John E. Moss

A Representative from California. Born in Hiawatha, Carbon County, Utah, April 13, 1915. Moved to Sacramento, Calif. , with his parents in 1923. Attended the public schools and Sacramento Junior College 1931-1933. Engaged in sales, credit executive, and retail business 1938-1943. Member of California Democratic State Central committee 1938-1980. National committeeman of California Young Democrats 1942-1944. Served in the United States Navy 1943-1945. Licensed real estate broker, 1945-1984. Member of the California state assembly and served as assistant Democratic floor leader at the 1949-1952 sessions. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third Congress. Reelected to the twelve succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1953, until his resignation December 31, 1978. Was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress. Died on December 5, 1997, in San Francisco, Calif. Interment in the Odd Fellows Lawn Cemetery and Mausoleum, Sacramento, Calif.