Moffatt, Seth C
lawyer, legislator, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 10, 1841, in Battle Creek, Mich. He was prosecuting attorney for Leelaun county, Mich., for six years; and was deputy collector of customs at Northport for six years. He was a state senator in 1871 and 1872; was a member of the state constitutional commission in 1873; and was register of the United States land office at Traverse City, Mich., from 1874 to 1878. He was prosecuting attorney for Grand Traverse county, Mich., in 1878; and was a representative in, and speaker of, the lower house of the Michigan legislature in 1881 and 1882. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-ninth congress; and was reelected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.