Tollef Edward Moen was of Norwegian descent, and the first recorded child born to white settlers of Logan Township, Lyon County, Iowa, on October 10, 1870.
During his tenure as a county supervisor, Moen served four years as board chairman.
He took office as a state senator on March 5, 1928, and was reelected later that year to a full four-year term in his own right.
Moen ran for reelection in 1932 as a Democratic candidate, lost to Garritt Roelofs, and duly stepped down on January 8, 1933.
[1] Moen retired to South Dakota, and died in a Beresford nursing home on September 26, 1950.