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 4, 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.
Famous quotes containing the word moss:
“They are very proper forest houses, the stems of the trees collected together and piled up around a man to keep out wind and rain,—made of living green logs, hanging with moss and lichen, and with the curls and fringes of the yellow birch bark, and dripping with resin, fresh and moist, and redolent of swampy odors, with that sort of vigor and perennialness even about them that toadstools suggest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)