Merrill Moores

Template:Short description Merrill Moores (April 21, 1856 – October 21, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1915 to 1925.

Biography

Moores was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and received his education in public schools. He attended Butler University and Willamette University before graduating from Yale University in 1878. He later earned a law degree from the Central Law School of Indiana (now Indiana Law School) in Indianapolis in 1880. That same year he was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in Indianapolis.

From 1892 to 1896, Moores served as chairman of the Marion County Republican committee. He went on to become the assistant attorney general of Indiana from 1894 to 1903. In 1908, he served as president of both the Indiana State Bar Association and the Indianapolis Bar Association. He served as Indiana commissioner of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws from 1909 to 1925. He served as member of the executive council of the Interparliamentary Union in 1919.

Congress

Moores was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1925). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1924 and for nomination in 1926.

Later career and death

After leaving Congress, Moores resumed the practice of law in Indianapolis. He served as vice president of the American Systems and Audit Co.

Moores died on October 21, 1929, in Indianapolis. He was interred in Crown Hill Cemetery.