Barry Moore
Felix Barry Moore (1966- ) is the current Republican representative for Alabama’s First Congressional District. Elected in 2024, Moore previously represented Alabama’s Second Congressional District from 2021 to 2025. Before serving in the U.S. Congress, Moore represented Alabama’s Ninety-First District in the Alabama House of Representatives for eight years. Prior to entering politics, he founded an industrial waste hauling company now known as Hopper-Moore Inc., located in his hometown of Enterprise, which is in both Coffee and Dale Counties.
Moore was born to Billy and Shelbi Moore in Coffee County on September 26, 1966. He spent much of his youth on his family’s farm. After high school, Moore attended Enterprise State Junior College in Coffee County, from which he graduated with an associate's degree. He also attended Troy University in Troy, Pike County, and Auburn University in Auburn, Lee County, graduating in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural science. While at Auburn, Moore joined the Auburn ROTC Army Ranger Challenge Team. He also met his future wife, Heather Hopper Moore. The two married in 1992 and have four children.
After graduating from Auburn University, Moore remained in the Alabama National Guard and Army Reserve, serving a total of six years. He also worked in the animal pharmaceutical industry before returning to Enterprise to start Barry Moore Industries. Now known as Hopper-Moore Inc., it is co-owned with his wife and has been in business for more than two decades.
In 2010, Moore ran for the Alabama House of Representatives at the request of then-chair of the Alabama Republican Party, Mike Hubbard. Moore defeated the incumbent, Democrat Terry Spicer, to represent Alabama’s Ninety-First District. The 2010 state elections were historic for Alabama, as the Republicans won a majority in both the House and the Senate for the first time since 1874. Moore went on to serve in the state legislature for the next eight years, chairing the Military and Veterans Affairs Committee and serving as Vice-Chair of the Small Business & Commerce Committee.
In 2014, Moore was involved in a political scandal related to the probe into then-Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard and corruption in the state legislature. In April 2014, Moore was arrested and charged with felony perjury and lying to authorities during a grand jury investigation. He would eventually be acquitted of these charges, but Hubbard was found guilty of felony violations of state ethics laws and sentenced to four years in prison. Hubbard’s sentence later was reduced to 28 months, with a fine of $205,834.
Positioning himself to run for U.S. Congress, Moore became one of the first elected officials in the country to endorse then-candidate Donald Trump for president when he spoke to a crowd of 30,000 people at a Trump rally in Mobile, Mobile County, on August 21, 2015. In 2018, Moore ran for Alabama’s Second Congressional District but placed third in the primary behind Republican incumbent Martha Roby and former U.S. representative Bobby Bright, who ran as a Republican after switching his political affiliation from the Democratic Party. He placed second in that primary. Roby won the general election, and two years later, after she retired, Moore ran again and defeated Democrat Phyllis Harvey-Hall by a large margin in the 2020 general election to win a seat in the 117th Congress. The district then consisted of the southeastern part of the state, including Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Elmore, Geneva, Henry, Houston, and Pike Counties and part of Montgomery County.
Moore has served on the House Agricultural Committee and the House Judiciary Committee. He co-founded with Rep. Michael Cloud the Sunset & Repeal Caucus that aims to identify and repeal outdated laws. Some notable votes in his first term included objecting to the certification of the 2020 presidential election on the false claims of voter fraud. He opposed several of Pres. Joe Biden’s initiatives signed into law, including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and American Rescue Plan in 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS and Science Act in 2022. He voted to repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution and voted against the bipartisan ALLIES Act, which aimed to expedite visas for Afghans who assisted the U.S. military in Afghanistan.
In general, Moore was a frequent critic of President Biden and has supported popular Republican platforms, including efforts to build a wall along the Mexican border, improve border security, and deport undocumented immigrants. He supports increasing domestic energy production and gun rights, and even introduced a bill in the 118th Congress that would have made the AR-15 rifle the “National Gun of America.”
In 2022, Moore again handily defeated Harvey-Hall. Two years later, he found his reelection bid caught in the middle of the Allen v. Milligan redistricting case that went before the U.S. Supreme Court. Following the 2020 Census, the Alabama State Legislature had proposed a redistricting plan in which only one of the state’s seven districts was a majority-Black district. Voters, the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, and the Greater Birmingham Ministries filed a lawsuit against the state in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, arguing that the new map illegally minimized the number of districts in which Black voters could elect their preferred candidates and likely violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Initially, the Court ordered the state to create a new map, but then the U.S. Supreme Court suspended the ruling until it was brought before them. After hearing the case, the Supreme Court upheld the district court's opinion. The District Court subsequently appointed a special master to redraw the districts.
Two years later, Moore ran in the state’s redrawn First Congressional District against incumbent fellow Republican Jerry Carl. The district now includes part of Mobile County, as well all of Baldwin, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Escambia, Geneva, Henry, and Houston Counties. In a fiercely contested primary, Moore relied on the endorsements and support of prominent and outspoken congressional Republicans such as Rep. Jim Jordan, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Sen. Ted Cruz, and former president Donald Trump to counter Carl's numerous local endorsements. Moore narrowly won the primary and easily defeated Democrat Tom Holmes in the general election in the very conservative district.
In the current 119th Congress, Moore has sponsored a resolution calling for congressional term limits and several bills, including the Jeremy and Angel Seay and Sergeant Brandon Mendoza Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act of 2025, which would deport undocumented immigrants who have been charged with or committed the act of driving under the influence. He supports efforts to purchase Greenland and to abolish the federal Department of Education, the Internal Revenue Service and replace income taxes with a flat national sales tax. He has previously supported efforts to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Federal Insurance Office in the Department of the Treasury.
Moore and his wife live in Enterprise.
