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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TexasLittleton Wilde MOORE
(1835-1911)
MOORE, Littleton Wilde, a
Representative from Texas; born in Marion County, Ala., March 25,
1835; moved with his parents to Mississippi in 1836; was graduated
from the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1855; studied law
and was admitted to the bar in 1857; moved to Texas in 1857 and
commenced practice in Bastrop; served as captain in the Confederate
Army throughout the Civil War; elected to the State constitutional
convention in 1875; district judge 1876-1885; elected as a Democrat
to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4,
1887-March 3, 1893); resumed the practice of his profession;
appointed judge of the twenty-second judicial district in 1901 and
served until his death in Lagrange, Fayette County, Tex., October
29, 1911; interment in the City Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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