Moses F. Odell

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Moses Fowler Odell (February 24, 1818 - June 13, 1866) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Tarrytown, New York, Odell completed preparatory studies. He was appointed entry clerk in the New York customhouse in 1845 and became public appraiser.

Odell was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1865). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Thirty-seventh Congress). He was appointed Navy agent at the city of New York in 1865 and served until his death in Brooklyn, New York, June 13, 1866. He was interred in Greenwood Cemetery.

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• Moses F. Odell at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress