Hunter Holmes Moss Jr. (May 26, 1874 – July 15, 1916) was a lawyer and Republican politician from West Virginia who served as a United States representative. Moss was born in Parkersburg in Wood County, West Virginia. He was a member of the 63rd and 64th United States congresses.
Moss attended the public schools and worked in a bank in early youth. He was admitted to the bar after graduating from the law department of West Virginia University at Morgantown in 1896. The same year, he opened his legal practice in Parkersburg.
He served as prosecuting attorney for Wood County from 1900 to 1904. In 1904, Moss became a judge serving on the Fourth circuit court of West Virginia until 1912. In that year, he was elected to Congress as a Republican. He served from March 4, 1913, until his death in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He is interred at Odd Fellows Cemetery in Parkersburg.
Moss was an uncle of the American journalist and historian Holmes Alexander, a former member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
See also
United States congressional delegations from West Virginia
List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)
Sources
Hunter H. Moss, Jr., late a representative from West Virginia, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1917
1874 births
1916 deaths
19th-century American lawyers
20th-century American judges
20th-century American lawyers
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County prosecuting attorneys in West Virginia
Politicians from Parkersburg, West Virginia
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from West Virginia West Virginia circuit court judges Lawyers from Parkersburg, West Virginia West Virginia University College of Law alumni