Patricia Morgan

This article is about the Rhode Island legislator. For the English educator, see Patricia Morgan-Webb. For the character, see List of Home and Away characters (2002) § Others. For the American transgender pioneer, see Patricia Morgan (transgender woman).
Patricia Morgan
Minority Leader of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
In office
January 7, 2017 – October 4, 2018
Preceded byBrian Newberry
Succeeded byBlake Filippi
Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
from the 26th district
In office
January 3, 2021 – January 7, 2025
Preceded byJames Jackson
Succeeded byEarl Read III
In office
January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2019
Preceded byWilliam Murphy
Succeeded byJames Jackson
Personal details
BornPatricia Lazar
(1950-08-25) August 25, 1950
Ohio, U.S.
PartyRepublican
EducationMississippi State University
Kent State University (BA)
Rhode Island College (MEd)

Patricia L. Morgan (born August 25, 1950) is an American politician and former Republican member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives representing district 26 from 2021 to 2025. She formerly represented district 26 from 2011 until 2019, where she chose not to run again. She became the first female minority leader of the Rhode Island House of Representatives in 2017, after she was chosen by the Republican caucus members on November 15, 2016, when former minority leader Brian Newberry stepped down from the position.

Morgan ran for Governor of Rhode Island in the 2018 election. She lost the primary to Cranston Mayor and 2014 Republican candidate Allan Fung.

In 2020, Morgan ran for the state House of Representatives again and unseated incumbent Democrat James Jackson. In 2024, she won the Republican primary for Rhode Island's Class I U.S. Senate seat, she lost the general election to Democratic incumbent Sheldon Whitehouse in a landslide.

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