Moses T. Stevens

Moses Tyler Stevens ( born October 10, 1825 North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, † March 25, 1907 ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1895 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Moses Stevens was the brother of Congressman Charles A. Stevens (1816-1892) and a cousin of Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862), who was also a congressman and governor of the Washington Territory. He attended the Franklin Academy in North Andover and then to 1842 the Phillips Academy in Andover. This was followed up in 1843 to study at Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire ) to. Later he exhibited in North Andover ago woolen goods. He went into the banking industry and was president of the Andover National Bank. At the same time struck Stevens as a member of the Democratic Party a political career one. In 1861 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; in 1868 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1890 Stevens was in the eighth election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Frederic T. Greenhalge on March 4, 1891. After a re-election in the fifth district of his state as a successor of Sherman Hoar him to undergo in Congress until March 3, 1895 two legislative sessions. In 1894 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Stevens took his previous activities in the production of wool products again. He died on 25 March 1907 in his hometown of North Andover.

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