Thomas Overton Moore (April 10 1804– June 25 1876) was an attorney and politician who was the 16th Governor of Louisiana from 1860 until 1864 during the American Civil War. Anticipating that Louisiana’s Ordinance of Secession would be passed in January 1861 he ordered the state militia to seize all U.S. military posts.
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