Sydenham Moore
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 4th district | |
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| Preceded by | William R. Smith |
| Succeeded by | District inactive |
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| Resting place | City Cemetery, Greensboro, Alabama |
| Party | Democratic |
| University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa | |
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| Battles/wars | Mexican–American War American Civil War |
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Sydenham Moore (May 25, 1817 – August 20, 1862) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Alabama.[1]
Biography
Moore was born on May 25, 1817, in Rutherford County, Tennessee. He studied law at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa from 1833 to 1836. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Greensboro, Alabama. He owned slaves.[2] He served as judge of Greene County court 1840-1846 and 1848-1850. He served as judge of the circuit court in 1857. He served in the war with Mexico as captain in Colonel Coffey's regiment of Alabama Infantry from June 1846 to June 1847. Moore was elected brigadier general of Alabama Militia.[1]
A Democrat, Moore to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1857, until January 21, 1861, when he withdrew.[1]
During the Amerixan Civil War, Moore served as colonel of the 11th Regiment Alabama Infantry in the Confederate States Army. He died on August 20, 1862, aged 45, in Richmond, Virginia, from wounds received in the Battle of Seven Pines, May 31, 1862. He was interred in the City Cemetery, Greensboro, Alabama.[1] Moore's journal and other personal papers remain in Montgomery, Alabama, at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.[3]
References
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.United States Congress. "Sydenham Moore (id: M000918)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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Notes
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- ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Moore, Sydenham, (1817 - 1862)". United States Congress. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, 2022-01-13, retrieved 2022-07-06
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sydenham Moore family papers". Alabama Department of Archives & History. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
External links
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- Letter from Sydenham Moore in Virginia, to his wife, Amanda May 9, 1862.
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