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'''Ellen Bryan Moore''' (April 13, 1912 &ndash; February 20, 1999)<ref name=fagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25164086|title=Ellen Bryan Moore|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=September 7, 2009}}The Social Security Death Index mistakenly lists Moore's year of death as 2000. The tombstone affirms 1999.</ref> was a pioneer of women in [[Louisiana]] politics, having served in the formerly elected office of "Register of State Lands" from 1952to 1956 and 1960 to 1976. During [[World War II]], she was a captain in the Women's Army Corps.<ref name=fagrave/>​

'''Ellen Bryan Moore''' (April 13, 1912 &ndash; February 20, 1999)<ref name=fagrave>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25164086|title=Ellen Bryan Moore|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=September 7, 2009}}The Social Security Death Index mistakenly lists Moore's year of death as 2000. The tombstone affirms 1999.</ref> was a pioneer of women in [[Louisiana]] politics, having served in the formerly elected office of "Register of State Lands" from 1952to 1956 and 1960 to 1976. During [[World War II]], she was a captain in the Women's Army Corps.<ref name=fagrave/>​

 

==Background==​

==Background==​

A [[Baton Rouge]] native, Moore was the granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin Bryan, a former Baton Rouge [[mayor]], who served during the 1880s. Her father was the warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary until he was dismissed in a dispute with then [[Governor]] [[Huey Long|Huey Pierce  Long, Jr.]] Moore spent her early years growing up at the manager's residence when the penitentiary was in Baton Rouge, instead of the present site at [[rural]] Angola in West Feliciana Parish, near St. Francisville. She was frequently in contact with prisoners, who grew the food required to operate the penitentiary.<ref name=moore>{{cite web|url=

A [[Baton Rouge]] native, Moore was the granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin Bryan, a former Baton Rouge [[mayor]], who served during the 1880s. Her father was the warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary until he was dismissed in a dispute with then [[Governor]] [[Huey Long|Huey Pierce  Long, Jr.]] Moore spent her early years growing up at the manager's residence when the penitentiary was in Baton Rouge, instead of the present site at [[rural]] Angola in West Feliciana Parish, near St. Francisville. She was frequently in contact with prisoners, who grew the food required to operate the penitentiary.<ref name=moore>{{cite web|url=

https://web.archive.org/web/20100526015707/http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/williams/abstracts/military/MooreE.htm|title=Interview with Ellen Bryan Moore at T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at [[Louisiana State University]] in Baton Rouge, September–October 1995|publisher=lib.lsu.edu|accessdate=September 7, 2009}}</ref>​

https://web.archive.org/web/20100526015707/http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/williams/abstracts/military/MooreE.htm|title=Interview with Ellen Bryan Moore at T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at [[Louisiana State University]] in Baton Rouge, September–October 1995|publisher=lib.lsu.edu|accessdate=September 7, 2009}}</ref>​

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Moore attended St. Joseph's Academy and the [[Louisiana State University]] demonstration school in Baton Rouge before she enrolled at [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]] and then the University of Louisiana at [[Lafayette]]. In 1933, she graduated with teaching credentials from LSU, and in 1950, she obtained a master's degree in education and [[psychology]]. After the war, she taught at Wyandotte and later Bernard Terrace elementary schools in Baton Rouge.<ref name=moore/> Moore established the first soup kitchen in Baton Rouge to benefit families of her impoverished pupils.<ref name=moore/> She told an interviewer in 1995 that she had kept up with her former charges years after they had been in her classes.<ref name=moore/>​

Moore attended St. Joseph's Academy and the [[Louisiana State University]] demonstration school in Baton Rouge before she enrolled at [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]] and then the University of Louisiana at [[Lafayette]]. In 1933, she graduated with teaching credentials from LSU, and in 1950, she obtained a master's degree in education and [[psychology]]. After the war, she taught at Wyandotte and later Bernard Terrace elementary schools in Baton Rouge.<ref name=moore/> Moore established the first soup kitchen in Baton Rouge to benefit families of her impoverished pupils.<ref name=moore/> She told an interviewer in 1995 that she had kept up with her former charges years after they had been in her classes.<ref name=moore/>

 

==Women's Army Corps==​

==Women's Army Corps==​

Moore joined the WACs, headed during the war by [[Oveta Culp Hobby]] of [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], a former First Lady of [[Texas]] and the first secretary of the former [[United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare]] during the administration of [[U.S. President]] [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]. Moore became a recruiter for the military, having once enlisted three hundred women at one appeal.<ref name=moore/> She worked with pilots in the former [[Yugoslavia]]. She commanded a service unit in New Orleans and worked to change the WACs from an auxiliary unit to a military force within the [[United States Army]].<ref name=moore/>  

Moore joined the WACs, headed during the war by Oveta Culp Hobby of [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], a former First Lady of [[Texas]] and the first secretary of the former United States [[Department of Health, Education and Welfare]] during the administration of [[U.S. President]] [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]. Moore became a recruiter for the military, having once enlisted three hundred women at one appeal.<ref name=moore/> She worked with pilots in the former [[Yugoslavia]]. She commanded a service unit in New Orleans and worked to change the WACs from an auxiliary unit to a military force within the [[United States Army]].<ref name=moore/>  

While in the military, she met her second husband, D. Haywood Moore (1907-1986).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=September 7, 2009}}</ref> Moore was previously married and [[divorce]]d.  Her husband was supportive of her political career. The two maintained separate finances during their marriage. After teaching, Moore entered the [[real estate]] business, from which perch she announced her candidacy for Register of State Lands, an administrative, otherwise nonpolitical, office that was then elected.<ref name=moore/>​

While in the military, she met her second husband, D. Haywood Moore (1907-1986).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=September 7, 2009}}</ref> Moore was previously married and [[divorce]]d.  Her husband was supportive of her political career. The two maintained separate finances during their marriage. After teaching, Moore entered the [[real estate]] business, from which perch she announced her candidacy for Register of State Lands, an administrative, otherwise nonpolitical, office that was then elected.<ref name=moore/>​

 

==Political activities==​

==Political activities==

 

Moore was a committed [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] and active in the party organization. Though she was in the anti-[[Huey Long|Long]] faction of the party, she did not support [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidates over the years, as had some others in her faction, such as Governors [[Sam Houston Jones]] and  [[Robert F. Kennon]], Lieutenant Governor Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock, and state Senator Jackson Beauregard Davis of  [[Shreveport]].<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' September 17, 1964, p. 1.</ref>​

Moore was a committed [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] and active in the party organization. Though she was in the anti-[[Huey Long|Long]] faction of the party, she did not support [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidates over the years, as had some others in her faction, such as Governors [[Sam Houston Jones]] and  [[Robert F. Kennon]], Lieutenant Governor Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock, and state Senator Jackson Beauregard Davis of  [[Shreveport]].<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' September 17, 1964, p. 1.</ref>​

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