Malcolm A. Moody

{{Infobox officeholder

|name= Malcolm A. Moody

|image name= Malcolm A. Moody.png

|state= Oregon

|district= 2nd

|party= Republican

|term= March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1903

|preceded= William R. Ellis

|succeeded= John N. Williamson

|birth_name=Malcolm Adelbert Moody

|birth_date= November 30, 1854

|birth_place= Brownsville, Oregon Territory

|death_date= {{death date and age|1925|3|19|1854|11|30}}

|death_place=Portland, Oregon

|spouse=

|resting_place = Odd Fellows Cemetery in The Dalles

}}

Malcolm Adelbert Moody (November 30, 1854 – March 19, 1925) was an American businessman and politician who served two terms as a Republican U.S. congressman from Oregon from 1899 to 1903.

Early life

Moody was born near Brownsville in the Oregon Territory in 1854, the eldest child of future Oregon governor Zenas Ferry Moody and his wife, Mary Stevenson Moody. The Moody family moved to Illinois the following year, and then back to Oregon in 1862, settling in The Dalles.{{cite web | title = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress| publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office | url = http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000882| accessdate = May 8, 2007}} Malcolm Moody attended the public schools and then the University of California, Berkeley. He joined his father's mercantile business and worked at The Dalles National Bank.

Political career

Moody was elected to The Dalles city council in 1885, and mayor in 1889, serving two terms. In 1899, he was elected as United States Representative for Oregon's 2nd congressional district. He was handily re-elected to a second term, defeating William Smith, but lost the nomination in 1902 to John N. Williamson due to internal party struggles.{{cite book|title=Fifty Years in Oregon: Experiences, Observations, and Commentaries Upon Men, Measures, and Customs in Pioneer Days and Later Times|url=https://archive.org/details/fiftyyearsinore00geergoog|last=Geer|first=T. T.|authorlink=T. T. Geer|publisher=The Neale Publishing Company|year=1912|pages=[https://archive.org/details/fiftyyearsinore00geergoog/page/n421 417]}} He resumed his mercantile business and did not return to public service.

Personal life

Moody never married. According to The Dalles lore, he loved two sisters, Anne and Bessie Lang, but he could not choose between them and his love was unrequited. At his death, he willed his house—the oldest home in The Dalles, now known as the Rorick House Museum—to the Lang sisters.{{cite web|url=http://www.wascochs.org/#rorick|publisher=Wasco Historical Society|title=Oldest Home in the Dalles|accessdate=May 8, 2007}}{{cite news|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/ORWASCO/2006-02/1139110348|work=The Dalles Chronicle|date=February 5, 2006|page=A9|title=Michelbach family left imprint on The Dalles history|accessdate=May 8, 2007}}{{cite news|title=The Dalles as rich in history as attractions |url=http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/oldnews/1997/0714.html |last=McManman |first=Don |work=Tri-City Herald |date=July 14, 1997 |accessdate=May 8, 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041215231334/http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/oldnews/1997/0714.html |archivedate=December 15, 2004 }}

= Death and burial =

He died in Portland in 1925 after a long illness{{cite news|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/ORWASCO/2006-02/1139110348|last=King|first=Elroy|title=Looking Back: A Glimpse Through the Chronicles Files

|work=The Dalles Chronicle|date=March 20, 2005|accessdate=May 8, 2007}} and is buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery in The Dalles.