Thomas Patrick Moore

Thomas Patrick Moore ( * 1797 in Charlotte County, Virginia; † July 21, 1853 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1823 and 1829 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Moore attended the common schools. He then moved with his parents to Harrodsburg in Kentucky. In his new home state, he continued his education with studies at the Transylvania University in Lexington. During the British - American War of 1812 Moore was an officer in the United States Army. He rose to major on in an infantry unit. Politically, Moore was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In the years 1819 and 1820, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the 1820s he joined the faction of the future President Andrew Jackson, from 1828, the Democratic Party should emerge.

In the congressional elections of 1822 Moore was in the seventh election district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Speed ​​Smith on March 4, 1823. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1829 three legislative periods. From 1825 to 1827 he was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business. His time in Congress was marked by the violent clashes between the supporters of his party and those of President John Quincy Adams.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Moore was appointed by the Andrew Jackson elected president now Minister to Colombia, where he became the successor of William Henry Harrison. This post he held until April 1833. Meanwhile he had been elected in the midterm elections of 1832 in the fifth district of Kentucky again in the U.S. House of Representatives. This choice was however challenged by Robert Letcher. Then new elections were announced, won the Letcher. During the Mexican -American War was Thomas Moore Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. In 1849 and 1850 he was a delegate at the meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Kentucky. Thomas Moore died on July 21, 1853 in Harrodsburg.