Kirke T. Moore

Kirke Tonner Moore (born October 4, 1882 in Topeka , Kansas , † March 15, 1938 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ). He was the last Superintendent of Public Instruction for the Arizona Territory .

Career

Kirke Tonner Moore, son of Milton Randolph Moore (1846-1907) and his wife Annie J. (1852-1940; maiden name: Perkins), was born in Topeka (Kansas) in 1882, where he spent the first years of his life. The Moore family moved to the Arizona Territory in 1889. His father was a well-known politician there, who represented Pinal County in the 18th  Territorial Legislature of the Arizona Territory . President William McKinley appointed him in 1898 to the registrar in the United States Land Office in Tucson ( Pima County ). Kirke Tonner Moore attended public schools in the Arizona Territory. He then went to the University of Arizona , where he did a Bachelor of Arts . Moore then attended Stanford University , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1908 .

After returning to the Arizona Territory, he was admitted to the bar . He was also admitted to the bar in the United States District Court and the Supreme Court .

The governor of Arizona Territory Joseph Henry Kibbey appointed him on 17 March 1909. Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Arizona Territory to the vacancy to fill, by the resignation of RL Long was born. In 1911, he was reappointed Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Arizona Territory by Arizona Territory Governor Richard Elihu Sloan .

Moore was a member of the last or 25th Territorial Legislature of the Arizona Territory and the first State Legislature . In November 1911, he took his seat as a Republican in the House of Representatives for the Arizona Territory and then in 1912 in the House of Representatives from Arizona .

After his tenure as Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Arizona Territory it was during the First World War for the US federal government operates. In 1922 he was appointed Superior Court Judge in Pima County. Moore was known as the Father of Arizona Aviation when he chaired the State Aviation Committee .

Kirke T. Moore died in California in the spring of 1938 at the age of 55.

Awards and honors

The University of Arizona annually awards the eponymous Fellowship Kirke ton Moore Scholarship .

literature

• Bury, John Charles: The Historical Role Of Arizona's Superintendent Of Public Instruction , Volume 2, Northern Arizona University, December 1974, pp. 293-300

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kirke T. Moore in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 5, 2017.
2. ^ Milton Randolph Moore in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 5, 2017.
3. ↑ Annie J. Perkins Moore in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 5, 2017.
4. ↑ Kirke Tonner-Moore Scholarship , scholarshiplibrary.com, accessed February 17, 2017.