Andrew Barry Moore, governor of Alabama, was born in Spartanburg district, S.C., March 7, 1806. He removed to Alabama in 1826, taught school for two years in Perry county, and was admitted to the bar in 1833. He was a representative in the state legislature several terms, being speaker three terms. In 1848 he was nominated as a presidential elector on the Whig ticket; was circuit judge of Alabama, 1852-57; was elected as a Democrat, governor of the state in 1857, and Was twice re-elected, serving 1857-61. At the outbreak of the civil war he directed the seizure of the U.S. forts and arsenals in Alabama, before the secession of the state, and at the close of his term of office in 1861 he was appointed special aide-de-camp to Gov. John Gill Shorter, his successor. He was arrested for treason and imprisoned in Fort Pulaski in 1865, and upon his release he resumed his law practice in Marion, Ala., where he died,

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans 1904

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