Merrill Moores

Merrill Moores (* April 21, 1856 in Indianapolis, Indiana, † October 21, 1929 ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1925 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Merrill Moore attended the common schools and then studied at Butler University in Indianapolis. Subsequently, he continued his education at Willamette University in Salem (Oregon ), and then to 1878 at Yale University. After a subsequent law studies at the later Indiana Law School and its made ​​in 1880 admitted to the bar he began in Indianapolis to work in this profession. Politically, Moores member of the Republican Party. Between 1892 and 1896 he was chairman of the district in Marion County. Between 1894 and 1903 he worked as an assistant to the Attorney General of Indiana. In 1908, he was president of the Bar Association of the State of Indiana and the city of Indianapolis. From 1909 to 1925 he was a member of a commission to unify the laws of individual states. In 1919, Moore was also a member of the Executive Board of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

In the congressional elections of 1914, Moore was in the seventh election district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles A. Korbly on March 4, 1915. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1925 five legislative sessions. In this time of the First World War fell. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified.

1924 Moores was not erected by his party for re-election. Two years later he again missed the Republican nomination for the congressional elections. As a result, he practiced as a lawyer again in Indianapolis. He was also vice president of the company American system and Audit Co. He died on October 21, 1929 in Indianapolis.