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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeJohn Austin MOON
(1855-1921)
MOON, John Austin, a
Representative from Tennessee; born near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., April 22, 1855; moved with his parents to Bristol,
Va., in 1857 and then to Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1870; attended
private and public schools and King College, Bristol, Tenn.;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in March 1874 and commenced
practice in Chattanooga, Tenn.; city attorney of Chattanooga in
1881 and 1882; member of the State Democratic executive committee
in 1888; was commissioned in May 1889 as special circuit judge,
twice reappointed, and held the office until January 3, 1891;
appointed regular judge for the fourth circuit and served until
August 1892; elected circuit judge in 1892; reelected in 1894 for a
term of eight years but resigned when elected to Congress; elected
as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the eleven succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1921); chairman, Committee on
the Post Office and Post Roads (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth
Congresses); delegate to the Democratic National Convention in
1900; was renominated for Congress in 1921, but before election was
taken ill and died in Chattanooga, Tenn., June 26, 1921; interment
in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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