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Moore, Former Newsman And Aide To Bob Graham, Dies

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: September 15, 2008

TALLAHASSEE - Jere N. Moore Jr., a former general desk editor in New York for The Associated Press who also served as the news cooperative's Tallahassee correspondent, has died after a brief battle with lung cancer. He was 76.

Moore's death was confirmed by his daughter, Carolyn Yarbrough of Tallahassee.

Moore joined AP in 1960 in Louisville and moved to New York in 1966 where he spent six years before being assigned to Tallahassee in 1972. Moore left AP to join the Florida Times-Union.

He left journalism to join former Gov. Bob Graham's administration as a cabinet aide and later worked at two other state agencies.

A retired colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, Moore was appointed by Graham to become the elections supervisor in Leon County after a botched election in 1986.

A graduate of Washington and Lee University, Moore will be buried in his Milledgeville, Ga., hometown after a funeral service Tuesday in Tallahassee.

The Associated Press

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