Laban T. Moore
U.S. Congressperson
1829 – 1892
Who was Laban T. Moore?
Laban Theodore Moore was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Born in Wayne County, Virginia, near Louisa, Kentucky, Moore attended Marshall Academy in Virginia and was graduated from Marietta College in Ohio. He attended Transylvania Law College at Lexington. He was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Louisa, Kentucky. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election 1857 to the State house of representatives.
Moore was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-sixth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1860. During the Civil War raised and enlisted the 14th Kentucky Infantry, of which he was elected colonel November 19, 1861, and resigned January 1, 1862. He moved to Catlettsburg, where he resumed the practice of law. He became a Democrat after the war. He served as member of the State senate in 1881. He served as member of the State constitutional convention in 1890 and 1891. He died in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, November 9, 1892. He was interred in Ashland Cemetery, Ashland, Kentucky.
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