Wyman Bradbury Seavy Moor (November 11, 1811 March 10, 1869) was an American politician

Politics of the United States

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 and lawyer

Law of the United States

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 from the U.S. state

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 of Maine

Maine

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. His political career, interspersed with periods in private law practice, began with his service in the Maine House of Representatives

Maine House of Representatives

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, and continued when he became Attorney General of Maine. Moor married Clara Ann Niel Cook (b. 1813 in Waterville, Maine) in 1834. She was a descendant of Thomas Dudley

Thomas Dudley

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, one of the Governors of Massachusetts Bay Colony

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.

Moor was appointed as a Democrat

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 to the U.S. Senate

United States Senate

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 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Fairfield

John Fairfield

John Fairfield was a U.S. politician from Maine.He was born in Saco, Maine and attended the Saco schools, Thornton Academy and Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He then engaged in trade and studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1826, and practiced successfully in his native town and in...

. In later years he was the superintendent of a railroad construction project in Maine and was appointed by President

President of the United States

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 James Buchanan

James Buchanan

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 as consul-general to British North America

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 (i.e. Canada

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). After he left this position he retired from public life and relocated to Lynchburg

Lynchburg, Virginia

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, Virginia

Virginia

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, where he had purchased an estate and became involved in an iron

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 furnace operation and lived out his remaining years.

Moor was born in Waterville

Waterville, Maine

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 in Kennebec County

Kennebec County, Maine

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. During his political career he lived in Bangor, Maine

Bangor, Maine

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