18 Facts About Blair Moody

Arthur Edson Blair Moody, known as Blair Moody, was a journalist and Democratic US Senator from the state of Michigan.

Blair Moody graduated from Brown University with a degree in economics in 1922.

Blair Moody was the heavyweight boxing champion at Brown at one time.

Blair Moody was offered a contract by the professional baseball team the St Louis Cardinals to pitch, but declined.

Blair Moody moved to Detroit, Michigan and worked from 1923 to 1951 as a reporter covering Washington, DC, for the Detroit News, a newspaper owned by his uncle, William Scripps.

Blair Moody was a correspondent for Barron's Financial Weekly from 1934 to 1948 and wrote for the North American Newspaper Alliance and the Bell Syndicate.

Blair Moody was a combat war correspondent in 1944, covering the war in Italy, Africa, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and Iran.

Blair Moody moderated a radio and television program Meet Your Congress from 1946 to 1952.

Blair Moody served from April 23,1951, to November 4,1952.

Blair Moody was appointed to the Senate Banking and Currency Committee and the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments.

Blair Moody is remembered for his proposal for presidential debates, an idea that did not take hold until the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon televised debates.

An unsuccessful candidate for election in 1952, Moody lost to Republican Charles E Potter in the Dwight D Eisenhower presidential landslide.

Blair Moody resumed his newspaper and television career as the host and moderator of the "Meet Your Congress" television show.

Blair and Ruth Moody had two sons, Christopher and Robin.

From 1946 until 1954, Blair Moody is reported to have had an affair with Helen Knowland, the wife of his friend Republican Senator William Knowland.

Blair Moody died age 52 on July 20,1954, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for the other US Senate seat from Michigan, of a heart attack following complications of viral pneumonia.

Robert O Blair Moody is the founder and President of Daedalus Books, the oldest independent bargain book wholesaler in America, established in 1980.

In 1941, Blair Moody authored Boom or Bust, a book charting his post-World War II vision for American democracy.