30 Facts About Henson Moore

William Henson Moore III was born on October 4,1939 and is an American attorney and businessman.

Henson Moore is a former member of the US House of Representatives, having represented Louisiana's 6th congressional district, based in Baton Rouge, from 1975 to 1987.

Henson Moore was only the second Republican to have represented Louisiana in the House since Reconstruction, the first having been David C Treen, then of Jefferson Parish.

In 1986, Moore was the unsuccessful Republican candidate in the race to replace the retiring US Senator Russell B Long.

Henson Moore lost to Democrat John B Breaux, then of Crowley in Acadia Parish in southwestern Louisiana.

The family lived in Hackberry in Cameron Parish and then moved to Baton Rouge, where Henson Moore graduated in 1958 from Baton Rouge High School.

Henson Moore was admitted to the bar in 1966 and the next year joined the Baton Rouge law firm Dale, Woen, Richardson, Taylor, and Mathews, first as an associate and then as a full member.

Henson Moore served in the United States Army from 1965 to 1967.

Henson Moore served on the elected Louisiana Republican State Central Committee from 1971 to 1975, when he entered Congress.

Henson Moore was a delegate to the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, which renominated the Reagan-Bush ticket.

Henson Moore was initially elected to the US House of Representatives on November 5,1974, during mid-term elections that produced huge Democratic gains in both houses of Congress.

Henson Moore succeeded John Richard Rarick of St Francisville in West Feliciana Parish north of Baton Rouge.

Henson Moore won the special election held on January 7,1975 with a decisive 74,802 votes to LaCaze's 63,366 ballots.

Henson Moore gained 13,768 votes in the second election, while LaCaze netted only an additional 2,346 ballots.

Henson Moore fared best in Washington Parish and his parish of residence, East Baton Rouge.

Henson Moore carried that part of Livingston Parish within the district as well as Tangipahoa Parish.

Henson Moore lost in East Feliciana, St Helena, and West Feliciana parishes.

Henson Moore stressed in speeches that the longstanding American deficit is financed by foreign capital, whose owners consider the United States a good place in which to invest.

Henson Moore was the first candidate to declare for Long's seat after the veteran lawmaker announced his retirement effective in January 1987.

Henson Moore had the immediate support of Republican colleague Bob Livingston of First District, who in 1987 launched an unsuccessful bid for governor of Louisiana.

Also strongly for Henson Moore was his friend Frank Spooner, the outgoing Republican national committeeman and an oil and natural gas producer in Monroe, who had lost the 1976 race for Louisiana's 5th congressional district to the Democrat Jerry Huckaby.

Henson Moore specifically called for greater job opportunities, expanded port facilities and exports, more emphasis on tourism, and the designation of a research hospital in Louisiana.

Henson Moore called for placing offshore revenues into a trust fund to support education.

Henson Moore demanded protection of American business from unfair foreign trade practices.

In 1992, Henson Moore became White House Deputy Chief of Staff for US President George Herbert Walker Bush during Bush's last year in office.

Henson Moore retired in 2007, and he and his wife, the former Carolyn Cherry, built a new home in Baton Rouge.

Henson Moore serves on the boards of directors of the American Council for Capital Formation and the United States - New Zealand Council.

Henson Moore is a member of the American Legion and Rotary International.

Henson Moore is Episcopalian and a member of Trinity Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge.

In 2002, Henson Moore was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.