch is a suburb in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales. It is approximately 3 miles north of the centre of the city on the A470 road and A4054 road. Its estimated population as of 2004 was 15,649. It falls within the Whitchurch & Tongwynlais ward.-History:Whitchurch draws its name from...

, Cardiff; St John's College, Oxford

St John's College, Oxford

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 studying PPE

Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

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; and Harvard University

Harvard University

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, where he gained an MA

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 in Government.

In 1967, he married former Labour MP for Cardiff North

Cardiff North (UK Parliament constituency)

Cardiff North is aborough constituency in the city of Cardiff. It returns one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system....

 Julie Morgan

Julie Morgan

Julie Morgan AM is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Cardiff North from 1997 until 2010; she is married to former First Minister of Wales, Rhodri Morgan. Julie Morgan won the Cardiff North seat in the Welsh Assembly in the 2011 elections.-Early life,...

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