Patricia Morgan

In 2020, Morgan ran for the state House of Representatives again and unseated incumbent Democrat James Jackson.

[6] 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.

In 1958, her father changed his surname to Lane because he'd been bullied as a child over his heritage and didn't want his daughters to suffer the same experience.

[10] Morgan complained on 28 December 2021 via Twitter that a friendship she had with an African American friend had become "hostile and unpleasant."

Morgan largely attributed this hostility to efforts by teachers and the political left's support for critical race theory.