18 Facts About Frank Moss

Frank Edward "Ted" Moss was an American lawyer and politician.

Frank Moss was born in Holladay, a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah, as the youngest of seven children of James Edward and Maude Moss.

Frank Moss studied at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, where he was an editor of The George Washington Law Review.

Frank Moss then returned to Utah, where he opened a private practice in Salt Lake City and became a law clerk to Utah Supreme Court justice James H Wolfe.

Frank Moss served as county attorney for Salt Lake County from 1950 to 1959.

In 1958, Moss ran for the US Senate against two-term incumbent Arthur V Watkins, a close ally of both the Eisenhower administration and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and against J Bracken Lee, a non-Mormon and former two-term Utah governor, who was running as an independent after losing to Watkins in the Republican primary.

The Republican vote was split in the general election, largely over local dissatisfaction with Watkins's having chaired the committee that censured Senator Joseph McCarthy, and Frank Moss won election with less than 40 percent of the vote.

Frank Moss was an original sponsor of laws to create Medicaid, a program to cover health care for low income people.

Frank Moss was elected to a third term in 1970 defeating four-term Congressman Laurence J Burton.

Frank Moss gained national prominence with regard to environmental, consumer, and health care issues.

Frank Moss became an expert on water issues and wrote The Water Crisis in 1967.

Frank Moss worked to secure additional national parks for Utah and started important investigations into the care of the elderly in nursing and retirement homes, and into physicians' abuses of the federal Medicaid program.

In 1976, his capacity as chairman of the US Senate Subcommittee on Long-Term Care, Senator Frank Moss made a first-hand investigation of waste, fraud and mismanagement in the Medicaid program by posing as a patient and visiting the East Harlem Medical Center in New York City.

In 1976 Moss backed a constitutional amendment overturning Roe v Wade and outlawing abortion.

Frank Moss chaired the Consumer Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee where he sponsored a measure, the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1966, requiring detailed labeling on cigarette packages noting the health hazards of smoking and banning tobacco advertising on radio and television.

Frank Moss sponsored the Consumer Product Warranty and Guarantee Act, the Toy Safety Act, the Product Safety Act, and the Poison Prevention Packaging Act.

Frank Moss was Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences from 1973 to 1977.

Frank Moss ran for a fourth term in 1976 against Republican Orrin Hatch.