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Clif Moore

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ5132497 ↗
Source-derived summary

Clifton Moore (born February 15, 1949) is an American former politician who was a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 2004 to 2016. He currently serves as Assistant Majority Whip.

Editorial summary

“Clif Moore” enters the record as american politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Clif, Moore and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 2004, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1949-02-15. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Clif, Moore and American.
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Why this record matters

“Clif Moore” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Clif, Moore and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5132497. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949, 2004 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Clif Moore” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.