Joseph Hampton Moore (March 8, 1864 – May 2, 1950) was the 83rd and 85th

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and a Republican member of the

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from

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Biography

J. Hampton Moore was born in

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. He worked as a reporter on the ''

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'' and the ''Court Combination'' from 1881 to 1894. He was chief clerk to the city treasurer of

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from 1894 to 1897 and secretary to the mayor in 1900. 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

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as the first Chief of the Bureau of Manufactures,

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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

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Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of

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. He was re-elected seven times and served from November 6, 1906, to January 4, 1920, when he resigned to become the 109th

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. He was a delegate to the

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. Elected in 1919, Moore first served as mayor of Philadelphia from 1920 to 1924. He was then appointed by the

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as a delegate to the International Navigation Congress at

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, in 1926. After being defeated in 1927, he returned to the mayor's office in Philadelphia following a victory in the 1931 Philadelphia mayoral election, serving from 1932 to 1936 as its 111th incumbent. Moore was responsible for Pennsylvania being one of only six states to be carried by President

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in his overwhelming defeat in the 1932 presidential election. The mayor was able to get enough Philadelphia voters out on Election Day to tip the state Republican, preserving an unbroken streak of Pennsylvania not voting Democratic in a presidential election since

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(this would end as the state was carried by President

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in the following 1936 presidential election). During his terms as mayor, Moore banned the showing of films by

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because the charges pending against Arbuckle for rape and murder would offend public morals. This motion occurred concurrent with Arbuckle's arrest, prior to Arbuckle's trial and eventual acquittal.

Legacy

Moore was one of three mayors of Philadelphia the city honored by naming a fireboat after him. An elementary school, located at Summerdale and Longshore Avenues in Philadelphia, was built and named after him in the 1950s. It is still in operation today

Works (partial list)

Roosevelt and the Old Guard
(1925)

Bibliography

*Drayer, Robert E. "J. Hampton Moore: An Old Fashioned Republican." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1961.

References

External links

* Th
J. Hampton Moore Papers
including correspondence, political papers, documents and other materials, are available for research use at the

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