Edwin Warren Moïse was an American physician and Judge in the Confederate States of America.
Background
Edwin Warren Moïse was born on January 2, 1810 in Charleston, South Carolina. His father was Hyam Moïse (1785-1811) native of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) and his mother, Cecelia Francis (Woolf) Moïse (1789-1871). He grew up in Charleston, and attended Congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim with his family.
Career
He was trained as a physician at the Charleston Medical College. He worked as a physician in Woodville, Mississippi, an affluent town thanks to the cotton industry. In 1840, he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana to become a lawyer
He was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives and served as Speaker of the House.
He then served as United States Attorney. Under Governor Robert C. Wickliffe (1819–1895), who served as the 15th Governor of Louisiana from 1856 to 1860, he served as Attorney General of Louisiana.
During the American Civil War of 1861-1865, he served as the District Court Judge for Louisiana. He was a secessionist, supported slavery and subscribed to the ideas of John C. Calhoun (1782–1850).
Personal life
Cecilia Woodville Moïse (1836-1921).
Theodore Lopez Moïse (1839-1839). He died a few days after was born. Sallie Lopez Moïse (1839-1924).
Her mother died four days after her birth.
Louise Moïse (1854-1856). Marie Aline Moïse Conrad (1857-1906).
Harry Moïse (1861-1912). Theodore Sidney Moïse (1862-1915).
He worked as Superintendent of the Georgia Central Railway.
Warren Hubert Moïse (1864-1939). Death
He died on June 29, 1868 in Jefferson, Louisiana. He was buried in the Lafayette Cemetery in New Orleans.