[5] In 1953, Moxley approved taking a $514,000 state loan for new school construction, with future commissioner Charles E. Miller chosen for site purchases.
[6] During the November 1954 election, Moxley's brother Howard County Police Chief E. Russell Moxley and Max A. Rappaport were charged with electioneering, requiring the Maryland State police to intercede, but all charges were later dropped in a Howard County Court.
The machine was intended to rapidly issue a ticket and receive payment on the spot "to relieve the charged with the hassle of driving to the police station to pay the fine".
He ran an unsuccessful bid as an independent, losing to Charles E. Miller, J. Hubert Black, and David W.
[11] He won the primary with 3031 votes on a slate with J. Thomas Nissel, losing the general to a sweep of Republican incumbents.
In July 1955 Moxley formed the Normandy Development company, and subdivided his own land in Howard County on Highland Road and Rogers Avenue to build the Normandy Heights housing development in Ellicott City, Maryland.
[20] He later sold a prime parcel to James Rouse as Robert Moxley assembled properties for the planned community development of Columbia, Maryland.
His county approved purchases of gasoline from Councilman Charles E. Miller's Ellicott City business caught press attention at the time.