Littleton Wilde Moore was a U.S. Representative

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 from Texas

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Born in Marion County, Alabama

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, Moore moved with his parents to Mississippi in 1836.
He was graduated from the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1855.
He studied law and was admitted to the bar

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 in 1857.
He moved to Texas in 1857 and commenced practice in Bastrop.
He served as captain in the Confederate States Army

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 throughout the Civil War

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Moore was elected to the State constitutional convention in 1875.
He served as district judge 1876-1885.

Moore was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Fiftieth

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, Fifty-first

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, and Fifty-second

52nd United States Congress

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 Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1893).
He resumed the practice of his profession.
He was appointed judge of the twenty-second judicial district in 1901 and served until his death in Lagrange, Texas, October 29, 1911.
He was interred in the City Cemetery.

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