Frank Edward "Ted" Moss (September 23, 1911 - January 29, 2003) is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as US Senator from Utah from 1959 to 1977.
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Early life and education
Frank Moss was born in Holladay, a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah, as the youngest of seven brothers James Edward and Maude (nÃÆ' Â © e Nixon) Moss. His father, a renowned high school educator, is known as the "middle school athletic father" in Utah. In 1929, he graduated from Granite High School, where he became chairman of a new class, a school newspaper editor, two state debate champions, and a center on the football team.
Moss then attended the University of Utah, where he was a double major in speech and history. During college, he was the second-class president and coach of the university debating team. He graduated magna cum laude in 1933. The following year, he married Phyllis Hart (daughter of Charles H. Hart), to whom he remained until his death in 2003; the couple had one daughter and three sons.
Moss studied at George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., where he became editor of The George Washington Law Review (1936-1937). While studying in Washington, he worked at the National Recovery Administration, Resettlement Administration, and Agricultural Credit Administration. He received his Doctor Juris title cum laude in 1937.
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Initial career
After being admitted to the bar, Moss was a member of the legal staff of the US Securities and Exchange Commission from 1937 to 1939. He then returned to Utah, where he opened a private practice in Salt Lake City and became a legal employee in Utah. Supreme Court Justice James H. Wolfe. In his first run for public office, he was elected a judge of the Salt Lake City Municipal Court in 1940. During World War II, he worked with the US Air Force at the Air Corps in the advocate department of judges at the European Theater (1942-1945).
After his military service, Moss returned to Salt Lake City and was re-elected as a town judge serving in that position until his resignation in 1950. He served as a county attorney for Salt Lake County from 1950 to 1959. During those years, he practiced law at Moss & amp; Hyde (1951-1955) and Moss & amp; Cowley (1955-1959). In 1956, he was a candidate who failed to nominate Democrats for the Utah Governor, losing to City Commissioner L.C. Romney.
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In 1958, Moss ran for the US Senate against two army commander Arthur V. Watkins, a close ally of both Eisenhower administration and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (see also Mormon), and also against J. Bracken Lee, a non-Mormon and former two-term Utah governor (1949-57), who walked as independent after losing to Watkins in the Republican Party. The Republican vote was divided in elections, largely due to local discontent with Watkins who had led committees denouncing Senator Joseph McCarthy, and Moss won elections with less than 40 percent of the vote.
Moss is the original legal sponsor to create Medicaid, a program to cover health care for low-income people.
Moss was elected for a second term in 1964, defeating Brigham Young University President Ernest L. Wilkinson. He was elected for a third term in 1970 defeating the four-period parliamentarian Laurence J. Burton. He gained national advantage over environmental, consumer and health care issues. Moss became an expert on water issues and wrote The Water Crisis in 1967. He worked to secure additional national parks for Utah and initiated important investigations into elderly care in nursing homes and nursing homes, and to doctors' Abuse federal Medicaid program. In 1974, Moss joined Senator Frank Church D-Idaho to sponsor the first law to provide federal funding for a hospital treatment program. The bill did not get widespread support and was not brought to the ballot. Congress finally included Hospice allowances in Medicare in 1982.
Moss led the Consumer Subcommittee of the Senate Trade Committee where he sponsored an Action, Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act in 1966, requiring detailed labeling of cigarette packets that looked at the health hazards of smoking and banned tobacco advertising on radio and television. She also sponsors Product Warranty and Product Warranty Guarantee (known as Magnuson-Moss Act), Toy Safety Act, Product Safety Act, and Package Poisoning Prevention Act. He was also chairman of the US Senate Committee for Aviation and Space Science from 1973 to 1977.
Moss ran for a fourth term in 1976 against Republican Orrin Hatch. Among other issues, Hatch criticized Moss's 18-year term in the Senate, saying, "What do you call a senator in office for 18 years? You call him home." Hatch argues that many Senators, including Moss, have lost touch with their constituents. Hatch won the election by a margin of nine unexpected points and went on to maintain the seat for the next 42 years.
After that, Moss returns to law practice in Washington, D.C. and Salt Lake City. To date, he is the last Democrat representing Utah in the US Senate.
References
External links
- Frank Moss in Utah History Encyclopedia
- United States Congress. "Frank Moss (id: M001033)". Directory of Biographies of the United States Congress .
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