Moses E. Clapp
Moses Edwin Clapp ( born May 21, 1851 in Delphi, Carroll County, Indiana, † March 6, 1929 in Accotink, Virginia ) was an American politician.
Life
Early life
Moses Clapp grew up the first years of life in Delphi 1857 and moved with his parents to Hudson ( Wisconsin). Here he attended school, and then matriculated at the University of Wisconsin, a, where he received his law degree in 1873. In 1874 he was admitted to the bar, and began practicing in his hometown of Hudson. Moses Clapp joined the Republican Party.
Political career
Four years later, 1878, Clapp was appointed district attorney of St. Croix County, an office which he held until 1880. 1881 Clapp moved to Fergus Falls in Minnesota, where he initially worked as a lawyer again. But even in Minnesota, he was able to hold high office, when he was elected from 1887 to 1893 for the Attorney General of Minnesota. His only major electoral defeat suffered Clapp 1896, when he was a candidate for the Republicans unsuccessfully for the governorship of Minnesota.
After the death of U.S. Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis and the only short-term incumbent Senator Charles Arnette Towne, Clapp 1901 was elected to the Senate of the United States, and took up his new post on January 23, 1901. Both in 1905 and also in 1911 was a re-election of Senator successful, so Clapp for 16 years - sat for Minnesota in the Senate - to 3 March 1917. At that time, Clapp led numerous Senate Komiteen, including the Committee on Indian Affairs and the Committee on Interstate Commerce. Clapp's nickname was not in vain The Black Eagle of Minnesota, which translates as The Black Eagle of Minnesota means.
Late life and death
After leaving office as a senator in 1917, Clapp and his family moved to Washington, where he was again from 1918 to 1923 worked as a lawyer. In 1923 he became vice-president and business consultant for the North American Development Corporation.
According to a Time magazine article from March 18, 1929 Clapp suffered a stroke in 1927, the successful attempt to draw his granddaughter from the Potomac River. He died two years later, at the age of 77 years, at his estate at Accontik ( Virginia).