Charles L. Moses
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Charles Leavell Moses was a U.S. Representative
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 from Georgia
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Born near Turin, Georgia
Turin, Georgia
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, Moses attended small country schools and ultimately graduated from Mercer University
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, Macon, Georgia
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, in 1876. He later engaged in teaching and agricultural pursuits.
For several years he served as principal of the Newnan Academy for Boys.
After 1886 he devoted his time exclusively to agricultural interests and was also involved in the Farmers' Alliance.

Moses was elected as a Democrat
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 to the Fifty-second
52nd United States Congress
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, Fifty-third
53rd United States Congress
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, and Fifty-fourth
54th United States Congress
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 Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1897).
He served as chairman of the Committee on Pensions (Fifty-third Congress).
He was unsuccessful in his candidacy for renomination in 1896 after which he resumed his agricultural pursuits in Turin, Georgia
Turin, Georgia
Turin is a town in Coweta County, Georgia, United States. The population was 165 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Turin is located at ....

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He served as delegate to several Democratic State and National conventions.
He served as a member of the Georgia State house of representatives from 1900-1904.
He retired and moved to Atlanta, Georgia
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, where he died October 10, 1910 and was ultimately interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.
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