Edward C. Moran

Edward C. Moran (1937)

Edward Carleton Moran Jr. (born December 29, 1894 in Rockland , Knox County , Maine , †  July 12, 1967 there ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1937 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Moran attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1917 Bowdoin College in Brunswick . Between July 1917 and March 1919 he took part in the First World War as a soldier in the US Army . He was assigned to a coastal artillery corps and used in Europe. After returning to Maine, Moran entered the insurance business in Rockland. He became a member of the Democratic Party and was between 1922 and 1936 a delegate to their regional party congresses in Maine. In 1924 and 1932 he was also a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions , at which John W. Davis and then Franklin D. Roosevelt were nominated as presidential candidates. In 1928 and 1930, Moran ran unsuccessfully for governor of Maine.

In the congressional elections of 1932 he was in the second constituency of Maine in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC selected. There he took over from Republican Donald B. Partridge on March 4, 1933 . His election victory at that time was in line with the federal trend, which saw the Democratic Party clearly on the upswing. The high point of this trend was the election of Franklin Roosevelt as US President. After a re-election, Moran was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1937 . During this time, many of the federal government's New Deal laws were discussed and passed. In addition, the 21st amendment to the constitution was passed in 1933 , repealing the 18th amendment , the alcohol ban from 1919. In 1936, Moran decided not to run again.

Between 1937 and 1940, Edward Moran was a member of the Federal Government's Maritime Commission. In 1942 he served as the director of the Maine Price Control Board for several months. In 1945 he served briefly for the Department of Labor and in 1946 and 1947 he was chairman of the Rockland Town Council. He also continued to work in the insurance industry. Edward Moran died on July 12, 1967 in his native Rockland.

Web links

• Edward C. Moran in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edward C. Moran in the database of Find a Grave (English)