Moses Edwin Clapp (May 21, 1851March 6, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician.
Biography
Born in
Delphi, Indiana, Clapp moved with his parents to
Hudson, Wisconsin. He went to
University of Wisconsin Law School and practiced law in Hudson, Wisconsin. He was district attorney for
St. Croix County, Wisconsin
St. Croix County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 93,536. Its county seat is Hudson. The county was created in 1840 (then in the Wisconsin Territory) and organized in 1849. St. Croix County ...
. He then moved to
Fergus Falls, Minnesota, where he practiced law.
He served as the
Minnesota Attorney General
The attorney general of Minnesota is a constitutional officer in the executive branch of the U.S. State of Minnesota. Thirty individuals have held the office of Attorney General since statehood. The incumbent is Keith Ellison, a DFLer.
Electi ...
from 1887 until 1893. In 1900, he entered the special election for
Minnesota
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's seat in the
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and pow ...
that was made vacant by the death of
Cushman Davis
Cushman Kellogg Davis (June 16, 1838November 27, 1900) was an American Republican politician who served as the seventh Governor of Minnesota and as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota.
Early life and American Civil War
Davis was born in Henderson, Ne ...
. He won that election, and was later reelected in 1904 and 1910 for two additional terms. He served in the Senate from January 28, 1901, to March 3, 1917, a term that spanned the
57th,
58th,
59th,
60th,
61st,
62nd,
63rd, and
64th Congresses. He was not renominated by the party in 1916. Clapp, along with
Hiram F. Stevens,
Ambrose Tighe,
Thomas D. O'Brien, and
Clarence Halbert, was also a co-founder of
William Mitchell College of Law.
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1851 births
1929 deaths
People from Delphi, Indiana
Republican Party United States senators from Minnesota
Minnesota Attorneys General
Minnesota lawyers
Wisconsin lawyers
People from Fergus Falls, Minnesota
People from Hudson, Wisconsin
19th-century American lawyers
University of Wisconsin Law School alumni
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