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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisJesse Hale MOORE
(1817-1883)
MOORE, Jesse Hale, a
Representative from Illinois; born near Lebanon, St. Clair County,
Ill., April 22, 1817; was graduated from McKendree College,
Lebanon, Ill., in 1842; taught school in Nashville, Ill.,
1842-1844; and at Georgetown, Ill., 1844-1848; studied for the
ministry and was ordained a Methodist minister in 1849; served in
the Union Army as colonel of the One Hundred and Fifteenth
Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, September 13, 1862;
honorably mustered out June 11, 1865; presiding elder of the
Decatur district of the Illinois conference in 1868 and resided in
Decatur, Ill.; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and
Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1873); chairman,
Committee on Invalid Pensions (Forty-second Congress); unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress;
United States pension agent, Springfield, Ill., 1873-1877; served
as pastor of Mechanicsburg (Ill.) Methodist Church; was appointed
by President Arthur as United States consul at Callao, Peru,
October 27, 1881, and served until his death there on July 11,
1883; interment in Callao, Peru; reinterment in Greenwood Cemetery,
Decatur, Ill.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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