James Moore (South Carolina politician)

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Colonel James Moore was the British colonial governor of South Carolina between 1700 and 1703. During this period, he led a number of attacks from the Carolinas into Spanish Florida, where he and his men destroyed the town of St. Augustine. Governor Moore died in 1706, in debt. His son by the same name was elected to the same office in 1720. Moore was also the great-grandfather of General Robert Howe.