Ely Moore

Ely Moore ( * July 4, 1798 in Belvidere, New Jersey, † January 27, 1860 in Lecompton, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1835 and 1839 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ely Moore was born in the late 18th century in Belvidere. He attended public schools and then moved to New York City. Moore studied medicine, but not extensively practiced. He was printer and then editor of the National Trade Union, a trade union newspaper in New York City. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1834, Moore became the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Churchill C. Cambreleng, Campbell P. White, John J. Morgan and Charles G. Ferris took on March 4, 1835 which had previously together represent the third district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He moved before the congressional elections of 1836 to the Democratic Party. After a successful election he resigned in 1838 to run again and was eliminated after March 3, 1839, from the Congress of.

In 1838 and 1839 he was political editor of the New York Evening Post. Between 1839 and 1845 he was president of the Chamber of Commerce ( Board of Trade ) and expert ( surveyor ) at the port of New York City. President James K. Polk then appointed him in 1845 to the U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of New York. He was owner and editor of the Warren Journal Belvidere. In 1853 he was appointed agent for the Miami and the Indian tribes in Kansas. Two years later, he worked as a tab in Federal Land Registry in Lecompton, a position which he held until 1860. He died there on 27 January 1860 and was buried at his nearby farm.