Thomas Overton Moore

Birth Date

1804-04-10

Death Date

1876-06-25

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisiana governor and sugar planter. Sampson County, North Carolina, native. Son of John Moore and Jean Overton Moore. Married to Bethiah Jane Leonard Moore on November 30, 1830. Father of Emma J. Moore. Moved to Rapides Parish, Louisiana, in 1829. Manager of Walter H. Overton's sugar plantation. Owned and operated a sugar plantation in Rapides Parish. Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana in 1848. Member of the Senate of the State of Louisiana in 1856. Member of the Democratic Party. Employed Green B. McElroy as a manager in Rapides Parish in 1860. Employed John F. Davis and Falkwood Campbell as overseers in Rapides Parish in 1860. Owned 226 enslaved persons in Rapides Parish in 1860. Fourteenth governor of the State of Louisiana from January 23, 1860, to 1864. Forced to relocate the Louisiana capital to Opelousas, Louisiana, in 1862. Under threat of arrest, fled to Havana, Cuba.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, p. 52B-53A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, p. 201.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, p. 28-31.
Find A Grave, "Thomas Overton Moore (1804-1876)," Memorial #8385593, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8385593/thomas-overton-moore (accessed March 19, 2018).
John David Winters, The Civil War in Louisiana (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991), 4.
Nancy Capace, Encyclopedia of Louisiana (Somerset Publishers, 1999), 131-33.

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