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WILLIAM H.
MOODY was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, on December
23, 1853, and raised in nearby Danvers. He was graduated
from Harvard College in 1876 and enrolled in Harvard Law
School but left the Law School after one year to continue
his legal studies with a Boston law firm. In 1878, he
was admitted to the bar and established a law practice
in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Ten years later, Moody was
elected City Solicitor for Haverhill, and in 1890 he became
District Attorney for the Eastern District of Massachusetts.
In 1895, Moody won a special election to the United States
House of Representatives and was re-elected three times.
Moody resigned his House seat in 1902 to accept an appointment
as Secretary of the Navy under President Theodore Roosevelt.
From 1904 to 1906, he served as Attorney General of the
United States. President Roosevelt nominated Moody to
the Supreme Court of the United States on December 3,
1906. The Senate confirmed the appointment on December
12, 1906. Moody retired from the Supreme Court on November
20, 1910, after nearly four years of service. He died
on July 2, 1917, at the age of sixty-three. |
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