Date Died: September 7, 1986

Place Buried: Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh, NC

Occupation: Lawyer

Daniel Killian Moore (April 2, 1906 – September 7, 1986) was the Democratic governor of the state of North Carolina from 1965 to 1969. Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Moore earned undergraduate and law degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He practiced law in Sylva, NC and served a term in the NC House of Representatives in 1941 before entering the US Army in World War II. After the war, Moore served as a NC Superior Court judge from 1948 to 1958. Subsequently, Moore served as counsel for the Champion Papers company in Canton, North Carolina, while also serving on the state Board of Water Resources. He left Champion to run for Governor in 1964. He was seen as the moderate in the Democratic primary, between the conservative I. Beverly Lake, Sr. and the more progressive L. Richardson Preyer. Moore won a primary runoff with Preyer.

After serving one term as governor (governors were not then eligible to be re-elected), Moore's successor, Governor Robert W. Scott, appointed him to the North Carolina Supreme Court, the first governor of North Carolina to be so honored. He served on the Court from November 20, 1969 until December 31, 1978.

At the 1968 Democratic National Convention Moore received 17-1/2 votes for president on the first ballot, finishing fifth behind Vice President Hubert Humphrey (1,760 1/2), Sen. Eugene McCarthy (601), Sen. George McGovern (146 1/2), and Rev. Channing E. Phillips (67 1/2). Moore received 12 of North Carolina's 59 votes, 3 from Virginia, 2 from Georgia and 1/2 vote from Alabama.

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