Alfred Moore

Alfred Moore lived from May 21, 1755 to October 15, 1810 and was an American judge, lawyer, planter and military officer who became an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Moore Square, a park in Raleigh, North Carolina, was named in his honor, as was Moore County, North Carolina, and he was also a founder and trustee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Moore is noted for having written just one opinion for the Court during his term of service, Bas v. Tingy, a minor case of maritime law; although a member of the Court for nearly four years, poor health kept him from the Courts business during much of his tenure, and he did not participate in the landmark case Marbury v. Madison, decided while he was on the Court. He has been described as one of the least effective justices in the history of the Court, his career having made scarcely a ripple in American judicial history.