Background
Lee L. Moore was born on the 15th February 1939 in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
government official politician
Lee L. Moore was born on the 15th February 1939 in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
He attended primary and secondary school in St. Kitts, won a scholarship in 1957, and went to Kings College of the University of London. He graduated in 1962, but remained at the University to complete an LI.M. in 1963, after which he became a lecturer in law at the City of Birmingham College of Commerce.
In 1967 Moore returned to St. Kitts to set up private practice, joined the staff of Premier Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw as public relations officer, and became involved in the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla Labour Party and the St. Kitts and Nevis Trades and Labour Union. He was elected vice president of the labor union. In 1971 Moore first won a seat in the legislature on the Labour ticket. He was immediately appointed attorney general and minister of legal affairs, and later external affairs as well. He served in this position and held the party post of vice president until the death of party leader Robert Bradshaw in May 1978.
Moore mounted an unsuccessful challenge to Caleb Azariah Paul Southwell, who had succeeded Bradshaw both as party leader and premier. When Southwell died suddenly in May 1979, Moore, as party leader, assumed the premiership.
Moore inherited the problem of strong Nevisian resistance to association with St. Kitts and to independence under such an arrangement. Deciding to seek an immediate mandate for independence and to consoldiate the power of the Labour Party, Moore called elections in February 1980. Labour managed to win only four of nine seats, and a coalition between the Peoples Action Movement (PAM), led by Dr. Kennedy Alphonse Simmonds, and the Nevis Reformation Party (NRP), led by Simeon Daniel, replaced Labour in the government. Lee Moore became Leader of the Opposition, a post he continued to hold after Labour lost the elections of June 1984.