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{{Short description|American politician (1851–1929)}}
{{redirect|Senator Clapp}}
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{{Infobox officeholder 
|name = Moses E. Clapp
|image = CLAPP, M.E. SENATOR LCCN2016857659 (cropped).jpg
|caption = Clapp, 1905–1929
|jr/sr and state = [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] <br> from [[Minnesota]]
|party = [[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Wisconsin, Madison]]
|term = January 28, 1901 – March 3, 1917
|preceded = [[Charles A. Towne]]
|succeeded = [[Frank B. Kellogg]]
|office2 = 8th [[Minnesota Attorney General]]
|term_start2 = 1887
|term_end2 = 1893
|governor2 = [[Andrew R. McGill]]<br>[[William R. Merriam]]
|preceded2 = [[William J. Hahn]]
|succeeded2 = [[Henry W. Childs]]
|birth_date = {{birth date|1851|5|21}}
|birth_place = [[Delphi, Indiana]], US
|death_date = {{death date and age|1929|3|6|1851|5|21}}
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|spouse =
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'''Moses Edwin Clapp''' (May 21, 1851{{spaced ndash}}March 6, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician.

==Biography==
Born in [[Delphi, Indiana]], Clapp moved with his parents to [[Hudson, Wisconsin]]. He went to [[University of Wisconsin Law School]] and practiced law in Hudson, Wisconsin. He was district attorney for [[St. Croix County, Wisconsin]]. He then moved to [[Fergus Falls, Minnesota]], where he practiced law.

He served as the [[Minnesota Attorney General]] from 1887 until 1893. In 1900, he entered the special election for [[Minnesota]]'s seat in the [[United States Senate]] that was made vacant by the death of [[Cushman Davis]]. He won that election, and was later reelected in 1904 and 1910 for two additional terms.

He served in the Senate from January 28, 1901, to March 3, 1917, a term that spanned the [[57th United States Congress|57th]], [[58th United States Congress|58th]], [[59th United States Congress|59th]], [[60th United States Congress|60th]], [[61st United States Congress|61st]], [[62nd United States Congress|62nd]], [[63rd United States Congress|63rd]], and [[64th United States Congress|64th Congresses]].<ref name="cd">{{cite web |title=S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-04562_00_00-001-0001-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=2 July 2023 |pages=55–56 |date=9 November 1903}}</ref> He was not renominated by the party in 1916. Clapp, along with [[Hiram F. Stevens]], [[Ambrose Tighe]], [[Thomas D. O'Brien]], and [[Clarence Halbert]], was also a co-founder of [[William Mitchell College of Law]].

In 1906, he presented ''A Brief History of the Delaware Indians'' by [[Richard C. Adams]] for publication to the 59th Congress.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Adams |first=Richard Calmit |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rsZOVftPTAEC&q=Delaware+Indians:+A+Brief+History |title=A Brief History of the Delaware Indians |date=1906 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
{{Commons}}
* {{CongBio|C000414}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Moses E. Clapp}}

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[[Category:1851 births]]
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[[Category:People from Delphi, Indiana]]
[[Category:Republican Party United States senators from Minnesota]]
[[Category:Minnesota attorneys general]]
[[Category:Minnesota lawyers]]
[[Category:Wisconsin lawyers]]
[[Category:People from Fergus Falls, Minnesota]]
[[Category:People from Hudson, Wisconsin]]
[[Category:19th-century American lawyers]]
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[[Category:20th-century United States senators]]


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