Thomas Love Moore

Thomas Love Moore was a nineteenth-century congressman and lawyer from Virginia.
Born near Charles [Town, Virginia], Moore pursued an academic course as a child, studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was elected a Democratic-Republican to the United States [House of Representatives] to fill a vacancy, serving from 1820 to 1823. Afterwards, Moore continued practicing law in Warrenton, Virginia and made the principal speech upon the visit of Gilbert du Motier, [marquis de La Fayette|General La Fayette] to the town on August 23, 1825. He died in Warrenton in 1862 and was interred there in Warrenton Cemetery.