From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

First elected to the Lynch, KY City Council in 1964, Oliver D. Moorer went on to win successive terms, serving until 1973. He was the city's first African American council member.

Oliver D. Moorer had been ruled off the ballot in 1963. He was one of six candidates removed from the ballot by Judge Edward Hill who ruled that their nominating petitions did not meet the state law requirements. The removals came after the six candidates filed a lawsuit. 

Born in Dutch Bend, AL, Oliver D. Moorer was employed as a coalminer with US Steel in Lynch, KY. He and his wife later moved to Newark, OH, where Oliver died in 2004. He was the son of Decatur and Letisha Moorer, and the husband of Gussie Lee Wilson Moorer (1917-2012) who was from Athens, GA. 

Moorer was part of the coal company recruitment of African American mine workers from Alabama. In 1935, Oliver and Gussie Moorer lived in Knoxville, TN. By 1940, the couple lived in Lynch, KY, where Oliver was a coal loader. 

For more see "36 city officials include mayor, police court judge," in Kentucky Directory of Black Elected Officials [1972] by the Commission on Human Rights, p. 14; "Six Lynch candidates ruled off the ballot." Tri-City News, 17 October 1963, front page; see Oliver D. Moorer in "Deaths and Funerals" in The Newark Advocate, 14 April 2004, p.4; 1940 US Census Schedule (Ancestry); see Gussie Lee Moorer in The Newark Advocate, 26 January 2012, p.4.