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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeWilliam Robert MOORE
(1830-1909)
MOORE, William Robert, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Huntsville, Ala., March 28,
1830; moved to Beech Grove, Tenn., while an infant, and when six
years old the family settled in Fosterville, Rutherford County;
attended the district schools; at the age of fifteen became a clerk
in a dry-goods store in Beech Grove and later in Nashville, Tenn.;
engaged in the wholesale dry-goods business in New York City as a
salesman 1856-1859; moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 1859 and organized
a wholesale dry-goods store; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); declined to
accept a renomination in 1882; resumed his business activities;
member, State house of representatives, 1889-1891; died in Memphis,
Tenn., June 12, 1909; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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