Allied with the Byrd Organization, Moses represented a district centered around Appomattox County part time for 28 years.
After the Civil War, Charles Moses (the grandfather for whom this boy was named) had married Molly Woodson, daughter of the local Baptist minister and nicknamed the "Doughgirl" for feeding many Confederate and Union soldiers the day CSA General Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
The Moses family also included a daughter, Nettie, who married a Canadian (Frank Dresser), and whose children moved to Maryland and North Carolina.
Moses considered himself a champion of the rural citizen, and served on the Virginia Civil War Centennial Committee, as chair of the Darkfired Tobacco Growers Association and for 32 years also sat on the board of the Farmers National Bank.
In 1955 Powhatan, Amherst, Nelson and Amelia counties were added, and continued as part of the expanded district (to offset population growth in northern Virginia) until his final re-election in 1963.