J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton) Moore

Born in Woodbury, New Jersey, in 1864, Joseph Hampton Moore built an unusually varied public career. Reliable biographical sources describe him as a journalist before moving into politics, and he went on to serve as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives as well as mayor of Philadelphia.

As a writer, he appears in library and archival records under J. Hampton Moore or Joseph Hampton Moore, 1864–1950. His surviving works include addresses, political speeches, and nonfiction pieces on public affairs, with titles connected to subjects such as American history, the Panama Canal, civic finance, and Robert Peary's North Pole claim.

That mix of politics, journalism, and public speaking shapes his books: they read less like private literary works and more like windows into the arguments, ideals, and ambitions of his era. He died in 1950, and many of his writings now circulate through public-domain and archival collections.