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Hunter Holmes Moss Jr. (May 26, 1874 – July 15, 1916) was a
Hunter H. Moss, Jr., late a representative from West Virginia, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1917
Hunter Holmes Moss Jr. (May 26, 1874 – July 15, 1916) was a lawyer
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and Republican politician
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from West Virginia
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who served as a United States representative
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. Moss was born in Parkersburg in Wood County, West Virginia
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. He was a member of the 63rd 63rd may refer to:
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and 64th United States congresses
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Moss attended the public schools and worked in a bank in early youth. He was admitted to the bar after graduating from the law department of West Virginia University
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at Morgantown in 1896. The same year, he opened his legal practice in Parkersburg.
He served as prosecuting attorney
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for Wood County from 1900 to 1904. In 1904, Moss became a judge serving on the Fourth circuit court
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of West Virginia until 1912. In that year, he was elected to Congress as a Republican. He served from March 4, 1913, until his death in Atlantic City
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, New Jersey
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. He is interred at Odd Fellows Cemetery in Parkersburg.
Moss was an uncle of the American journalist
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and historian
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Holmes Alexander, a former member of the Maryland House of Delegates
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See also
*United States congressional delegations from West Virginia
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*List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
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Sources
Hunter H. Moss, Jr., late a representative from West Virginia, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1917
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