Tom Van Horn Moorehead Explained

Tom Moorehead
Birth Date:April 12, 1898
Birth Place:Zanesville, Ohio
Death Place:Zanesville, Ohio
Restingplace:Greenwood Cemetery, Zanesville
State:Ohio
District:15th
Term:January 3, 1961 - January 3, 1963
Preceded:John E. Henderson
Succeeded:Robert T. Secrest
State Senate2:Ohio
State2:Ohio
District2:20th
Term2:January 3, 1967-December 31, 1968
Preceded2:Districts Created
Succeeded2:Robert T. Secrest
Party:Republican
Alma Mater:Ohio Wesleyan University
George Washington University

Tom Van Horn Moorehead (April 12, 1898 – October 21, 1979) was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio from 1961 to 1963.

Biography

Moorehead was born in Zanesville, Ohio. He attended the public schools, Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and George Washington University at Washington, D.C. During the First World War, he served in United States Naval Aviation Corps. He was engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Zanesville, and served as a member of city council and mayor of Zanesville. He was a member of the Ohio Senate serving eight terms.

Congress

Moorehead was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress.

Death

He resided in Zanesville, where he died October 21, 1979. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery.

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