Biography

04/12/1856 - 06/03/1926

MOORE, John Philips, a Representative from Allegheny County; born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., April 12, 1856; attended, Duff’s Iron City College; bricklayer; general manager, Knoxville Land and Improvement Company; treasurer, Knoxville Incline Plane Company; delegate, Republican National Convention (1888); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1901 term; reelected to serve for 3 more consecutive terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1908); elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1913-October, 1915); elected, controller, Allegheny County (1915-1926); elected, justice of the peace; elected, burgess, Knoxville; died, June 3, 1926 in Knoxville, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Mount Lebanon, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.