John William Moore

John William Moore ( born June 9, 1877 in Morgantown, Butler County, Kentucky, † December 11, 1941 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1933 he represented with a brief interruption in 1929, the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Moore attended the common schools. Then he took up in 1897 a trade course at Bryant and Stratton College in Louisville. In 1898 he got a job at the Morgantown Deposit Bank. Between 1899 and 1919 he worked in the timber industry. After that, he was from 1920 to 1925 cashier at the Morgantown Deposit Bank. Moore was a member of the Democratic Party. After the death of Mr Robert Y. Thomas, he was elected in the third electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on December 26, 1925. After a re-election in 1926, he could remain until March 3, 1929 at the Congress.

In the congressional elections of 1928, Moore was defeated by Republican Charles W. Roark. After his death on April 5, 1929 Moore was elected to the due election as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives. There he took on June 1, 1929 again his old seat. For the regular elections of 1930, Moore has been confirmed. So that he could remain until March 3, 1933 Congress. In this time of onset of the Great Depression fell. In addition, at that time the 20th Amendment was ratified, by the beginning of the terms of office of the Congress and the President from March were brought forward to January.

In 1932, Moore gave up another candidacy. After that, he worked in his old job before he the Federal Housing Administration was deputy auditor ( Comptroller ). A post he held until his death on December 11, 1941 in Washington. He was buried in his native Morgantown.