A. Harry Moore Quotes


I bought two baseballs and two bats for each playground in the city, and they say I ought to be sent to jail for giving the kids a ball to play with. [He won his election.]


Context

Early in his career Moore was under investigation in Jersey City for having expropriated municipal funds:


Citations

A. Harry Moore, 1879-1952, Governor of New Jersey (Democrat), Campaign speech, 1921

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A. Harry Moore
  • Born: July 3, 1877
  • Died: November 18, 1952
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Arthur Harry Moore was a Democrat who was the 39th Governor of New Jersey, serving three terms between 1926 and 1941. He was the longest-serving New Jersey Governor in the 20th century and the only New Jersey Governor elected to serve three separate non-consecutive terms. Moore represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from January 3, 1935, to January 17, 1938, when he stepped down to begin his third term as Governor of New Jersey.