Moses Edwin Clapp (May 21, 1851March 6, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician.

Biography

Born in

Delphi, Indiana Delphi () is a city in and the county seat of Carroll County, Indiana, Carroll County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Located twenty minutes northeast of Lafayette, Indiana, Lafayette, it is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Lafayette, Indiana metro ...

, Clapp moved with his parents to

Hudson, Wisconsin Hudson is a city in and the county seat of St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 14,755. It is part of the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area. History Several Li ...

. He went to

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and practiced law in Hudson, Wisconsin. He was district attorney for St. Croix County, Wisconsin. He then moved to

Fergus Falls, Minnesota Fergus Falls ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Otter Tail County, Minnesota, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 14,119 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, and was estimated to be 14,258 in 2024. Hi ...

, where he practiced law. He served as the

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from 1887 until 1893. In 1900, he entered the special election for

Minnesota Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...

's seat in the

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that was made vacant by the death of Cushman Davis. He won that election, and was later reelected in 1904 and 1910 for two additional terms. He served in the Senate from January 28, 1901, to March 3, 1917, a term that spanned the 57th, 58th, 59th, 60th, 61st, 62nd, 63rd, and 64th Congresses. He was not renominated by the party in 1916. Clapp, along with Hiram F. Stevens, Ambrose Tighe, Thomas D. O'Brien, and Clarence Halbert, was also a co-founder of

William Mitchell College of Law William Mitchell College of Law was a private law school from 1956 to 2015 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA), it offered full- and part-time legal education in pursuit of the Juris Doctor (J. ...

. In 1906, he presented ''A Brief History of the Delaware Indians'' by Richard C. Adams for publication to the 59th Congress.

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* * 1851 births 1929 deaths People from Delphi, Indiana Republican Party United States senators from Minnesota Minnesota attorneys general Minnesota lawyers Wisconsin lawyers People from Fergus Falls, Minnesota People from Hudson, Wisconsin 19th-century American lawyers University of Wisconsin Law School alumni 20th-century United States senators {{Minnesota-politician-stub