Gideon Curtis Moody Biography This biography extracted from "Biographical Directory of the American Congress 1774-1961", published by the U. S. Government Printing Office. Page 1347. Information transcribed by Joy Fisher. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm MOODY, Gideon Curtis, a Senator from South Dakota; born in Cortland, Cortland County, N. Y., October 16, 1832; attended the common schools and pursued an academic course; studied law in Syracuse, N. Y.; moved to Indiana in 1852 and was admitted to the bar in 1853; appointed prosecuting attorney for Floyd County in 1854; member of the House of Representatives of Indiana in 1861; during the Cirri War entered the Union Army as captain in the Ninth Regiment., Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in April 1861 and served as captain, lieutenant colonel, and colonel; appointed in August 1861 captain in the Nineteenth Regiment, United States Infantry, and served until his resignation in March 1864; moved to the Territory of Dakota in May 1864; member of the house of representatives of the Territory of Dakota 1867-1868, 1868-1869, and 1874-1875, and served as speaker in 1868-1869 and 1874-1875; delegate to the Republican National Conventions at Chicago in 1868 and 1888; appointed associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of Dakota in September 1878 and served until April 1, 1883; member of the constitutional conventions of South Dakota in 1883 and 1885; upon the admission of South Dakota as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from November 2, 1889, to March 3, 1891; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; died in Los Angeles, Calif., March 17, 1904; interment in Rosedale Cemetery.