J. Hampton Moore

Joseph Hampton Moore ( born March 8, 1864 in Woodbury, New Jersey; † May 2, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1906 and 1920 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

J. Hampton Moore attended the common schools. He then studied law. Between 1881 and 1894 he was a newspaper reporter. From 1894 to 1897 he served as Chief Clerk at the City Treasurer of Philadelphia, and in 1900 he was secretary of the then mayor of this city, Samuel Howell Ashbridge. Thereafter, he served from 1901 to 1903 even as the city treasurer. Moore was a member of the Republican Party and engaged in some regional party organizations in Philadelphia and at the state level. Between January and June 1905 he worked as head of the craft with the Trade and Labor Ministry of the United States. In the meantime, he was also president of a Philadelphia-based group. From 1907 to 1947 he was president of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association.

In 1906, Moore was elected at a by-election in the third electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on November 6, 1906. After seven elections he could remain until his resignation on January 4, 1920 in Congress. This period was, among other things, the First World War. In addition, the 16th, the 17th and the 18th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

In June 1920 Moore was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Chicago, was nominated at the Warren G. Harding as their presidential candidate. Between 1920 and 1923 he served first as mayor of Philadelphia. In 1926 he was an American delegate to an international shipping conference in Cairo. From 1932 to 1935 he was once mayor of Philadelphia. After that, he is no longer politically have appeared. He died on May 2, 1950 in Philadelphia.