John E. Moss

CA Blue Book 2000

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-02-1948	Democratic	AD-09	15397	Win
11-07-1950	Democratic	AD-09	27730	Win
11-04-1952	Democratic	CD-03	87335	Win
11-02-1954	Democratic	CD-03	96238	Win
11-06-1956	Democratic	CD-03	132930	Win
11-04-1958	Democratic	CD-03	169727	Win
11-08-1960	Democratic	CD-03	200439	Win
11-06-1962	Democratic	CD-03	138257	Win
11-03-1964	Democratic	CD-03	166688	Win
11-08-1966	Democratic	CD-03	143177	Win
11-05-1968	Democratic	CD-03	107446	Win
11-03-1970	Democratic	CD-03	103485	Win
11-07-1972	Democratic	CD-03	151706	Win
11-05-1974	Democratic	CD-03	122134	Win
11-02-1976	Democratic	CD-03	139779	Win

Candidate Biography:

John Emerson Moss Jr.
Born: April 13, 1915 in Hiawatha, Utah
Married: Jean Kueny (in 1935)
Children: Jennifer Moss and Allison Moss
Military Service: USN (WWII)
Died: December 5, 1997 in San Francisco, CA

1938: Director, California Young Democrats
1938-1980: Member of California Democratic State Central Committee
1942-1944: national committeeman of California Young Democrats
1978: Resigned from the United States House of Representatives on December 31.

• LEGISLATION: Author of the Freedom of Information Act (1968), which was probably the most important open-government law in the history of the United States. 
• LEGISLATION: Author of the Consumer Product Safety Act (1972), which created the Consumer Product Safety Commission.  
• PLACENAME: The John E. Moss Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse is located in Sacramento.
• PLACENAME: Moss Drive (near Land Park) in Sacramento, was likely named for Moss, who lived on the street in the 1940s and 1950s.

Source: California Blue Book (1950), (1954)
Source: "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present" (U.S. Library of Congress) [http://bioguide.congress.gov/]
Source: "Biography tells of Sacramento congressman who led a right-to-know revolution" by Michael Doyle, Sacramento Bee (5/29/2011)