Wyman Bradbury Seavy Moor

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Wyman BS Moor

Wyman Bradbury Seavy Moor (born November 11, 1811 in Waterville , Massachusetts , †  March 10, 1869 in Lynchburg , Virginia ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Maine in the US Senate for a short time .

Wyman Moor was born in what is now Maine and attended schools in his homeland, then the China Academy and finally Waterville College , where he graduated. He subsequently worked for a year as a teacher in the Canadian city of St. Stephen ( New Brunswick ), before returning to his hometown to where the law to study. He completed his legal education at Dane Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was inducted into the bar in 1835 and began practicing in Waterville.

His political career, which he kept interrupting to work as a lawyer, began in 1839 with membership in the Maine House of Representatives . Between 1844 and 1848 he held the office of Attorney General in the state government. In 1847 he moved his residence and office to Bangor . Moor was married since 1834 to Clara Ann Niel Cook, a descendant of Thomas Dudley , a governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony .

After the death of US Senator John Fairfield on December 24, 1847, Moor was appointed acting successor by Governor John Dana . He took his mandate in Congress from January 5, 1848 to June 7 of the same year before he was replaced by Hannibal Hamlin , who won the by-election . He then returned to Bangor before resettling in his hometown of Waterville in 1852. He also served as director of a railway construction project between Waterville and Bangor before US President James Buchanan appointed him US Consul General in British North America . Moor remained at this post from 1857 to 1861; after that he worked again as a lawyer in Waterville. In 1868 he bought a property near Lynchburg, Virginia and retired there. The following year Moor died in his new home; he was buried in Waterville.

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SURNAME Moor, Wyman Bradbury Seavy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Waterville , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1869
Place of death Lynchburg , Virginia