R. Walton Moore

Robert Walton Moore (February 6, 1859 - February 8, 1941) was a Virginia lawyer, U.S. Representative from Virginia, and one of the few Virginia politicians to embrace the New Deal.

Born in Fairfax, Virginia, Moore attended the Episcopal High School near Alexandria, Virginia, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity.

More was admitted to the bar in 1880 and practiced in Virginia and Washington, D.C.. He served as a member of the Virginia State Senate for the years 1887-1890, and was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1901 and 1902. He served as president of the Virginia Bar Association in 1911. From 1907 until the First World War was special counsel for carriers of the South in cases before the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Commerce Court, and the United States Supreme Court. He served as assistant general counsel of the United States Railroad Administration in 1918 and 1919.

Moore served as member of the boards of visitors, of both the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia. He was appointed a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution on December 7, 1922.

Moore was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles Creighton Carlin, and reelected to the five succeeding Congresses (April 27, 1919-March 3, 1931). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1930.

He was appointed as Assistant Secretary of State by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, on September 19, 1933, was made counselor in 1937, and served until his death in Fairfax, Virginia, February 8, 1941.

He was interred in Fairfax Cemetery.

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[http://etd.vcu.edu/theses/available/etd-11132006-145326/unrestricted/tullidg_thesis.pdf R. Walton Moore and Virginia Politics: 1933-1941]