Samuel B. Moore was the sixth Governor of the U.S. state

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 of Alabama

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 from March 3 to November 26, 1831. He was president of the Alabama Senate

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 when Governor Gabriel Moore

Gabriel Moore

Gabriel Moore was a Democratic-Republican politician from Alabama, born in Stokes County, North Carolina. Moore's most prominent role was as fifth Governor of the US state of Alabama from 1829 to 1831; he also was the second Representative of the state of Alabama, and the first Representative of...

 was elected to the United States Senate

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, and so became governor when Gabriel Moore resigned to take the seat.

Samuel Moore was born in Franklin County

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, Tennessee

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, in 1789 but moved to Jackson County

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, Alabama when he was still young. His political career began in 1823 when he was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives

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 and then elected to the Alabama Senate in 1828. He served as president of the Senate in 1831 when he succeeded Gabriel Moore. Like his predecessor, Samuel Moore continued to survey the Coosa River

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, build infrastructure, and oppose nullification

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. Later, in 1831, Moore was entrenched in a heated election battle against John Gayle, who eventually defeated the incumbent

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. After his defeat, he was re-elected to his State Senate post, and again served as the Senate's president in 1835. He later returned home to Pickens County

Pickens County, Alabama

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, Alabama, and served on its county court from 1835 until 1841. Moore died in 1846 and is interred at the city cemetery in Carrollton

Carrollton, Alabama

Carrollton is a town in Pickens County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 987. The city is the county seat of Pickens County....

 in Pickens County.

Biographies

• History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography by Thomas M. Owen (1978
  1978 in literature
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  , ISBN 0-87152-259-4)
• The Governors of Alabama by John Craig Stewart (1975
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  , ISBN 0-88289-067-0)