J. Washington Moore (March 16, 1866 – January 2, 1965) was an American fraternity president, lawyer and politician.
[1] At Vanderbilt, he joined the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity and the Dialectic Society.
"[8] Moore was appointed as Assistant Attorney General of the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Tennessee in 1910.
[9] When a black physician was elected to the city council and a ballot box was stolen, Moore suggested he was "unfamiliar with the law and procedure regarding such a theft," even though this had happened before.
[12] In this capacity, he arrested William L. Brown, a marijuana dealer with connections in Columbus, Ohio and Chicago who sold the drug to black musicians; Moore called him "the king of Nashville reefer dealers.
[1] One of their daughters, Sarah Frances, who married Edgar E. Rand, the President of the International Shoe Company; the couple divorced in 1951.