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Walter Scott Moore, also known as W.S. Moore, (1853–1919) was the president of the Los Angeles, California, Common Council in 1883–84 and chief engineer of the city's Fire Department at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. He was ousted during an investigation into fraud in the department. He was the Republican candidate for California Secretary of State in 1886 and also ran for the state Senate. ==Biography== Moore was born December 23, 1853, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Isaac Walker Moore of Pennsylvania and Margaret Harvey Hughes of Maryland. His father died in the year of Walter's birth.〔(Clare Wallace, Los Angeles Public Library reference file ) See further references there.〕〔 He had a sister, Fannie M. Shoemaker.〔 At the age of 20 or 21 he and his mother visited Los Angeles on a pleasure trip in 1874, and he moved to that city soon after, where he engaged in real estate and insurance. He was also admitted to the bar but never practiced as a lawyer.〔 He was married on November 17, 1877, in Los Angeles to Amenaida Raphela LanFranco. Their children were Walter Scott Jr., Margaret (Mrs. Richard O'Neil) and Rowena (Mrs. Paul Selby of Johannesburg, South Africa).〔〔 Mr. Moore was interested in Republican politics over a long period of years. He was a prominent civic figure, popular as a public speaker and after-dinner orator, and at different times was candidate for the () Senate and Secretary of State. . . . For forty years he was a member of Masonic Lodge 42 and was historian of the Elks organization.〔 He died at the age of 66 in his home at 34 Saint James Park, in today's University Heights district, on March 30, 1919.〔〔("Walter Scott Moore Is Claimed by Death," ''Los Angeles Times,'' March 31, 1919, page II-1 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Scott Moore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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