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Senate Years of Service: 1945-1945 Party: Democrat
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MOSES, John, a Senator from North Dakota; born in Strand, Norway, June 12, 1885; attended
the public schools and graduated from Junior College, Oslo, Norway; immigrated to the United States
in 1905 and settled in Benson, Swift County, Minn.; worked as a laborer, farm hand, clerk, and
freight-claim investigator; secretary of the State Teachers College, Valley City, N.Dak., 1911-1913;
graduated from the law school of the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks in 1915; admitted to
the bar in 1915 and practiced law in Hope and Hebron, N.Dak., before moving to Hazen, N.Dak., in
1917; also engaged in agricultural pursuits and banking; States attorney of Mercer County, N.Dak.,
1919-1923 and 1927-1933; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1936; elected Governor in 1938
and reelected in 1940 and 1942; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1944 and
served from January 3, 1945, until his death on March 3, 1945, at Rochester, Minn., where he had
gone for an operation; interment in St. Marys Cemetery, Bismarck, N.Dak.
BibliographySchweitzer, Adam. John Moses and the New Deal in
North Dakota. Masters thesis, University of North Dakota, 1954; U.S. Congress. Memorial
Services. 79th Cong., 1st sess. 1947. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1947.
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