Biography:

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 then-Attorney General 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 Ccounty 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 elected to the U.S. House in 1998 and twice has won re-election.

Moore and his first wife, Trish, had three children, now grown. He married his present wife, Stephene, in 1990 and has four stepchildren.

Past Campaigns:

Dennis Moore won his first bid for public office in 1976, when he defeated Republican incumbent Margaret Jordan by just 1,468 votes out of 106,290 cast to become Johnson County district attorney. He won re-election without opposition in 1980, and won in 1984 with 61 percent of the vote.

He did not seek re-election in 1988 after losing the 1986 race for attorney general to incumbent Republican Bob Stephan, who won the third of his four terms as attorney general with 53 percent of the vote.

Moore returned to the political arena in 1993 when he won election to the Johnson County Community College Board of Trustees. He was re-elected in 1997.

In 1998, Moore was elected to the U.S. House, unseating Republican Rep. Vince Snowbarger with 52 percent of the vote. In 2000, he was re-elected with 50 percent of the vote in a hard-fought campaign against conservative Republican Phill Kline.

A GOP moderate, newcomer Adam Taff, won the nomination to challenge Moore in 2002, but Moore won, 50 percent to 47 percent.

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