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.

Tom Van Horn Moorehead

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.

Tom Van Horn Moorehead

Death

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

Tom Van Horn Moorehead

Sources

The Political Graveyard

1898 births

1979 deaths

Republican Party Ohio state senators

Politicians from Zanesville, Ohio

United States Navy personnel of World War I

Mayors of places in Ohio

Ohio Wesleyan University alumni

George Washington University alumni

20th-century American politicians

Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio