Allen Francis Moore (September 30, 1869 – August 18, 1945) was a

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from

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. Moore was born in St. Charles,

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. In 1870, he moved to

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with his parents, who settled in

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, where he attended the common schools. He graduated from the Monticello High School in 1886 and from

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, in 1889. He engaged in the manufacture of proprietary medicines and later in banking. He served as trustee of the

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from 1908 to 1914. Moore was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1925). He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1924 to the

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. He served as member of the

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in 1925, and resumed his former business pursuits in Monticello, Illinois. He moved to

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, in 1939 and engaged in

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development until his death there August 18, 1945. He was interred in Monticello Cemetery, Monticello, Illinois.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Allen Francis 1869 births 1945 deaths People from St. Charles, Illinois Lombard College alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois Politicians from San Antonio People from Monticello, Illinois 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives