William Armistead Moore

William Armistead Moore (July 20, 1831 – December 20, 1884) was a lawyer, judge, confederate officer, served in the North Carolina House of Representatives and as speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives for two weeks in 1870.

Biography

Moore was born July 20, 1831, to Susan Jordan Armistead and Augustus Moore in Edenton, North Carolina.

Moore held several positions during the Reconstruction era and he was elected to fill an unfinished term in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1869 and was subsequently elected to serve the following term from 1869 to 1870.

In 1871 he was appointed as judge of the Second Judicial District by governor Tod Robinson Caldwell, replacing E. W. Jones who had resigned April 1, 1871. He was made Honorary Commissioner to the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris by president Rutherford B. Hayes.

He died December 20, 1884, from paralysis, and he is buried in St. Paul's Church, Edenton. He had never married and had no children.