Hunter Holmes Moss

Hunter Holmes Moss

Hunter Holmes Moss (born May 26, 1874 in Parkersburg , Wood County , West Virginia , †  July 15, 1916 in Atlantic City , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1913 and 1916 he represented the fourth constituency of the State of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Hunter Moss attended public schools in his home country and worked at a bank in his youth. After studying law at West Virginia University in Morgantown and being admitted to the bar in 1896, he began his new profession in Parkersburg. Between 1900 and 1904 he was a district attorney in Wood County; from 1904 to 1912 he was a judge in the fourth judicial district of West Virginia.

Moss was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1912 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth district of West Virginia , where he succeeded Democrat John M. Hamilton on March 4, 1913 . After a re-election in 1914 he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until his death on July 15, 1916 in Atlantic City. While he was in Congress, the 16th and 17th amendments came into effect. Hunter Holmes Moss was buried in his native Parkersburg.

Web links

• Hunter Holmes Moss in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hunter Holmes Moss in the database of Find a Grave (English)