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Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney)

b. 1829-01-13 d. 1892-11-09

Kentucky attorney, politician, and soldier. Cabell County, Virginia, native. Son of Frederick William Moore. Married to Sarah A. Everett Moore on January 15, 1850. Father of Felicia E. Moore, Mary F. Moore, S. G. Moore, Minnie H. Moore, and Druzilla Moore. Attended Marshall Academy in Virginia. Graduate of Marietta College in Washington County, Ohio. Studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Admitted to the bar in 1849. Member of the Whig Party and Democratic Party. Attorney in Lawrence County in 1850. Member of the United States House of Representative from the Ninth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1859 to 1861. Member of the Opposition Party. Attorney in Lawrence County in 1860. Served in the 14th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as a colonel from November 1861 to January 1862.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 75B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Louisa, p. 186.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 333B.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, Upper Catlettsburg Precinct 6, p. 213A.

E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and

Representative Men in Commerce, Industry, and Modern Activities, Vol. 3 (Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), p. 1562-1564.

“Moore, Laban Theodore,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000907.

Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 350.

“Col. Laban T. Moore Dead,” Mt. Sterling Advocate (Mount Sterling, Ky.), November 15, 1892.

“Laban Theodore Moore (1829-1892),” Find A Grave, Memorial 7773434, accessed December 20, 2016, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7773434.

Citation

Moore, Laban Thomas. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196813 (November 12, 2026).

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