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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkEly MOORE
(1798-1860)
MOORE, Ely, a
Representative from New York; born near Belvidere, Warren County,
N.J., July 4, 1798; attended the public schools; moved to New York
City; studied medicine, but did not engage in extensive practice;
became a printer and subsequently became editor of the National
Trades Union, a labor paper in New York City; elected as a
Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a
Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3,
1839); political editor of the New York Evening Post in 1838 and
1839; president of the board of trade and surveyor of the port of
New York City 1839-1845; appointed by President Polk United States
marshal for the southern district of New York in 1845; became owner
and editor of the Warren Journal of Belvidere, N.J.; appointed
agent for the Miami and other tribes of Indians in Kansas in 1853;
appointed register of the United States land office in Lecompton,
Kans., in 1855 and served until 1860; died in Lecompton, Douglas
County, Kans., January 27, 1860; interment on his farm near
Lecompton.
Bibliography
Hugins, Walter Edward. “Ely Moore: The Case History of a
Jacksonian Labor Leader.”Political Science Quarterly
65 (March 1950): 105-25.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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