{"id":3039,"date":"2020-10-30T17:41:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T22:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/?page_id=3039"},"modified":"2026-02-15T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:00:36","slug":"l-c-moore","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/l-c-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"L. C. Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>L. C. Moore (Bolivar County)<\/h2>\n<p><strong>State House:\u00a0<\/strong>1890<\/p>\n<p>According to the 1890 House Journal, he was a minister. Lived in Australia, which was a small town on the Mississippi River. Served on the committees for county affairs and investigating state offices. In an 1890 speech before the House, he stated that he was &#8220;born in Mississippi but raised in a Northern State.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Note: I have done my best to make sure that the newspaper clippings below refer to the L. C. Moore of Bolivar and not the Lemuel C. Moore of Issaquena, who was living in Washington, DC at the time L. C. Moore represented Bolivar.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6494\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/l-c-moore\/bolivar0000\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6494\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6494\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bolivar0000-150x150.png\" alt=\"Bolivar Co Democrat, August 22, 1889\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bolivar0000-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bolivar0000-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bolivar Co Democrat, August 22, 1889<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3041\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/l-c-moore\/capture-78\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3041 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Capture-70-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Capture-70-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Capture-70-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clarion Ledger, January 17, 1890<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3043\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/l-c-moore\/capture-79\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3043 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Capture-71-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Capture-71-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Capture-71-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Capture-71-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Capture-71.png 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clarion Ledger, February 6, 1890<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5743\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/l-c-moore\/the_clarion_ledger_1890_02_27_page_5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5743\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5743\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Clarion_Ledger_1890_02_27_Page_5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Clarion-Ledger, February 27, 1890\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Clarion_Ledger_1890_02_27_Page_5-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Clarion_Ledger_1890_02_27_Page_5-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Clarion-Ledger, February 27, 1890<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5735\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/l-c-moore\/the_weekly_democrat_times_1890_04_26_5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5735\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Weekly_Democrat_Times_1890_04_26_5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Weekly Democrat-Times, April 26, 1890\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Weekly_Democrat_Times_1890_04_26_5-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Weekly_Democrat_Times_1890_04_26_5-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weekly Democrat-Times, April 26, 1890<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L. C. Moore (Bolivar County) State House:\u00a01890 According to the 1890 House Journal, he was a minister. Lived in Australia, which was a small town on the Mississippi River. Served on the committees for county affairs and investigating state offices. In an 1890 speech before the House, he stated that he was &#8220;born in Mississippi &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/l-c-moore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;L. C. Moore&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3039","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6495,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3039\/revisions\/6495"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}