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Elected [[1919 Philadelphia mayoral election|in 1919]], Moore first served as mayor of Philadelphia from 1920 to 1924. He was then appointed by the [[United States State Department]] as a delegate to the International Navigation Congress at [[Cairo, Egypt]], in 1926. After being defeated [[1927 Philadelphia mayoral election|in 1927]], he returned to the mayor's office in Philadelphia following a victory in the [[1931 Philadelphia mayoral election]], serving from 1932 to 1936 as its 111th incumbent.
Moore was responsible for Pennsylvania being one of only six states to be carried by President [[Herbert Hoover]] in his overwhelming defeat in the [[United States presidential election, 1932|1932 presidential election]]. The mayor was able to get enough Philadelphia voters out on Election Day to tip the state Republican, preserving an unbroken streak of Pennsylvania not voting Democrat in a presidential election since [[United States presidential election, 1856|1856]] (this would end as the state was carried by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in the following [[United States presidential election, 1936|1936 presidential election]].
During his terms as mayor, Moore banned the showing of films by [[Roscoe Arbuckle]] because the charges pending against Arbuckle for rape and murder would offend public morals. This motion occurred concurrent with Arbuckle's arrest, prior to Arbuckle's trial and eventual acquittal.<ref>{{cite book | last = Young | first = Donald Ramsey | title = Motion Pictures: A Study in Social Legislation | publisher = Westbrook Publishing Co. | year = 1922 | location = Philadelphia | pages = [https://archive.org/details/motionpicturesa00youngoog/page/n72 60] | url = https://archive.org/details/motionpicturesa00youngoog| quote = Roscoe Arbuckle. }}</ref>
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