Marshall F. Moore

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Marshall Frank Moore

|image = MFMoore.jpg

|caption =

|order = 7th Governor of Washington Territory

|term_start = 26 August 1867

|term_end = 5 April 1869

|predecessor = George Edward Cole

|successor = Alvan Flanders

|birth_date = {{birth date|1829|2|12}}

|birth_place = Binghamton, New York

|death_date = {{death date and age|1870|02|26|1829|02|12}}

|death_place = Olympia, Washington

|spouse = Van Trump

|children = 3

|profession =

|party = Republican

|footnotes =

|allegiance = {{ubl|United States|Union}}

|branch = {{ubl|United States Army|Union Army}}

|serviceyears = 1861–1864

|rank = 35px Colonel
35px Bvt. Major General

|commands = 69th Ohio Infantry Regiment

|unit =

|battles = American Civil War

}}

Marshall Frank Moore (12 February 1829{{thinsp|{{ndash}}}}26 February 1870) 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 12 February 1829. He attended Yale University. He married Francis Fanny Van Trump on 7 June 1859. The couple had three children; Mary Louise, Frances, and Thomas.{{Cite web |title=Marshall Frank Moore: Territorial Governor |url=https://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/legacymakers/detail.aspx?personid=704 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220330083822/https://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/legacymakers/detail.aspx?personid=704 |archive-date=2022-03-30 |access-date=2022-03-30 |website=Government of Washington |language=en}}

Career

Moore served as a state judge in the Common Pleas Court and as a prosecuting attorney in Sioux City, Iowa.{{Cite book |last=Meany |first=Edmond Stephen |url=https://archive.org/details/governorsofwashi00mean/page/34/mode/2up |title=Governors of Washington, territorial and state |date=1915 |publisher=University of Washington Press |location=Seattle |pages=34–36 |language=en |lccn=16015657 |oclc=13072753 |ol=6588833M |author-link=Edmond S. Meany |access-date=2022-03-30 |via=Internet Archive}}

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 13 March 1865.

Moore was Governor of Washington Territory from 1867 to 1869. He was accompanied to Olympia, Washington, by his brother-in-law, Philemon Beecher Van Trump, who served as Moore's private secretary. Moore was a delegate to the United States Congress from Washington Territory in 1868.{{Cite web |title=Marshall F. Moore |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/moore6.html |access-date=2012-10-10 |website=The Political Graveyard}} He also was an attorney in New Orleans.

Death

Moore died in Olympia, Thurston County, Washington, on 26 February 1870. He is interred at Masonic Memorial Park, Tumwater, Thurston County, Washington.