George H. Moore

George H. Moore (November 4, 1871 – September 16, 1958), an attorney and a judge who was active in civic affairs of the Los Angeles Harbor region, was district attorney of San Benito County and a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1943 to 1951.

[3] Moore was a Judge of Lower Court from 1917 to 1918 and district attorney of San Benito County from 1917 to 1927.

He moved to Wilmington in 1928 and was appointed in 1939 by fellow Democrat and Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron to the Harbor Commission, where he served until he was elected to the City Council in 1943.

[1] Moore ran against the incumbent, Wilder W. Hartley, in 1943 in Los Angeles City Council District 15 and ousted him in the primary election.

[6] He told the council: We are in a war [in Korea] and when this ordinance was passed some months ago representatives of the military, including the Atomic Energy Commission, appeared before this body and favored animal experimentation.