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Senate Years of Service: 1959-1977 Party: Democrat
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MOSS, Frank Edward (Ted), a Senator from Utah; born in Salt Lake City, Utah, September 23,
1911; attended the public schools; graduated from the University of Utah in
1933 and from George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C., in
1937; admitted to the bar in 1937; attorney for the Securities and Exchange
Commission, Washington, D.C., 1937-1939; during the Second World War served as
judge advocate in the European Theater with the Air Corps 1942-1945; colonel in
the United States Air Force Reserve (Ret.); elected Salt Lake City judge in
1940, reelected in 1945 and served until 1950 when he resigned; elected Salt
Lake County attorney in 1950, reelected in 1954 and served until 1959; elected
as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1958; reelected in 1964 and again
in 1970 and served from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1977; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1976; chairman, Committee on Aeronautical and Space
Sciences (Ninety-third and Ninety-fourth Congresses); secretary, Democratic
Conference, and served on the Steering and Policy Committees; resumed the
practice of law in Washington, D.C.; was a resident of Salt Lake City, Utah,
until his death due to pneumonia on January 29, 2003; interment in Salt Lake
City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
BibliographyMoss, Frank E.
The Water Crisis. New York: Praeger, 1967; Moss, Frank, and
Val J. Halamandaris.
Too Old, Too Sick, Too Bad: Nursing Homes in America.
Germantown, MD: Aspen Systems Corp., 1977.
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