Merrill Moores

Merrill Moores

Merrill Moores (born April 21, 1856 in Indianapolis , Indiana , †  October 21, 1929 there ) was an American politician . Between 1915 and 1925 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Merrill Moores attended the public schools in his home country and then studied at Butler University in Indianapolis. He then continued his education at Willamette University in Salem ( Oregon ) and then until 1878 at Yale University . After a subsequent law degree at the later Indiana Law School and his admission as a lawyer in 1880, he began to work in Indianapolis in this profession. In September 1872 he went on a 9-day hike with John Muir to the Hetch Hetchy Valley, which was under discussion for the San Francisco water supply.

Politically, Moore was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1892 and 1896 he was their district chairman in Marion County . Between 1894 and 1903 he worked as an assistant to the Indiana Attorney General . In 1908 he was President of the Indiana State and Indianapolis Bar Associations. From 1909 to 1925 he was a member of a commission that was supposed to standardize the laws of the individual states. In 1919, Moores was also a member of the board of directors of the Inter-Parliamentary Union .

In the 1914 congressional election , Moores was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Charles A. Korbly on March 4, 1915 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1925 . During this time the First World War fell . The 18th and 19th amendments to the Constitution were ratified in 1919 and 1920 .

In 1924, Moores was no longer up for re-election by his party. Two years later he again missed the Republican nomination for the congressional election. As a result, he practiced again as a lawyer in Indianapolis. He was also vice president of American Systems and Audit Co. He died on October 21, 1929 in Indianapolis.

Web links

• Merrill Moores in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Merrill Moore in the database of Find a Grave (English)