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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Andre Brown Moore
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=[[New Orleans]] Public Utilities Commissioner
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| term_start=1950
| term_end=1957
| preceded=
| succeeded=Henry B. Curtis in District A
| birth_date=August 23, 1911
| death_date=1987
| birth_place=New Orleans, [[Louisiana]], USA
| death_place=
| resting_place=
| alma_mater=Isidore Newman School<br>
[[Tulane University]] Law School
| occupation=[[Attorney]]
| residence=New Orleans, Louisiana
| spouse=
| children=
| parents=
| branch=[[United States Army]]<br>
[[Judge Advocate General's Corps]]
| battles=[[World War II]]
|rank=[[Lieutenant Colonel]]}}
'''Andre Brown Moore''', known as '''A. Brown Moore''' or '''Brownie Moore''' (August 23, 1911 – 1987),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=ms_f-2_s&gsfn=Andre+Brown&gsln=Moore&msbdy=1911&msbpn__ftp=New+Orleans%2C+Orleans%2C+Louisiana%2C+USA&msbpn=34322&msbpn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3246%7C21%7C0%7C2249%7C34322%7C0%7C&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&uidh=000&cp=0|title=Andre Brown Moore|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=February 17, 2015}}</ref> was an [[attorney]], [[business]]man, and a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] from his native [[New Orleans]],
[[Louisiana]].
==Biography==
Moore attended the independent nondenominational day school, the Isidore Newman School, and in 1934 graduated from [[Tulane University]] in New Orleans, presumably with legal credentials in hand at the age of twenty-three. He was a partner in the firm of McCloskey, Moore, and Dennery from 1934 to 1950, when he joined the New Orleans former city commission. From 1941 to 1946, with two years overseas, he was in active duty as a [[Judge Advocate General's Corps|judge advocate]] on the staff of [[United States Army]] [[General]] [[George S. Patton, Jr.]] Moore received the [[Bronze Star]] and had advanced to the rank of [[lieutenant colonel]] at the time of his discharge from the Army.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://specialcollections.tulane.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=573&q=Slavery+documents+collection.|title=Andre Brown Moore papers|publisher=[[Tulane University]]|accessdate=February 17, 2015}}</ref>
After 1957, he was a partner in Robert Oil Company and the president of Pan Air Corporation, a company involved with aviation sales and service. He was also the chief executive officer of the Tidelands Life Insurance Company. He was senior warden at Trinity Church, the largest [[Episcopalian]] congregation in New Orleans, located at 1329 Jackson Avenue.<ref name=bio/>
In 1950, Moore was elected as the last public utilities commissioner in New Orleans under the former city commission government, which was replaced in 1954 through a [[home rule]] [[charter]] with single-member districts under the traditional mayor-council arrangement. He then represented District A from 1954 to 1957, when he resigned for stated business reasons.<ref name=bio/> On the council his colleagues included later Lieutenant Governor [[Jimmy Fitzmorris]] and future New Orlean [[Mayor]] Victor H. Schiro (1904-1992). Moore was subsequently succeeded on the council by his fellow Democrat, Henry B. Curtis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nutrias.org/facts/council.htm|title=New Orleans City Council members since 1954|publisher=nutrias.org|accessdate=February 17, 2015}}</ref>
In 1956, Moore was an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor on the intraparty [[governor|gubernatorial]] ticket headed by businessman [[Fred Preaus]] of Farmerville in Union Parish in North Louisiana], the former state highway director supported by outgoing [[Governor]] [[Robert F. Kennon]]. [[Lether Frazar]] of [[Lake Charles]], instead won the lieutenant governor's race. Frazar was the choice of [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]], who staged a comeback for a third term as governor. Besides Long and Preaus, the other major gubernatorial candidate in 1956 was Brown's New Orleans municipal colleague, Mayor [[Chep Morrison|deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr.]], who finished second to Long but ahead of Brown's ticket-mate, Fred Preaus.<ref>''Minden Herald and Webster Review,'' December 8, 1955, p. 9.</ref>
Moore died in 1987, the same year as Preaus. Moore's place of interment is unknown. His papers are deposited in special collections at the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library on the Tulane campus.<ref name=bio/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, A. Brown}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Episcopalians]]
[[Category: World War II]]
[[Category:United States Army
[[Category:Recipients of the Bronze Star Medal]]
| name=Andre Brown Moore
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=[[New Orleans]] Public Utilities Commissioner
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
| term_start=1950
| term_end=1957
| preceded=
| succeeded=Henry B. Curtis in District A
| birth_date=August 23, 1911
| death_date=1987
| birth_place=New Orleans, [[Louisiana]], USA
| death_place=
| resting_place=
| alma_mater=Isidore Newman School<br>
[[Tulane University]] Law School
| occupation=[[Attorney]]
| residence=New Orleans, Louisiana
| spouse=
| children=
| parents=
| branch=[[United States Army]]<br>
[[Judge Advocate General's Corps]]
| battles=[[World War II]]
|rank=[[Lieutenant Colonel]]}}
'''Andre Brown Moore''', known as '''A. Brown Moore''' or '''Brownie Moore''' (August 23, 1911 – 1987),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=ms_f-2_s&gsfn=Andre+Brown&gsln=Moore&msbdy=1911&msbpn__ftp=New+Orleans%2C+Orleans%2C+Louisiana%2C+USA&msbpn=34322&msbpn_PInfo=8-%7C0%7C1652393%7C0%7C2%7C3246%7C21%7C0%7C2249%7C34322%7C0%7C&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&uidh=000&cp=0|title=Andre Brown Moore|publisher=search.ancestry.com|accessdate=February 17, 2015}}</ref> was an [[attorney]], [[business]]man, and a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] from his native [[New Orleans]],
[[Louisiana]].
==Biography==
Moore attended the independent nondenominational day school, the Isidore Newman School, and in 1934 graduated from [[Tulane University]] in New Orleans, presumably with legal credentials in hand at the age of twenty-three. He was a partner in the firm of McCloskey, Moore, and Dennery from 1934 to 1950, when he joined the New Orleans former city commission. From 1941 to 1946, with two years overseas, he was in active duty as a [[Judge Advocate General's Corps|judge advocate]] on the staff of [[United States Army]] [[General]] [[George S. Patton, Jr.]] Moore received the [[Bronze Star]] and had advanced to the rank of [[lieutenant colonel]] at the time of his discharge from the Army.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://specialcollections.tulane.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=573&q=Slavery+documents+collection.|title=Andre Brown Moore papers|publisher=[[Tulane University]]|accessdate=February 17, 2015}}</ref>
After 1957, he was a partner in Robert Oil Company and the president of Pan Air Corporation, a company involved with aviation sales and service. He was also the chief executive officer of the Tidelands Life Insurance Company. He was senior warden at Trinity Church, the largest [[Episcopalian]] congregation in New Orleans, located at 1329 Jackson Avenue.<ref name=bio/>
In 1950, Moore was elected as the last public utilities commissioner in New Orleans under the former city commission government, which was replaced in 1954 through a [[home rule]] [[charter]] with single-member districts under the traditional mayor-council arrangement. He then represented District A from 1954 to 1957, when he resigned for stated business reasons.<ref name=bio/> On the council his colleagues included later Lieutenant Governor [[Jimmy Fitzmorris]] and future New Orlean [[Mayor]] Victor H. Schiro (1904-1992). Moore was subsequently succeeded on the council by his fellow Democrat, Henry B. Curtis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nutrias.org/facts/council.htm|title=New Orleans City Council members since 1954|publisher=nutrias.org|accessdate=February 17, 2015}}</ref>
In 1956, Moore was an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor on the intraparty [[governor|gubernatorial]] ticket headed by businessman [[Fred Preaus]] of Farmerville in Union Parish in North Louisiana], the former state highway director supported by outgoing [[Governor]] [[Robert F. Kennon]]. [[Lether Frazar]] of [[Lake Charles]], instead won the lieutenant governor's race. Frazar was the choice of [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]], who staged a comeback for a third term as governor. Besides Long and Preaus, the other major gubernatorial candidate in 1956 was Brown's New Orleans municipal colleague, Mayor [[Chep Morrison|deLesseps Story "Chep" Morrison, Sr.]], who finished second to Long but ahead of Brown's ticket-mate, Fred Preaus.<ref>''Minden Herald and Webster Review,'' December 8, 1955, p. 9.</ref>
Moore died in 1987, the same year as Preaus. Moore's place of interment is unknown. His papers are deposited in special collections at the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library on the Tulane campus.<ref name=bio/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, A. Brown}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Episcopalians]]
[[Category: World War II]]
[[Category:United States Army
[[Category:Recipients of the Bronze Star Medal]]