C. Ellis Moore

C. Ellis Moore (1923)

Charles Ellis Moore (born January 3, 1884 in Middlebourne , Guernsey County , Ohio , †  April 2, 1941 in Cambridge , Ohio) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1933 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ellis Moore attended public schools in his home country and then Mount Union College in Alliance . In 1907 he graduated from Muskingum College in New Concord . In the meantime he taught in Oxford as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree at Ohio State University in Columbus and his admission to the bar in 1910, he began to work in this profession in Cambridge. Between 1914 and 1918 he was a prosecutor in the local Guernsey County. Politically, he joined the Republican Party .

In the 1918 congressional election , Moore was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 15th  constituency of Ohio , where he succeeded George White on March 4, 1919 . After six re-elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1933 . The 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution were ratified in 1919 and 1920 . It was about the ban on trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage . In 1926, Moore was one of the MPs tasked with conducting impeachment proceedings against Federal Judge George W. English . Since 1929 the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Great Depression.

In 1932, Charles Moore was not re-elected. After his time in the US House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He also got into the banking industry. He died on April 2, 1941 in Cambridge, where he was also buried.

Web links

• C. Ellis Moore in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• C. Ellis Moore in the database of Find a Grave (English)