MOORE, Gabriel (1785-1844)

Anti-Jacksonian of Alabama

0th congressional district

Served in Senate 1831-1837

Served in House 1821-1829

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Biography

A Representative and a Senator from Alabama; born in Stokes County, N.C., around 1785; pursued an academic course and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1810; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in Huntsville, Mississippi Territory; member, Mississippi and then Alabama Territorial house of representatives and served as speaker in 1817; delegate to the Alabama State constitutional convention in 1819; member, Alabama State senate 1819-1820, and served as speaker in 1820; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, reelected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Nineteenth and to the succeeding Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1829); was not a candidate for renomination in 1828; Governor of Alabama 1829-1831; elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1831, to March 3, 1837; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Twenty-second through Twenty-fourth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for election in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress; was a resident of Swanson's Landing in Harrison County, Tex., until his death on August 6, 1844; interment on the plantation of Peter Swanson, near Caddo Lake, Harrison County, Tex.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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