Wyman Moore, courtesy Maine State Museum
Wyman Seavy B. Moor (1811-1869) a U.S. Senator from Maine was born in Waterville, November 11, 1811. He attended the town school, prepared for college at China Academy, and graduated from Waterville College.
Moor taught school for one year in St. Stephen’s, New Brunswick, and then returned to his native town to study law. Later he attended Dane Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was admitted to the bar in 1835, and began his practice in Waterville.
A member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1839, he served as Attorney General from 1844 to 1848.
After moving to Bangor in 1847, he was appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Fairfield. Moor served from January 5, 1848, to June 7, 1848, when a successor was elected. He resumed the practice of law in Bangor, then returned to Waterville in 1852 and continued his law practice there.
After being superintendent of construction of a railroad from Waterville to Bangor, he was appointed by President James Buchanan as consul general to the British North American Provinces (1857-1861).
Again he returned to Waterville in 1861 and resumed the practice of law. Moor purchased an estate near Lynchburg, Virginia in 1868 and engaged in the operation of an iron furnace there. He died in Lynchburg on March 10, 1869 with interment in Pine Grove Cemetery in Waterville.
Additional resources
Wyman Bradbury Seavy Congressional Biography: https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=M000889 (accessed January 1, 2021)