Moses F. Odell

Moses Fowler Odell was a 19th-century American politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.

Biography

Born in Tarrytown, New York, Odell completed preparatory studies.
He was appointed entry clerk in the New York customhouse in 1845 and became public appraiser.

Congress

Odell was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses.
He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury.
He served on the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War during the American Civil War.

Later career and death

He was appointed Navy agent at the city of New York in 1865 and served until his death in Brooklyn, New York, June 13, 1866.
He was interred in Greenwood Cemetery.