James Moyle

Moyle's former residence in Washington, D.C.

James Henry Moyle (September 17, 1858 – February 20, 1946)[1] was a prominent American politician in Utah.

Biography

Moyle was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory to a Cornish American family.[2] He was the grandson of John Rowe Moyle, a Mormon pioneer and master stonemason for the Salt Lake Temple.[3][4][5] From about 1879-1881 Moyle served as a missionary in North Carolina for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He then went to the University of Michigan where he received a law degree.[6]

Politics

Moyle was the founder of the Utah Democratic Party.[1] He was the Democratic Party's candidate for governor in the 1908 Utah election. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1917 to 1921 in the administration of Woodrow Wilson, the first member of the LDS Church to be appointed to a subcabinet position.[7] He would later return to this position during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration.[1]

Church service

From 1928 to 1933 he served as president of the Eastern States Mission of the LDS Church. This mission then covered New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware the District of Columbia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Jersey.[8] During his administration West Virginia and Western Maryland were separated off into the East Central States Mission.

Death

Moyle died in 1946 at the age of 87. His son Henry D. Moyle became an Apostle of the LDS Church in 1947.[9]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "James H. Moyle, 87, Treasury Ex-Aide; Former Assistant Secretary Dies". The New York Times. February 21, 1946. p. 21. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  2. ↑ Rowse, A. L. The Cousin Jacks, The Cornish in America.
  3. ↑ "John Rowe Moyle". Ancestry.com. 2013. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
  4. ↑ "James Moyle". Ancestry.com. 2013. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
  5. ↑ "James Henry Moyle". Ancestry.com. 2013. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
  6. ↑ Sessions, Gene A. (October 20, 2010). "excerpt - Mormon Democrat". Signature Books. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
  7. ↑ Winder, Michael K., Presidents and Prophets: The Story of America's Presidents and the LDS Church. (American Fork: Covenant Communications, 2007) p. 210
  8. ↑ Jenson, Andrew (1941). Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press. pp. 204, 211.
  9. ↑ LDS Church Almanac

References

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