Moses Edwin Clapp

Moses Edwin Clapp

Moses Edwin Clapp (born May 21, 1851 in Delphi , Carroll County , Indiana , † March 6, 1929 at Accotink , Virginia ) was an American politician who represented the state of Minnesota in the US Senate .

Life

Early life

Moses Clapp grew up in Delphi for the first few years and moved with his parents to Hudson ( Wisconsin ) in 1857 . Here he attended school and then enrolled at the University of Wisconsin one, where he graduated in 1873 in Law gained. He was admitted to the bar in 1874 and began practicing in his hometown of Hudson. Moses Clapp joined the Republican Party .

Political career

Four years later, in 1878, Clapp was appointed district attorney for St. Croix County , a position he held until 1880. In 1881 Clapp moved to Fergus Falls , Minnesota, where he initially worked as a lawyer again. But also in Minnesota he managed to hold high offices when he was elected Attorney General of Minnesota from 1887 to 1893 . Clapp suffered his only major electoral defeat in 1896 when he ran unsuccessfully for the Republicans for governor of Minnesota.

After the death of US Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis and the briefly incumbent Senator Charles Arnette Towne , Clapp was elected to the United States Senate in 1900; he took up his new office on January 23, 1901. In both 1904 and 1910, the Senator was re-elected successfully, so that Clapp sat for Minnesota in the Senate for 16 years - until March 3, 1917. At that time, Clapp headed numerous Senate committees, including the Committee on Indian Affairs and the Committee on Interstate Commerce . Clapp's nickname was not in vain The Black Eagle of Minnesota which translates, The black eagle of Minnesota means.

Late life and death

After leaving office as a Senator in 1917, Clapp moved with his family to Washington , where he again worked as a lawyer from 1918 to 1923. In 1923 he became a vice president and management consultant for the North American Development Corporation .

According to a March 18, 1929 article in Time Magazine , Clapp suffered a stroke in 1927 while successfully trying to pull his granddaughter out of the Potomac River . He died two years later, at the age of 77, on his estate near Accontik, Virginia.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Time [1] , March 18, 1929

Web links

• Moses Edwin Clapp in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)