A. Harry Moore

Infobox Governor
name = Arthur Harry Moore


caption =
order = 39^th
office = Governor of New Jersey
term_start = January 19, 1926
term_end = January 15, 1929
predecessor = George Sebastian Silzer
successor = Morgan Foster Larson
term_start2 = January 19, 1932
term_end2 = January 3, 1935
predecessor2 = Morgan Foster Larson
successor2 = Harold G. Hoffman
term_start3 = January 18, 1938
term_end3 = January 21, 1941
predecessor3 = Harold G. Hoffman
successor3 = Charles Edison
office4 = U.S. Senator (Class 1) from New Jersey
term_start4 = January 3, 1935
term_end4 = January 17, 1938
predecessor4 = Hamilton Fish Kean
successor4 = John G. Milton
birth_date = July 3, 1879
birth_place = Jersey City, New Jersey
death_date = November 18, 1952
death_place = Branchburg Township, New Jersey
party = Democratic
spouse = Jennie Hastings Stevens
religion = Christian Reform

Arthur Harry Moore (Jersey City, New Jersey in July 3, 1879ndash Branchburg Township, New Jersey in November 18, 1952) was a Democrat who was the 39th Governor of New Jersey, serving three terms between 1926 and 1941. He was the longest serving New Jersey Governor in the 20th century and the only New Jersey Governor elected to serve three separate non-consecutive terms. Moore represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from January 3, 1935, to January 17, 1938, when he stepped down to begin his third term as Governor of New Jersey.

A. Harry Moore attended public schools and graduated from Cooper Union in New York City. Moore later graduated from the New Jersey Law School at Newark (now a part of Rutgers University) and was admitted to the bar in 1922, commencing practice in Jersey City.

Political career

*1908 to 1911, secretary to the mayor of Jersey City.
*1911 to 1913, city collector
*1913 to 1925, Jersey City commissioner
*1926 to 1928, Governor of New Jersey
*1932 to 1935, Governor of New Jersey
*1935 to 1938, United States Senator
*1938 to 1941, Governor of New Jersey

As governor, Moore attained national prominence when he took charge of the investigation into the Lindbergh kidnapping in 1932. After retiring as governor, Moore resumed his legal practice in Jersey City.

Moore died on November 18, 1952 and was buried at New York Bay Cemetery in Jersey City.

ee also

*List of Governors of New Jersey

External links

* [http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Governors_of_New_Jersey/GMOOR.pdf Biography of A. Harry Moore (PDF)] , New Jersey State Library
* [http://members.bellatlantic.net/%7Evze2rdt7/DGovs/deadgovernorsnj.html#moore Dead Governors of New Jersey bio for A. Harry Moore]