{{short description|American politician and 5th Governor of Alabama}} {{more citations needed|date=March 2013}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Gabriel Moore | image = Gabrielmoore.jpg | caption = | jr/sr1 = United States | state1 = Alabama | term_start1 = March 4, 1831 | term_end1 = March 3, 1837 | predecessor1 = John McKinley | successor1 = John McKinley | order2 = 5th | office2 = Governor of Alabama | term_start2 = November 25, 1829 | term_end2 = March 3, 1831 | lieutenant2 = | predecessor2 = John Murphy | successor2 = Samuel B. Moore | office3 = Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama | term_start3 = March 4, 1821 | term_end3 = March 4, 1829 | preceded3 = John Crowell (AL)<br/>''District established'' (1st) | succeeded3 = ''District abolished'' (AL)<br/>Clement Clay (1st) | constituency3 = {{ushr|AL|AL|At-large district}} (1821-23)<br/>{{ushr|AL|1|1st district}} (1823-29) | office5 = Member of the Alabama Senate | term5 = 1819–1820 | birth_date = 1785 | birth_place = Stokes County, North Carolina | death_date = {{death date and age|1844|8|6|1785}} | death_place = near Caddo Lake, Texas | resting_place = Swanson Cemetery, Harrison County, Texas | party = Democratic-Republican, Jacksonian, National Republican | profession = | spouse = Mary Parham Caller | footnotes = | parents = {{ubl|Col. Matthew Moore (1738–1801)|Letitia Dalton (1742–1838)}} }} '''Gabriel Moore''' (1785 – August 6, 1844) was a Democratic-Republican, later Jacksonian and National Republican politician and the fifth governor of Alabama (1829–1831).<ref>{{cite web|title=Alabama : Past Governors Bios|url=https://classic.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_alabama.default.html?begincf757b7b-9ab7-47cc-90d3-12757d603123=50&endcf757b7b-9ab7-47cc-90d3-12757d603123=59&pagesizecf757b7b-9ab7-47cc-90d3-12757d603123=10&|website=National Governors Association|access-date=June 12, 2019}}{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Life and politics== Moore was born in Stokes County, North Carolina, of English descent and some French descent.<ref>Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 4, L–O. By William S. (ed.) Powell, p. 296.</ref> He moved to Huntsville, Alabama, in 1810. Moore served in the territorial legislatures and was elected to the United States Congress in 1821. He was re-elected to the United States Congress in 1827.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.archives.alabama.gov/govs_list/g_mooreg.html | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080517110744/http://www.archives.alabama.gov/govs_list/g_mooreg.html | url-status= dead | archive-date= May 17, 2008 |title= Alabama Governors: Gabriel More |publisher= Alabama Department of Archives and History |access-date=June 27, 2012}}</ref>

Moore was the second Representative of the state of Alabama and the first Representative of its First Congressional District.

He served one term as representative of the at-large district of Alabama (1821–1823). Moore was one of four candidates in the running. Moore won with 67.57% of the vote. He served as Alabama's 1st district representative (1823–1829). In the 1823 election, he was the only candidate and won all 3,304 votes. In the 1825 election, he was one of two candidates, the other being Clement Comer Clay. Moore won with 71.12% of the vote.

He was elected Governor of Alabama unopposed in 1829, standing as a Jacksonian.<ref>{{cite web |title=Moore, Gabriel |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=75326 |website=OurCampaigns |access-date=June 14, 2020}}</ref> In 1831, two years into his four-year governorship, Moore resigned to seek a Class 3 spot in the Senate. In response to his resignation, Moore was replaced as Governor by Alabama Senate President Samuel B. Moore (no relation).

Moore's Senate bid was successful, and he served for six years as Class 3 Senator alongside William R. King before losing out to John McKinley in 1837, who had preceded Moore in 1831. During his tenure in the Senate, Moore also served as chairman of the House Committee on Revolutionary Claims.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} In 1834, he was one of only two Anti-Jacksonian senators to vote against the censure of President Andrew Jackson.<ref>{{cite web |title=Voteview {{!}} Plot Vote: 23rd Congress > Senate > Vote 21 |url=https://voteview.com/rollcall/RS0230021 |website=voteview.com |publisher=UCLA Social Sciences Division Department of Political Science |access-date=30 June 2023}}</ref>

Following his loss to McKinley, Moore moved near Caddo Lake, Texas, in 1843. He died there on August 6, 1844, and was buried on the plantation of Peter Swanson.

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