Thomas Love Moore
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Thomas Love Moore (died 1862) was a nineteenth-century congressman and lawyer from Virginia.
Born near Charles Town, Virginia, Moore pursued an academic course as a child, studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was elected a Democratic-Republican to the United States House of Representatives to fill a vacancy, serving from 1820 to 1823. Afterwards, Moore continued practicing law in Warrenton, Virginia and made the principal speech upon the visit of General La Fayette to the town on August 23, 1825. He died in Warrenton in 1862 and was interred there in Warrenton Cemetery.
External links
[edit]- United States Congress. "Thomas Love Moore (id: M000920)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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- 1862 deaths
- Virginia lawyers
- Lawyers from Charles Town, West Virginia
- People from Warrenton, Virginia
- Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia
- 19th-century American legislators
- 19th-century Virginia politicians
- Politicians from Charles Town, West Virginia
- Virginia United States Representative stubs