R. Walton Moore

R. Walton Moore (1937)

Robert Walton Moore (born February 6, 1859 in Fairfax , Virginia , †  February 8, 1941 there ) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1931 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Walton Moore attended Episcopal High School near Alexandria . He then studied at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1880, he began to work in Virginia and Washington, DC in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1887 and 1890 he was a member of the Virginia Senate . In 1901 and 1902 Moore was a delegate to a meeting to revise the state constitution. In 1911 he served as the president of the bar in his home state. Between 1907 and 1917 he served on the governing bodies of the College of William & Mary and the University of Virginia. Robert Moore was also legal representatives of some freight companies from the South before the Interstate Commerce Commission , the Federal Commercial Court and the Supreme Court of the United States . He was a legal advisor to the United States Railroad Administration in 1918 and 1919 .

After the resignation of the MP Charles Creighton Carlin Moore was elected in the by-election for the eighth seat of Virginia as his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on April 27, 1919. After five re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1931 . In 1930 he renounced another candidacy. In 1933, Moore was appointed Assistant Secretary of State by President Franklin D. Roosevelt . From 1937 he served as a counselor for the State Department. He died on February 8, 1941 in his birthplace, Fairfax.

Web links

• R. Walton Moore in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• R. Walton Moore in the database of Find a Grave (English)