Marshall Frank Moore (12 February 182926 February 1870) was an

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veteran, attorney, and the seventh Governor of

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Biography

Moore was born in

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, Broome County, on 12 February 1829. He attended

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. He married Francis Fanny Van Trump on 7 June 1859. The couple had three children; Mary Louise, Frances, and Thomas.

Career

Moore served as a state judge in the Common Pleas Court and as a prosecuting attorney in

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. Moore joined the Union Army during the civil war and served under

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in Virginia and under

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. The colonel commanded the

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and led various brigades for much of the war. He was at Rich Mountain, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Jonesboro and Missionary Ridge. He resigned in 1864 and was brevetted major general on 13 March 1865. Moore was Governor of

from 1867 to 1869. He was accompanied to

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, by his brother-in-law, Philemon Beecher Van Trump, who served as Moore's private secretary. Moore was a delegate to the

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from

in 1868. He also was an attorney in

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Death

Moore died in Olympia, Thurston County, Washington, on 26 February 1870. He is interred at Masonic Memorial Park, Tumwater, Thurston County, Washington.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Marshall F. 1829 births 1870 deaths 19th-century Iowa state court judges 19th-century American lawyers Governors of Washington Territory Iowa state court judges Lawyers from Binghamton, New York People of New York (state) in the American Civil War Politicians from Binghamton, New York Union army colonels