Ralph W. Moss (U.S. Representative)

This article is about the U.S. Representative. For the author, see Ralph W. Moss (writer).

Ralph Wilbur Moss (April 21, 1862 April 26, 1919) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.

He was born in Center Point, Indiana. He was educated in the common schools of the township and attended Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, for two years. He taught school in Sugar Ridge Township. Principal of the graded schools in Harmony, Indiana. He subsequently became engaged in agricultural pursuits. He served as member of the State senate 1905–1909.

Moss was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909 March 3, 1917). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Sixty-second Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress and for election in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress. He retired to his farm near Ashboro, Indiana, where he died. He was interred in Moss Cemetery, near his home.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Elias S. Holliday
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Indiana's 5th congressional district

1909-1917
Succeeded by
Everett Sanders
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