Biography

06/20/1858 - 09/03/1918

MOORE, Robert J., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, June 20, 1858 in Ireland; printer; elected, school board, Philadelphia (1888-1891); water auditor, office of the Controller, Philadelphia; elected, delegate, Republican State Convention (1891, 1892); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1892; resigned from the House, June 21, 1893; gas auditor, office of the Controller, Philadelphia (1893-1897); elected, city magistrate, Philadelphia (1897-1908); elected, commissioner, Philadelphia County (1909-1918); died, September 3, 1918 in Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey; interred, West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.