James William Moore

Birth Date

1818-02-12

Death Date

1877-09-17

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Montgomery County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and politician. Montgomery County, Kentucky, native. Member of the Whig Party and Democratic Party. Circuit court judge of the 10th Kentucky Judicial District from 1851 to 1858. Member of the Council of Ten in the provisional government of Kentucky. Member of the Committee on Military Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary for the provisional government of Kentucky. Represented the Tenth Congressional District in the House of Representatives of the First and Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865.

Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 179.
Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353.
LeRoy P. Graf, et al., eds., The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1865,--January 1866, vol. 9 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1967), 185.
“Death of Judge James W. Moore,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), September 20, 1877.
Find A Grave, "James William Moore (1818-1877)," Memorial #6868706, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6868706 (accessed January 19, 2017).
KYR-0004-033-0001.

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