Edward C. Moran, Jr.

Edward Carleton Moran Jr. ( born December 29, 1894 in Rockland, Knox County, Maine; † July 12, 1967 ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1937 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Moran attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1917, the Bowdoin College in Brunswick. Between July 1917 and March 1919 he participated as a soldier in the U.S. Army in the First World War. He was assigned to a Coast Artillery Corps and used in Europe. After his return to Maine Moran went into the insurance business in Rockland. He became a member of the Democratic Party and was 1922-1936 Delegate to the regional party conferences in Maine. In 1924 and 1932 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant, on which John W. Davis and then Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated as the presidential candidate. In the years 1928 and 1930, Moran ran unsuccessfully for governor of Maine.

In the congressional elections of 1932 he was in the second electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1933, the successor of the Republican Donald B. Partridge. His election victory was at that time in the national trend, which saw the Democratic Party clearly on the upswing. Culmination of this trend was the election of Franklin Roosevelt as U.S. president. After a re-election Moran was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1937 two legislative sessions. During this time, many of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were discussed and adopted. In addition, the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was adopted in 1933, by the 18th Amendment, the ban on alcohol in 1919, was lifted. In 1936, Moran gave up for reelection.

Between 1937 and 1940 Edward Moran was a member of the Maritime Commission, the Federal Government. In 1942 he was the Director of the price control authority for the State of Maine for several months. In 1945, he worked briefly for the Department of Labor and in the years 1946 and 1947 he was Chairman of the Municipal Council of Rockland. He also continued to work in the insurance industry. Edward Moran died on 12 July 1967 in his birthplace of Rockland.