Edward H. Moore

Edward Hall Moore (November 19, 1871 – September 2, 1950) was an American politician who served as a U.S. senator from Oklahoma between 1943 and 1949 as a member of the Republican Party.

Early years Born on a farm near Maryville, Missouri, Moore attended the public schools and Chillicothe Normal School, where he graduated in 1892. He taught school in Nodaway, Atchinson, and Jackson Counties. Supposedly because he liked to listen to and deliver speeches, he enrolled in the Kansas City School of Law, and graduated in 1900. Moore was admitted to the Missouri bar in 1901 and began practice in Maryville; he moved shortly thereafter to Okmulgee, then a city in Indian Territory, where he became city attorney. He returned to Missouri in 1905 to marry Cora McComb, whom he had met in Chillicothe, Missouri. They came back to Okmulgee, where Moore practiced law until 1919. Meanwhile, he had begun investing in real estate. (Moore eventually parlayed his holdings into a cattle ranch.)

Moore voted in favor of almost all military spending and against all spending for public improvements, including projects slated for Oklahoma. However, he supported programs that would benefit the oil industry. He unsuccessfully tried to prevent Leland Olds from being confirmed for a second term as chairman of the Federal Power Commission, saying that Olds was "opposed fundamentally to private enterprise" and "Communistic".

Moore did not run for reelection in 1948, being succeeded by Democrat Robert S. Kerr, and retired from public life and political activities. That same year, he was voted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, when he was lauded as a "...statesman and philanthropist."

Death He died in Tulsa on September 2, 1950, and was interred in Okmulgee Cemetery.