Ralph W. Moss (U.S. Representative)

Ralph Wilbur Moss ( * April 21, 1862 in Center Point, Clay County, Indiana, † April 26, 1919 at Ashboro, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1917 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ralph Moss attended the common schools and then studied for two years at Purdue University in West Lafayette. After that, he taught for some time even as a teacher. He also worked in agriculture. Politically, Moss was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1905 and 1909 he was a member of the Senate of Indiana.

In the congressional elections of 1908 Moss was in the fifth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Elias S. Holliday on March 4, 1909. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1917 four legislative sessions. In 1913 were the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified. From 1911 to 1913 Ralph Moss was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Department of Agriculture.

1916 was subject Moss Republican Everett Sanders. Two years later, he sought unsuccessfully to return to Congress. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives to Moss retired to his farm near Ashboro, where he died on 26 April 1919.