death_date allegiance term birth_date term_end death_place battles term_start rank name occupation resting_place predecessor birth_place party office state district successor article_title
july 11 , 1822 united states of america 1794 -- 1799 1759 march 3 , 1803 3 , 1817 march 3 , 1813 march moore 's station , south carolina american revolutionary war war of 1812 march 4 , 1801 4 , 1815 march 4 , 1803 march brigadier general thomas moore planter moore 's station , south carolina samuel farrow '' district established '' abraham nott spartanburg district , south carolina democratic-republican member of the south carolina house of representatives south carolina south carolina south carolina 8th 7th 6th wilson nesbitt elias earle levi casey thomas moore -lrb- south carolina congressman -rrb-

thomas moore -lrb- south carolina congressman -rrb-

thomas moore -lrb- 1759 -- july 11 , 1822 -rrb- was a member of the united states house of representatives and planter from south carolina .
born in spartanburg district , south carolina , moore served during the revolutionary war , taking part in the battle of cowpens at the age of 16 .
he served in the south carolina house of representatives to 1794 to 1799 .
in 1800 , he was elected a democratic-republican to the seventh congress , serving from 1801 to 1813 .
he served as a brigadier general in the war of 1812 and afterwards engaged in planting .
moore was one of the founders of the first high schools in spartanburg district .
in 1814 , he was elected to the fourteenth congress , serving again from 1815 to 1817 .
afterwards , he resumed engaging in agricultural pursuits .
he died in moores station , south carolina , in 1822 and was interred in moore 's burying ground .
according to one source , he was the brother of the legendary heroine of cowpens , kate barry .
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