High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Moore, Jr. was a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1967 to 1973 from McLennan County. Moore is most notable for an April Fool`s Day prank he played to demonstrate that his fellow legislators often did not read the legislation they were approving. Moore introduced legislation on 1 April 1971 commending Albert de Salvo — more commonly known as the Boston Strangler — with wording such as this: