11 Facts About Ely Moore

Ely Moore was an American newspaperman and labor leader who served two terms as a Jacksonian US Representative from New York from 1835 to 1839.

Ely Moore attended public schools, and then moved to New York and studied medicine.

Ely Moore became a printer and an editor of a New York City labor paper.

Ely Moore then was elected the first president of New York City's Federation of Craft Unions in 1833.

Ely Moore supported Van Buren for re-election in 1840, although he lost to William Henry Harrison.

Ely Moore was one of the radical leaders to support the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island in 1842.

Ely Moore became owner and editor of the Warren Journal of his hometown, Belvidere, New Jersey.

Ely Moore was appointed agent for the Miami and other tribes of Indians in the Kansas Territory in 1853.

Ely Moore was appointed register of the United States land office in Lecompton, Kansas, in 1855 and served until 1860.

Ely Moore died in Lecompton, Douglas County, Kansas, on January 27,1860, at the age of 61 and is interred on his farm near Lecompton.

Ely Moore married Emma Coutant, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, in 1824.