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Tom Van Horn Moorehead (April 12, 1898 – October 21, 1979) was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio from 1961 to 1963.

Biography

Moorehead was born in Zanesville, Ohio. He attended the public schools, Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and George Washington University at Washington, D.C. During the First World War, he served in United States Naval Aviation Corps. He was engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Zanesville, and served as a member of city council and mayor of Zanesville. He was a member of the Ohio Senate serving eight terms.

Congress

Moorehead was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress.

Death

He resided in Zanesville, where he died October 21, 1979. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery.

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Ohio's 15th congressional district

1961–1963
Succeeded by