• Office Sought: Representative, Kansas (3)
• Birth Date: Nov. 8, 1945
• Occupation: Attorney, District Attorney
• Religion: Protestant
• Web site: http://www.mooreforcongress.com

Education

• University of Kansas, BA
• Washburn University, JD

Dennis Moore lives in Lenexa, Kan., in the prospering Johnson County suburbs outside Kansas City. He grew up in Wichita, where his father, Warner Moore, ran for Congress in 1958 and lost by less than one percent of the vote.

Moore graduated in 1963 from Wichita Southeast High School, attended Southern Methodist University and earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1967 from the University of Kansas. He received a law degree in 1970 from Washburn University in Topeka, Kan.

He was an assistant attorney general under Vern Miller from 1971 to 1973, before entering private practice in Johnson County. He was elected district attorney in 1976 and re-elected in 1980 and 1984, in all serving 12 years as Johnson County prosecutor.

He was the Democratic nominee for attorney general in 1986 but lost to incumbent Republican Bob Stephan. Moore returned to private practice and grew prominent as a criminal defender.

He was elected to the Johnson County Community College Board of Trustees in 1993 and was re-elected in 1997.

He was first elected to the U.S. House in 1998.

Moore and his first wife, Trish, had three children. He remarried in 1990 and has four stepchildren with Stephene Moore.