J. Hampton Moore

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Add: Moore was born March 8 1864 in Woodbury New Jersey to Mary Jane Dorff and Joseph Borton Moore The family moved to Camden New Jersey where his father operated a grocery store He was educated in a country school in Woodbury and attended Richard. Add: He served as president of the Allied Republican Clubs of Philadelphia of the Pennsylvania State League and of the National League of Republican Clubs from 1900 to 1906 He worked as city treasurer from 1901 to 1903 He was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as the first Chief of the Bureau of Manufactures Department of Commerce and Labor in January 1905 but resigned after six months service to become president of a Philadelphia bank He was president of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association from 1907 to 1947 Moore was elected as a Republican to the 59th Congress to fill.

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