Seth C. Moffatt

Seth Crittenden Moffatt ( born August 10, 1841 in Battle Creek, Michigan, † December 22, 1887 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1887 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Seth Moffatt attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1863 admitted to the bar he began in Traverse City to work in his new profession. After that, he spent ten years as a prosecutor in Grand Traverse County and Leelanau County. Politically Moffatt was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1871 and 1872 he sat in the Senate from Michigan. In 1873 he was a member of a meeting to revise the State Constitution.

Between 1874 and 1878 Moffatt worked for the Country Office in Traverse City. In the years 1881 and 1882 he was a member and President of the House of Representatives from Michigan. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. In the congressional elections of the same year he was elected the eleventh electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Edward Breitung on March 4, 1885. After a re-election, he could remain until his death on December 22, 1887 in Congress. His parliamentary seat in a by-election fell to Henry W. Seymour.