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Clement Clarke Moore
1779–1863
Best remembered for the poem later known as “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” he was also a New York scholar, teacher, and landowner whose life stretched far beyond a single holiday classic.
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Clement Clarke Moore was an American writer and scholar born in New York City in 1779. He is most closely associated with "A Visit from St. Nicholas", the poem that helped shape the modern popular image of Santa Claus and his reindeer.
Beyond that famous poem, Moore was deeply involved in academic and religious life. Sources describe him as a scholar of Hebrew and Oriental and Greek literature, and he also taught at the General Theological Seminary in New York. He was the son of Bishop Benjamin Moore and came from an old New York family.
Moore died in 1863. His reputation has remained tied to Christmas tradition, but his life also reflected the worlds of scholarship, theology, and early New York history.