Moses E. Clapp

Moses Edwin Clapp
Moses Edwin Clapp
United States Senator ; from Minnesota
	In office; January 28, 1901 – March 3, 1917
Preceded by	Charles A. Towne
Succeeded by	Frank B. Kellogg
8th Minnesota Attorney General
	In office; 1887–1893
Governor	Andrew R. McGill; William R. Merriam
Preceded by	William J. Hahn
Succeeded by	Henry W. Childs
Personal details
Born	May 21, 1851; Delphi, Indiana
Died	March 6, 1929 (aged 77)
Nationality	American
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin, Madison

Moses Edwin Clapp (May 21, 1851 – March 6, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician.

Biography

Born in Delphi, Indiana, Clapp moved with his parents to Hudson, Wisconsin. He went to University of Wisconsin Law School and practiced law in Hudson, Wisconsin. He was district attorney for St. Croix County, Wisconsin. He then moved to Fergus Falls, Minnesota, where he practiced law.

He served as the Minnesota Attorney General from 1887 until 1893. In 1900, he entered the special election for Minnesota's seat in the United States Senate that was made vacant by the death of Cushman Davis. He won that election, and was later reelected in 1904 and 1910 for two additional terms.

He served in the Senate from January 28, 1901, to March 3, 1917, a term that spanned the 57th, 58th, 59th, 60th, 61st, 62nd, 63rd, and 64th Congresses.^[1] He was not renominated by the party in 1916. Clapp, along with Hiram F. Stevens, Ambrose Tighe, Thomas D. O'Brien, and Clarence Halbert, was also a co-founder of William Mitchell College of Law.

In 1906, he presented A Brief History of the Delaware Indians by Richard C. Adams for publication to the 59th Congress.^[2]

References

^ "S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903". GovInfo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. November 9, 1903. pp. 55–56. Retrieved July 2, 2023.
^ Adams, Richard Calmit (1906). A Brief History of the Delaware Indians. U.S. Government Printing Office.

External links

United States Congress. "Moses E. Clapp (id: C000414)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Works by or about Moses E. Clapp at the Internet Archive

Legal offices
Preceded by William J. Hahn	Minnesota Attorney General 1887–1893	Succeeded by Henry W. Childs
U.S. Senate
Preceded by Charles A. Towne	U.S. senator (Class 1) from Minnesota 1901–1917 Served alongside: Knute Nelson	Succeeded by Frank B. Kellogg

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[cd-1] "S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903". GovInfo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. November 9, 1903. pp. 55–56. Retrieved July 2, 2023.

[2] Adams, Richard Calmit (1906). A Brief History of the Delaware Indians. U.S. Government Printing Office.

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