J. McKenzie Moss

John McKenzie Moss ( born January 3, 1868 Bennett Town, Christian County, Kentucky, † June 11 1929 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician. In the years 1902 and 1903, he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives; later he became a federal judge.

Career

J. McKenzie Moss was a nephew of James A. McKenzie (1840-1904), who was also of 1877-1883 the state of Kentucky in Congress, then U.S. ambassador to Peru was. Moss attended both public and private schools. Between 1888 and 1891 he worked for the postal service of the railway. After studying law at Kent Law School in Chicago and his 1893 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Bowling Green in this profession.

Politically, Moss member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1900 he ran in the third electoral district of Kentucky for the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. He first lost against the Democratic incumbent John Stockdale Rhea. Moss put but against the outcome of the election opposition a. After this had been accepted, he took over on March 25, 1902, the mandate of Rhea. Until March 3, 1903, he was able to finish the partly used term in Congress.

In the elections of 1902 he was defeated Rhea, who thus regained his old seat. In the following years, Moss again worked as a lawyer. Between 1909 and 1921 he was a judge in the eighth judicial district of Kentucky. In 1921 to 1923 he held various positions in the federal government; while he was 1923-1926, he served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Ministry of Finance operates. After Moss was until his death in 1929, federal judge on United States Court of Claims, where he was followed by George Eddy Downey.

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