Moore was from Central City, Kentucky, before moving to Winslow, Arizona in approximately 1900.
[3] Moore was an engineer on the Santa Fe Railroad for 39 years, working the Winslow, Arizona to Gallup, New Mexico run, retiring in April 1940.
[4][5] In 1922, Moore ran for the Arizona State Senate seat from Navajo County.
He was unopposed in the Democrat primary, and easily defeated his Republican opponent, A. R. Kliendienst, in the general election.
[12] He spent the last year of his life at the Santa Fe Railroad Hospital in Los Angeles, California where he died on June 22, 1942.