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  Moss, Ralph Wilbur
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AffiliationDemocratic   
NameRalph Wilbur Moss
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Ashboro, Indiana , United States
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Born April 21, 1862
DiedApril 26, 1919 (57 years)
ContributorThomas Walker
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Dec 27, 2014 08:54pm
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InfoMOSS, Ralph Wilbur, a Representative from Indiana; born in Center Point, Clay County, Ind., April 21, 1862; educated in the common schools of the township and attended Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., for two years; taught school in Sugar Ridge Township; principal of the graded schools in Harmony, Ind.; subsequently became engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State senate 1905-1909; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1917); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Sixty-second Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress and for election in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; retired to his farm near Ashboro, Clay County, Ind., where he died on April 26, 1919; interment in Moss Cemetery, near his home.



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  11/05/1918 IN - District 05 Lost 47.85% (-2.63%)
  11/07/1916 IN District 5 Lost 39.25% (-1.37%)
  11/03/1914 IN - District 05 Won 45.91% (+8.92%)
  11/05/1912 IN - District 05 Won 45.16% (+18.91%)
  11/08/1910 IN - District 05 Won 51.64% (+9.27%)
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