Ely Moore

Ely Moore

Ely Moore (born July 4, 1798 in Belvidere , New Jersey , † January 27, 1860 in Lecompton , Kansas ) was an American politician . Between 1835 and 1839 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ely Moore was born at Belvidere in the late 18th century. He attended public schools and then moved to New York City . Moore studied medicine but did not practice extensively. He became a printer and then editor of the National Trade Union , a trade union newspaper in New York City. Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction. In the congressional elections of 1834 Moore was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New York , where he succeeded Churchill C. Cambreleng , Campbell P. White , John J. Morgan and on March 4, 1835 Charles G. Ferris took up who had previously represented the third district in the US House of Representatives. He moved to the Democratic Party before the congressional elections in 1836 . After a successful election he decided not to run again in 1838 and resigned from Congress on March 3, 1839 .

In 1838 and 1839 he was the political editor of the New York Evening Post . Between 1839 and 1845 he was president of the Chamber of Commerce ( Board of Trade ) and expert ( surveyor ) in the Port of New York City . President James K. Polk then named him US Marshal for the southern borough of New York in 1845 . He became the owner and editor of Belvidere's Warren Journal . In 1853 he was appointed agent for the Miami and Kansas Indian tribes. Two years later he was active as a register in the Federal Land Registry in Lecompton, a position he held until 1860. He died there on January 27, 1860 and was then buried on his nearby farm.

Web links

• Ely Moore in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ely Moore in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Ely Moore on The Political Graveyard website