Hunter Holmes Moss Jr. (May 26, 1874 – July 15, 1916) was a

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from

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who served as a

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. Moss was born in

Parkersburg Parkersburg is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, West Virginia. Located at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers, it is the state's fourth-largest city and the largest city in the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna metro ...

in Wood County,

. He was a member of the 63rd and 64th United States congresses. Moss attended the public schools and worked in a bank in early youth. He was admitted to the bar after graduating from the law department of

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at Morgantown in 1896. The same year, he opened his legal practice in Parkersburg. He served as

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for Wood County from 1900 to 1904. In 1904, Moss became a judge serving on the Fourth circuit court of West Virginia until 1912. In that year, he was elected to Congress as a Republican. He served from March 4, 1913, until his death in

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. He is interred at Odd Fellows Cemetery in Parkersburg. Moss was an uncle of the American

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and

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Holmes Alexander Holmes Moss Alexander (January 29, 1906 – December 5, 1985) was an American historian, journalist, syndicated columnist, and politician, originally from Parkersburg, West Virginia. The son of Charles Butler Alexander, an insurance official, ...

, a former member of the

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Hunter H. Moss, Jr., late a representative from West Virginia, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1917
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