William W. Moss
American judge
About William W. Moss
Lived 1872 – 1949 (aged 76–77).
William W. Moss (1872 – December 17, 1949) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from January 1935 to January 1948.
Born in Stonington, Connecticut, Moss received his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1891 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1898. He gained admission to the bar in Rhode Island and Missouri, and practiced in Kansas City, Missouri, until 1902, when he returned to New England. In January 1935, the Democratic Party unexpectedly gained control of the Rhode Island Senate, installing an entirely new five-member court, to which Moss was named as an associate justice. Moss retired from the court in January 1948, due to poor health; the Rhode Island General Assembly passed a measure to provide him with a pension in retirement.
Moss died in his home in Providence at the age of 77, following a brief illness.
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American judge
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William W. Moss was born in 1872.
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William W. Moss died in 1949.
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