Overview
Marshall Frank Moore was an American Civil War veteran, attorney, and the seventh Governor of Washington Territory.
Biography
Moore was born in Binghamton, New York, Broome County, on . He attended Yale University. He married Francis Fanny Van Trump on . The couple had three children; Mary Louise, Frances, and Thomas.
Career
Moore served as a state judge in the Common Pleas Court and as a prosecuting attorney in Sioux City, Iowa.
Moore joined the Union Army during the civil war and served under George McClellan in Virginia and under Sherman. The colonel commanded the 69th Ohio Infantry Regiment and led various brigades for much of the war. He was at Rich Mountain, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Jonesboro and Missionary Ridge. He resigned in 1864 and was brevetted major general on .
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