William T. Moore (Texas politician)
| William Tyler "Bill" Moore, Sr. | |
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| Member of the Texas Senate from the 5th district |
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In office 1967–1981 |
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| Preceded by | Neveille Colson |
| Succeeded by | Kent Caperton |
| Member of the Texas Senate from the 11th district |
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In office 1953–1967 |
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| Preceded by | George M. Parkhouse |
| Succeeded by | Barbara Jordan |
| Member of the Texas Senate from the 14th district |
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In office 1949–1953 |
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| Preceded by | Joseph Alton York |
| Succeeded by | Johnnie B. Rogers |
| Texas Senate President Pro Tempore | |
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In office 1957–1957 |
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| Preceded by | J. Searcy Bracewell, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Jep S. Fuller |
| Member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 26th district | |
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In office 1947–1949 |
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| Preceded by | George E. Adams |
| Succeeded by | James K. Presnal |
| Personal details | |
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April 9, 1918 Wheelock Robertson County Texas, USA |
| Died | May 27, 1999 (aged 81) Bryan, Brazos County Texas |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Macille Moore |
| Children | W. Tyler Moore, Jr. |
| Residence | Bryan, Texas |
| Alma mater | University of Texas Law School |
| Occupation |
Lawyer Businessman |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
William Tyler Moore, Sr., known as W. T. "Bill" Moore (April 9, 1918 – May 27, 1999), was an attorney and businessman in Bryan, Texas, who was a conservative Democratic member of the Texas State Senate from District 5 from 1967 until 1981. Moore originally represented District 14 from 1949 to 1953 and then revised District 11 from 1953 to 1967. In 1957, Moore was the Senate President Pro Tempore in the 55th legislative session.
After thirty-two years in the Senate, Moore was unseated in the 1980 party primary by former Bryan City Judge Kent Caperton, who was born the year that Moore entered the upper chamber of the state legislature. Caperton received 52.6 percent of the ballots cast.
Though he was dubbed by the media as the "Bull of the Brazos," a reference to the intrastate Brazos River to the west of Bryan, Moore is also remembered as the lawmaker who pushed most forcefully for the physical expansion of the campus and the admission of women to his alma mater, Texas A&M University in College Station.
Moore was born in Wheelock in Robertson County, Texas, and reared in Edge in Brazos County. His first job was as a salesman at the former Montgomery Ward in downtown Bryan. He graduated in 1940 from TAMU with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and taught at his alma mater until 1943, when he joined the United States Army Air Corps, the forerunner of the Air Force. He was sent into active duty in both theaters of the war and discharged as a sergeant in 1946. That same year he was elected to a single term from District 26 in the Texas House of Representatives from Brazos County. As a legislator he enrolled at the University of Texas Law School in Austin, from which he received his degree in 1949 and was already in the first of his eight full terms in the state Senate.
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