July 2, 1917, at age 63, and was buried at Byfield Cemetery in Georgetown, Massachusetts. Awards and honors In 1904, Moody received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Tufts University and Amherst College. Legacy After Moody's death, some of his official papers were placed in the custody of Professor Felix Frankfurter, then of Harvard Law School. They are now in the collection of Frankfurter's papers in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. Moody's office furnishings and papers were donated to the Haverhill Historical Society and there is a Moody Room open to the public at the Buttonwoods Museum in Haverhill that features his personal collection. USS Moody (DD-277) was named for him. In 2018, television and film actor Jay Huguley portrayed Moody in Lizzie, a biographical thriller film about Lizzie Borden. See also List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States Notes References and further reading Gould, Lewis L. "Moody, William Henry"; American National Biography Online February 2000. Heffron, Paul T. "Theodore Roosevelt and the Appointment of Mr. Justice Moody." Vanderbilt Law Review 18 (1964): 545+ online. Watts, Jr., James F. "William Moody," in The Justices of the United States Supreme Court 1789–1969,'' ed. Leon Friedman and Fred L. Israel (1969), Sources and external links The Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum owns 12 Moody letters dated 1896–1908. |- |- |- 1853 births 1917 deaths 19th-century American politicians 20th-century American judges 20th-century American politicians Harvard University alumni Massachusetts lawyers Phillips Academy alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts Theodore Roosevelt administration cabinet members United States Attorneys General United States federal judges appointed by Theodore Roosevelt United States Secretaries of the Navy Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States United States federal judges admitted to the practice of law by reading law