People Moss, John E.

John E. Moss

John Emerson Moss (April 13, 1915 – December 5, 1997) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, noted for his championing of the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) through multiple sessions of the United States House of Representatives where he served from 1953 to 1979. Moss was born in Hiawatha, Carbon County, Utah, in 1915, and moved with his family to Sacramento, California in 1923 where he attended public school and Sacramento Junior College. He held various sales, credit executive, and retail jobs from 1938 and 1943. In 1935 he married Jean Kueny, the daughter of Joseph and Winnefred (née West) Kueny of Galt, California. Together they had two daughters, Jennifer Afton (dob 3/14/1946)[citation needed] and Allison Effie, (dob 10/17/1949)[citation needed]. In 1938 he joined the California Democratic State Central committee where he remained until 1980. He died in San Francisco, California in 1997. Read more at Wikipedia...

Born: 1915, Hiawatha
Died: 1997, San Francisco

Occupation(s): politician

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