Jeese H. Moore

Jesse Hale Moore is a former member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois. He was born near Lebanon, Illinois on April 22, 1817. Moore graduated from McKendree College, a school in his hometown, in 1842. After receiving his degree, he taught school in [Nashville, Illinois from 1842-1844, and at Georgetown, Illinois from 1844-1848. Moore studied for the ministry and was ordained a Methodist minister in 1849. During the Civil War, he served in the Union Army as colonel of the One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry from September 13, 1862 to June 11, 1865. He was presiding elder of the Decatur district of the Illinois conference in 1868 and resided in Decatur, Illinois. Moore was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1873). He became chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions during the Forty-second Congress. Moore was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress. After leaving Washington, he became a United States pension agent in Springfield, Illinois from 1873-1877. He later served as pastor of Mechanicsburg Methodist Church. Moore was appointed by President Chester Arthur as United States consul at Callao, Peru on October 27, 1881, and served until his death there on July 11, 1883.

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