Jesse Hale Moore
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Jesse Hale Moore (April 22, 1817 - July 11, 1883) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born near Lebanon, St. Clair County, Illinois, Moore graduated from McKendree College, Lebanon, Illinois, in 1842. He taught school in Nashville, Illinois from 1842 to 1844. And at Georgetown, Illinois from 1844 to 1848. He studied for the ministry and was ordained a Methodist minister in 1849. He served in the Union Army as colonel of the One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, September 13, 1862. Honorably mustered out June 11, 1865. Presiding elder of the Decatur district of the Illinois conference in 1868 and resided in Decatur, Illinois.
Moore was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1873). He served as chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions (Forty-second Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress. United States pension agent, Springfield, Illinois from 1873 to 1877. He served as pastor of Mechanicsburg (Illinois) Methodist Church. He was appointed by President Arthur as United States consul at Callao, Peru, October 27, 1881, and served until his death there on July 11, 1883. He was interred in Callao, Peru. He was reinterred in Greenwood Cemetery, Decatur, Illinois.
