Reuben Moon

Reuben Osborne Moon ( born July 22, 1847 in Jobstown, Burlington County, New Jersey, † October 25, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1903 and 1913 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Reuben Moon attended the public schools of his home and then to 1874 the National School of Oratory in Philadelphia, where he subsequently taught himself. After a subsequent law degree in 1884 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Philadelphia in this profession. He was also one of the founders of the Republican Party related Columbia Club in Indianapolis, which he was president in the meantime. Moon itself was also a member of the Republican Party.

After the death of Mr Robert H. Foerderer Moon was in the overdue election for the fourth seat of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on November 3, 1903. After four elections he could remain until March 3, 1913 at the Congress. From 1905 to 1911 he was chairman of the Committee on the revision of federal legislation.

In 1912, Reuben Moon has not been nominated by his party for re-election. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on October 25, 1919 in Philadelphia.