Who was Wes Moores father?

William Westley Moore Jr. is the father of Westley Watende Omari Moore (Wes Moore), an American author, entrepreneur, television producer, and United States Army veteran.

Wes Moore’s father William Westley Moore Jr. was a broadcast journalist.

Sadly, Wes Moore’s father died on April 16, 1982, from acute epiglottitis when he [Wes Moore] was about 4 years old.

Two years after the death of his father, thus in 1884, Wes Moore’s mother Joy Thomas Moore, took him and his two sisters to live in the Bronx, New York, with their grandparents.

Wes Moore graduated Phi Theta Kappa from Valley Forge in 1998, with an associate degree, completed the requirements for the United States Army’s early commissioning program, and was appointed a second lieutenant of Military Intelligence in the Army Reserve.

Wes Moore went on to attend Johns Hopkins University where he studied international relations and economics and graduated Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa in 2001.

Immediately after graduating from Hopkins University, he attended the Wolfson College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar where he earned a master’s degree in international relations.

He served in the Army until 2006, including overseas deployment for the War in Afghanistan, and attained the rank of captain before leaving the military in 2006.

Wes Moore launched his campaign to become the Democratic candidate for Maryland governor on June 7, 2021.