Carolyn Conn Moore
{{Short description|American politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Carolyn Conn Moore
|image =
|state_senate = Kentucky
|district = 5th
|term_start = November 1949
|term_end = January 1, 1952
|predecessor = J. Lee Moore
|successor = James R. Mansfield
|birth_name = Carolyn Conn
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|01|07}}
|birth_place = Adairville, Kentucky, U.S.
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|01|14|1904|01|07}}
|death_place =
|party = Democratic
|spouse = J. Lee Moore
|education =
|allegiance =
|branch =
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Carolyn Conn Moore (January 7, 1904 – January 14, 1986) was an American politician from Franklin, Kentucky who became the first woman to serve in the Kentucky Senate when in November 1949 she won a special election to replace her husband, J. Lee Moore, in the legislature after his death.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CCEfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9J0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6808,1057422&dq=caroline+moore+kentucky+legislature&hl=en|title=From senate to housemother, Mrs. Moore is mother of 110|last=Oswald|first=Sharon|date=5 January 1977|work=The Tuscaloosa News |publisher=The Tuscaloosa News |pages=8|accessdate=15 March 2010|location=Tuscaloosa}}
Family and career
Moore was married to J. Lee Moore, who was an attorney and legislator.
Moore was active in the Franklin County PTA and served as vice president of the Kentucky Congress of Parents and Teachers.{{cite web|url=http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08rs/SR228/bill.doc|title=A RESOLUTION paying tribute and honor to Carolyn Conn Moore}}
Kentucky Senate
After the death of her husband in 1949, Carolyn ran unopposed in a special election to fill her husband's seat in the 5th District seat representing Simpson County, Kentucky.
On March 25, 1950, the Kentucky General Assembly passed a motion that placed a plaque "on the desk occupied by Mrs. J. Lee Moore, the first woman member in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky."{{cite web |url=http://kydgi.ky.gov:2005/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/LM&CISOPTR=50&CISOBOX=1&REC=3 |title=Legislative Moments; Carolyn Conn Moore |work=Digatal Collection |publisher=Kentucky Historical Society |accessdate=15 March 2010 |location=Kentucky |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721043440/http://kydgi.ky.gov:2005/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2FLM&CISOPTR=50&CISOBOX=1&REC=3 |archivedate=21 July 2011 }}
After she completed the term, she took a job with the Democratic National Headquarters. She traveled the country speaking to women about political issues.
Later life and legacy
Later Moore worked as a recruiter for Belmont College in Tennessee. Moore moved to Tuscaloosa and worked as a housemother at Alpha Delta Gamma sorority. She continued working in politics through the League of Women Voters.
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Category:People from Franklin, Kentucky
Category:Women state legislators in Kentucky
Category:Democratic Party Kentucky state senators
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Category:20th-century members of the Kentucky General Assembly