Monday, December 26, 2011

With Speaker Cannon Through the Tropics

Moore, J. Hampton, With Speaker Cannon through the tropics: a descriptive story of a voyage to the West Indies, Venezuela and Panama: containing views of the Speaker upon our colonial possessions, Philadelphia: The Book Print, 1907.

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Cited in Incurring a Debt of Gratitude: 1898 and the Moral Sources of United States Hegemony in Cuba, by Louis A. Pérez, Jr.

John Hampton:
Moore was elected as a Republican to the 59th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George A. Castor. He was re-elected to the Sixtieth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from November 6, 1906, to January 4, 1920, when he resigned to become Mayor of Philadelphia. He was a delegate to the 1920 Republican National Convention.

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