J. Hampton Moore

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J. Hampton Moore
George Castor
Succeeded byHarry C. Ransley
Personal details
Born
Joseph Hampton Moore

March 8, 1864
Woodbury, New Jersey, US
DiedMay 2, 1950 (age 86)
Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, US
Political partyRepublican
Photo from With Speaker Cannon through the tropics : a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions (1907)

Joseph Hampton Moore (March 8, 1864 – May 2, 1950) was the 108th and 111th[citation needed] Mayor of Philadelphia and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

J. Hampton Moore was born in

Department of Commerce
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 59th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George A. Castor. He was re-elected seven times and served from November 6, 1906, to January 4, 1920, when he resigned to become the 109th mayor of Philadelphia. He was a delegate to the 1920 Republican National Convention.

Elected

Cairo, Egypt, 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

1936 presidential election
.

During his terms as mayor, Moore banned the showing of films by Roscoe Arbuckle 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.[1]

Legacy

Moore was one of three mayors of Philadelphia the city honored by naming a fireboat after him.[2] An elementary school, located at Summerdale and Longshore Avenues in Philadelphia, was built and named after him in the 1950's. It is still in operation today

Bibliography

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

References

  1. ^ Young, Donald Ramsey (1922). Motion Pictures: A Study in Social Legislation. Philadelphia: Westbrook Publishing Co. pp. 60. Roscoe Arbuckle.
  2. ^ "Patrolling the Delaware: Philadelphia's Fireboats". Firemans Hall. 2015-03-03. Archived from the original on 2016-08-22. Retrieved 2018-09-05. The boats were originally named after mayors, J. Hampton Moore, Bernard Samuels and Stuart were all Philadelphia mayors.

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district

1906–1920
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Mayor of Philadelphia
1920–1923
Succeeded by
Preceded by Mayor of Philadelphia
1932–1935
Succeeded by