Henry DeHaven Moorman (June 9, 1880 – February 3, 1939) was a

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from

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. Born on a farm near Glen Dean, Kentucky, Moorman attended the public schools. He studied law. He was

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in 1900 and commenced practice in Hardinsburg. He also engaged in agricultural pursuits and in banking. County judge of Breckinridge County 1905–1909 and Commonwealth attorney of the ninth judicial district 1914–1927. He served in the

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as a private in Company C, First Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, with service in Puerto Rico. During the

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enlisted in the

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on January 14, 1918, and was assigned to Headquarters Company, Tenth Field Artillery. He was promoted to corporal and assigned to duty with the Judge Advocate General, Headquarters, Service of Supply, and was discharged April 1, 1919. Moorman was elected as a

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to the Seventieth Congress (March 4, 1927 – March 3, 1929). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress. He resumed his former professional and business pursuits in

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. He died while on a visit in

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, February 3, 1939. He was interred in Ivy Hill Cemetery,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moorman, Henry DeHaven 1880 births 1939 deaths United States Army soldiers Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky People from Breckinridge County, Kentucky People from Hardinsburg, Kentucky 20th-century American politicians