Moses K. Armstrong

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(September 19, 1832 — January 11, 1906) Armstrong was an American politician and surveyor. Moses Armstrong was born in Erie County, Ohio, where he grew up and attended college. After graduating, Armstrong moved to the Territory of Minnesota where he was assigned to survey the United States lands. He moved to the Dakota Territory after Minnesota received statehood. There, he served as a member to the Territorial House of Representatives (1861-1863), the president of the Territorial Council (1866-1867), and clerk of the Territorial Supreme Court (1865). Armstrong was elected to the Forty-Second and Forty-Third Congresses as a Democrat. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/A000283]

Member of Dakota Territory Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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