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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaRalph Wilbur MOSS
(1862-1919)
MOSS, Ralph Wilbur, a
Representative from Indiana; born in Center Point, Clay County,
Ind., April 21, 1862; educated in the common schools of the
township and attended Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., for
two years; taught school in Sugar Ridge Township; principal of the
graded schools in Harmony, Ind.; subsequently became engaged in
agricultural pursuits; member of the State senate 1905-1909;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the three
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1917); chairman,
Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture
(Sixty-second Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress and for election in 1918 to the
Sixty-sixth Congress; retired to his farm near Ashboro, Clay
County, Ind., where he died on April 26, 1919; interment in Moss
Cemetery, near his home.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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