{{short description|Governor of South Carolina from 1719 to 1721}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = His Excellency<!-- EDITORS NOTE: Please do not change the British honorific prefix as it would be historically inaccurate. Thank you. --> |name = James Moore Jr. |image = |caption = |office = 20th Governor of South Carolina |monarch = George I |term_start = December 21, 1719 |term_end = May 30, 1721 |predecessor = Robert Johnson |successor = Francis Nicholson }}
'''James Moore Jr.''' was (c. 1682{{endash}}March 3, 1724) was the governor of South Carolina from 1719 to 1721.<ref name='Lewis'>{{cite web|url=https://www.carolana.com/Carolina/Governors/jmoorejr.html|title=James Moore, Jr.|author=Lewis, J.D.|accessdate=June 9, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/moore-james-jr/ |title=Moore, James Jr. |last=Towles |first=Louis P |website=South Carolina Encyclopedia |publisher=University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies}}</ref>
==Biography== James Moore Jr. was born in South Carolina, c. 1682 to James and Margaret ({{nee|Berringer}}) Moore.<ref name="Heitzler2005-160">{{cite book|last=Heitzler|first=Michael James|title=Goose Creek, A Definitive History: Volume One, Planters, Politicians and Patriots|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=32l9iEyKUxkC&pg=PA160|accessdate=8 October 2011|year=2005|publisher=The History Press|isbn=978-1-59629-055-6|pages=160, 272}}</ref><ref name="OlwellTully2006">{{cite book|last1=Olwell|first1=Robert|last2=Tully|first2=Alan|title=Cultures and identities in colonial British America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6XqEkzVWNnkC&pg=PA60|accessdate=8 October 2011|year=2006|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-8251-7|pages=60–61}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
==South Carolina Revolution of 1719== * {{cite web |url=https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/proprietary-vs-royal-government-colonial-south-carolina |title=Proprietary vs. Royal Government in Colonial South Carolina |last=Butler, Ph.D. |first=Nic |website=Charleston Time Machine |publisher=Charleston County Public Library}} * {{cite web |url=https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/revolution-of-1719/ |title=Revolution of 1719 |last=Towles |first=Louis P |website=South Carolina Encyclopedia |publisher=University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies}} * {{cite web |url=https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/south-carolina-revolution-1719-part-1 |title=The South Carolina Revolution of 1719, Part 1 |last=Butler, Ph.D. |first=Nic |website=Charleston Time Machine |publisher=Charleston County Public Library}} * {{cite web |url=https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/south-carolina-revolution-1719-part-2 |title=The South Carolina Revolution of 1719, Part 2 |last=Butler, Ph.D. |first=Nic |website=Charleston Time Machine |publisher=Charleston County Public Library}}
==Further reading== * {{cite journal|title=The First Governor Moore and His Children|author=Webber, Mabel L.|journal=The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine|volume=37|number=1|date=January 1936|pages=1–23|jstor=27571450}} * {{cite journal|title=The South Carolina Royal Council, 1720-1763|author=Sirams, M. Eugene|journal=The William and Mary Quarterly|volume=18|number=3|date=July 1961|pages=373–392|publisher=Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture|doi=10.2307/1921171|jstor=1921171}}
{{s-start}} {{Succession box |before=Robert Johnson |title=Governor of South Carolina |years= 1719 to 1721 |after=Francis Nicholson}} {{s-end}} {{portal bar|Biography|British Empire|South Carolina}} {{authority control}}
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