Along with fellow Republican Martin G. Madden, he helped unseat incumbent Democrat William C. Bevan from office.
Morgan also ran for United States Congress in 1996 against incumbent Steny Hoyer, but was defeated by 14 percentage points.
Prior to elected office, Delegate Morgan was a senior engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
From 2001 to 2010, he directed the Office of Science and Technology within the National Institute of Justice, the office in the Department of Justice responsible for the nation's development of technology for state and local law enforcement, corrections, and crime laboratories.
He received the Service to America medal in 2007 for his work to improve the nation's capacity to use DNA evidence.