Thomas Patrick Moore

Thomas Patrick Moore (* 1797 in Charlotte County , Virginia , †  July 21, 1853 in Harrodsburg , Kentucky ) was an American politician . Between 1823 and 1829 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Moore attended the public schools in his home country. He then moved to Harrodsburg, Kentucky with his parents. In his new home state, he continued his education by studying at Transylvania University in Lexington . During the British-American War of 1812 , Moore was an officer in the United States Army . He rose to major in an infantry unit. Politically, Moore became a member of the Democratic Republican Party . He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1819 and 1820 . In the 1820s he joined the faction around the future President Andrew Jackson , from which the Democratic Party was to emerge in 1828 .

In the 1822 congressional election , Moore was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded John Speed ​​Smith on March 4, 1823 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1829 . From 1825 to 1827 he was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business . His time in Congress was marked by violent clashes between his party's supporters and those of President John Quincy Adams .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Moore was appointed envoy to Colombia by Andrew Jackson, who has now been elected president , and succeeded William Henry Harrison . He held this office until April 1833. In the meantime he had been re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the 1832 congressional elections in the fifth district of Kentucky. This choice was challenged by Robert Letcher . Then new elections were announced, which Letcher won. During the Mexican-American War , Thomas Moore was a lieutenant colonel in the US Army. In 1849 and 1850 he was a delegate to the Convention to Revise the Kentucky Constitution. Thomas Moore died in Harrodsburg on July 21, 1853.

Web links

• Thomas Patrick Moore in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)