Born in
Salyersville,
Kentucky, Moore
read law in 1915, and was in private practice in
Charleston,
West Virginia from 1915 to 1940. He was a Commissioner in Chancery for the Circuit Court of
Kanawha County, West Virginia from 1918 to 1940, and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Kanawha County in 1941. ==Federal judicial service==