Ralph Wilbur Moss was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Indiana

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Biography

He was born on April 21, 1862 in Center Point, Indiana

Center Point, Indiana

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. He was educated in the common schools of the township and attended Purdue University

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 in West Lafayette, Indiana

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, for two years.
He taught school in Sugar Ridge Township.
Principal of the graded schools in Harmony, Indiana

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He subsequently became engaged in agricultural pursuits.
He served as member of the State senate 1905-1909.

Moss was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Sixty-first

61st United States Congress

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 and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1917).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Sixty-second

62nd United States Congress

- House of Representatives :* Democratic : 230 * Republican : 162* Socialist : 1* Independent : 1TOTAL members: 394-Senate:* President: James S...

 Congress).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth

65th United States Congress

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 Congress and for election in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth

66th United States Congress

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 Congress.
He retired to his farm near Ashboro, Indiana

Ashboro, Indiana

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, where he died on April 26, 1919.
He was interred in Moss Cemetery, near his home.