Gideon C. Moody
Gideon Curtis Moody (born October 16, 1832 in Cortland , New York , † March 17, 1904 in Los Angeles ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ). He was one of the first two US Senators from the state of South Dakota .
A native of Cortland County, New York State, Gideon Moody attended public schools and received an academic education. After being in Syracuse , the law had studied, he moved in 1852 to Indiana and was admitted to the bar in there the following year. From 1854 he served as a prosecutor in Floyd County .
In 1861 he held his first political mandate as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives ; in the same year he joined the Union Army . During the Civil War , he rose to the rank of colonel before retiring from the army in March 1864. He then moved to Dakota Territory .
There Moody belonged to the House of Representatives of the Territory from 1867 to 1869 ; another term of office followed there from 1874 to 1875, where he also acted as speaker . From 1878 to 1883 he was a judge on the Supreme Court of the Territory, in 1883 and 1885 he then took part in the Constitutional Convention of South Dakota.
After the new state was accepted into the Union, Moody was elected to the US Senate for the Republicans; the second representative of South Dakota was Richard F. Pettigrew . Moody's tenure began on November 2, 1889 and ended on March 3, 1891. When attempting re-election he was unsuccessful because of James H. Kyle of the Populist Party .
Web links
- Gideon C. Moody in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
- The Political Graveyard
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| SURNAME | Moody, Gideon C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moody, Gideon Curtis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American politician (Republican Party) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cortland , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1904 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |