Archie Moore

Candidate Biography:

Archibald Lee Wright
Born: December 13, 1913 in Benoit, Mississippi
Married: Elizabeth Thorton, Joan Hardy (m. 1956)
Children: Reena, J'Marie, Elizabeth, Archie Jr., Hardy, Anthony and D'Angelo
Died: December 9, 1998 in San Diego, CA

• Professional Sports: Light-Heavyweight Boxing Champion.

• PLACENAME: The section of Route 15 between the Home Avenue exit and the Ocean View Boulevard exit is named the "Archie Moore Memorial Freeway". Archie Moore was a legendary boxer whose outstanding career endured through four decades and a record 143 knockouts and who won the light-heavyweight championship when he was nearly 39 years old. After winning his title, he defended it nine times. He served as a trainer in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and was elected to the Boxing Hall of Fame. He lived in a home on E street in San Diego where he operated a restaurant known as Archie Moore's Chicken Shack. He also ran the "Any Boy Can" program that taught at-risk youth how to box, and about competition, sportsmanship, self-reliance, self-discipline, confidence, and courage. - Source: cahighways.org