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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkMOORE, Ely
(1798—1860)
MOORE, Ely, a Representative from New York; born near Belvidere, Warren County, N.J., July 4, 1798; attended the public schools; moved to New York City; studied medicine, but did not engage in extensive practice; became a printer and subsequently became editor of the National Trades Union, a labor paper in New York City; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1839); political editor of the New York Evening Post in 1838 and 1839; president of the board of trade and surveyor of the port of New York City 1839-1845; appointed by President Polk United States marshal for the southern district of New York in 1845; became owner and editor of the Warren Journal of Belvidere, N.J.; appointed agent for the Miami and other tribes of Indians in Kansas in 1853; appointed register of the United States land office in Lecompton, Kans., in 1855 and served until 1860; died in Lecompton, Douglas County, Kans., January 27, 1860; interment on his farm near Lecompton.
Bibliography
Hugins, Walter Edward. “Ely Moore: The Case History of a Jacksonian Labor Leader.”Political Science Quarterly
65 (March 1950): 105-25.
Hugins, Walter Edward. “Ely Moore: The Case History of a Jacksonian Labor Leader.” Political Science Quarterly
65 (March 1950): 105-25.
Moore, Ely. Address delivered before the General Trades’ Union of the City of New-York
. New-York: J. Ormond, printer, [1833].
———. Address on civil government: Delivered before the New York Typographical Society, February 25th, 1847. At the Society library lecture room
. New-York: Printed by B.R. Barlow, 1847.
———. Oration delivered before the mechanics and workingmen of the city of New York, on the fourth of July, 1843, in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Greene Street
. New-York: J. Windt, 1843.
———. Remarks of Mr. Ely Moore, of New York, in the House of Representatives, February 4, 1839, on presenting a remonstrance from citizens of the District of Columbia against the reception of abolition petitions, &c.
[Washington?: N.p., 1839].
———. Reply to a pamphlet entitled
“A statement of facts in relation to the origin, progress and prospects of the New-York and Harlaem rail road company.” New-York: Printed by P. Van Pelt, 1833.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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