A. Harry Moore

Arthur Harry Moore ( born July 3, 1879 in Jersey City, New Jersey, † November 18, 1952 in Branchburg Township, New Jersey ) was an American politician and 1926-1941 three times Governor of the State of New Jersey. He also represented his state 1935-1938 in the U.S. Senate.

Early years and political rise

Harry Moore attended the local schools of his home and the Cooper Union College in New York City. He then studied at the New Jersey Law School Law. After qualifying as a lawyer, he began in Jersey City to work in his new profession.

Moore was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1908 and 1911 he was secretary of the mayor of his hometown of Jersey City. The following two years until 1913, he was a tax in this city. Between 1913 and 1925 he was General Manager of his hometown. On November 3, 1925, he was first elected governor of his state.

Political career

First and second term as governor

Harry Moore joined his first three -year term on 19 January 1926. According to the constitution, he was not allowed to run directly back 1928. Therefore, he resigned from office on January 15, 1929. Already at the next gubernatorial election in November 1931, he was again elected to the highest office of New Jersey. His second term began on January 19, 1932 and ended on 3 January 1935. During his first two terms, the compensation law has been improved for workers and adopted a law regulating the handling of medicines. In addition, a state planning committee was set up. Moore was known back then, when he intervened in the investigation into the abduction of the son of Charles Lindbergh. His second term in 1932 was overshadowed by the effects of the global economic crisis that has left its mark in New Jersey.

Moore in the U.S. Senate

In November 1934 Harry Moore was elected as the successor of Hamilton Fish Kean for Class 1 Senator in the U.S. Congress in Washington. He assumed his new mandate to on 3 January 1935. At the same time he resigned as governor of New Jersey, where his regular term would already expired a few days later. But Moore graduated not the full six -year term. He was not represented in any Senate committee. After he was elected for the third time as governor of New Jersey on November 2, 1937, he resigned as U.S. Senator on January 17, 1938. There initially took over John Gerald Milton his seat, but still fell to the Republican William Warren Barbour in 1938.

Third term as governor

Between 18 January 1938 and the January 21, 1941 Moore studied his third and final term as governor. He is the governor of New Jersey with the overall longest tenure in the 20th century as well as the only governor of his state, who could not attend contiguous reigns of three. In his third term, the laws for the sale of alcohol and gasoline were revised.

Further CV

After the end of his governorship, Moore withdrew from politics. He went back to his legal activities as a lawyer. A. Harry Moore died in November 1952. He was married to Jennie Hastings Stevens.