Randle Thomas Moore, Sr. (March 15, 1874 in Mooringsport – September 18, 1957 in Shreveport), was an eminent figure in the development of northwestern Louisiana during the latter part of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Moore is best known to Louisiana history, of which he was a keen student, for a physical confrontation that he had on the streets of downtown Shreveport with the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. Of humble origin, Randle Moore was born to John Milton Moore and Jennie Elizabeth Mooring (née Jones), both Tennessee natives. His father was a farmer; so Moore spent much of his young life helping in the cotton fields. He eventually worked for others in the area at times for as little as fifty cents a day. In his thirteenth year, Randle raised an eight-bale cotton crop on his own, and used the proceeds to take a course at Draughon's Business College in Texarkana, Arkansas. The skills he acquired there, along with his natural acumen and experience, would serve him for the rest of his life. At sixteen, Moore found work in Texarkana, Texas, as a clerk in a general store, where he stayed for three years. Following his clerical work, Moore and his colleague Oliver K. High founded the Moore-High Shoe Company in Texarkana, in which he maintained a controlling interest for many years. In 1900, Moore married the former Martha Susan Frost, the daughter and sister, respectively, of eminent Arkansas lumbermen Enoch Wesley Frost and Edwin Ambrose Frost. Randle and Susie had four children: Wesley Frost Moore, Virginia Elizabeth Moore Lewis, Edwin Ambrose Moore, and Randle Thomas Moore, Jr. In 1901, Moore organized the Sabine Lumber Company in Zwolle, a community in Sabine Parish. The town only had about 275 inhabitants, and had been incorporated but two years earlier. As a result of his prominence in running the Frost Sawmill there, he also served as mayor. His interest in lumber was the direct result his marriage to Susan Martha Frost, whose father had founded the Frost-Trigg Lumber Company and, later, the Frost-Johnson Lumber Company. Moore subsequently became the president of the board of the company after the convalescence and death of his father-in-law. By 1905, Moore had left his father-in-law's company and taken over management of the DeSoto Land & Lumber Company, relocating his family to Mansfield, and taking a seat on the DeSoto