Jesse Hale Moore (April 22, 1817 – July 11, 1883) was a

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from

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. He also served as an officer in the

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during the

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Biography

Born near Lebanon, St. Clair County, Illinois, Moore graduated from

McKendree College McKendree University (McK) is a private university in Lebanon, Illinois. Founded in 1828 as the Lebanon Seminary, it is the oldest college or university in Illinois. McKendree enrolls approximately 2,300 undergraduates and nearly 700 graduate ...

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, in 1842. He taught school in

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from 1842 to 1844 and at

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from 1844 to 1848. He studied for the ministry and was ordained a Methodist minister in 1849. Moore served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was appointed

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of the 115th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment on September 13, 1862. Moore led the regiment into its first major action at the

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. He participated in the Atlanta Campaign and the battles of

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and

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the following year. He was honorably mustered out June 11, 1865 with a

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promotion to

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. Moore served as Presiding elder of the Decatur district of the Illinois conference in 1868 and resided in

Decatur, Illinois Decatur ( ) is the largest city and the county seat of Macon County in the U.S. state of Illinois, with a population of 70,522 as of the 2020 Census. The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Ce ...

. He was elected as a

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to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1873). He served as chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions (Forty-second Congress) and was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress. Later he served as a United States pension agent in

Springfield, Illinois Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh most-populous city, the second largest o ...

from 1873 to 1877. He served as pastor of Mechanicsburg (Illinois) Methodist Church and was appointed by President Arthur as United States consul at Callao, Peru, October 27, 1881, and served until his death there on July 11, 1883. He was interred in Callao, Peru but was reinterred in Greenwood Cemetery,

. He had at least one child, a daughter,

Alice Moore McComas Alice Moore McComas (, Moore; June 18, 1850 – December 19, 1919) was an American author, editor, lecturer and reformer. She was a pioneer suffragist in California and served as president of the Los Angeles Equal Suffrage Association. During the v ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Jesse Hale McKendree University alumni 1817 births 1883 deaths People from Lebanon, Illinois Politicians from Springfield, Illinois People from Decatur, Illinois Union Army colonels Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois Ambassadors of the United States to Peru 19th-century American legislators People from Georgetown, Illinois Military personnel from Illinois