Malcolm Charles Moos (April 19, 1916 – January 28, 1982) was an American political scientist, speechwriter and academic administrator. He was a professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University for two decades. As a speechwriter, Moos wrote President Dwight Eisenhower's final warning about the influence of the military-industrial complex in 1961. Moos then served as the president of the University of Minnesota from 1967 to 1974.

Early life

Moos was born on April 19, 1916, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from the University of Minnesota. He went on to receive his doctorate, also in political science, from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Career

Moos first taught at the University of Minnesota. He was a fellow at the University of California and a research assistant at the University of Alabama. He taught at the University of Wyoming in 1942, followed by Johns Hopkins University for 21 years. He was also an associate editor of the Baltimore Evening Sun.

Malcolm Moos

Moos joined President Eisenhower's staff as a special assistant in 1957 and became his chief speech writer in 1958. Among the many speeches Moos wrote for President Eisenhower, he wrote Eisenhower's valedictory speech which warned of the influence of the military-industrial complex in 1961.

Malcolm Moos

Moos taught Political Science at Columbia University for three years and he worked for the Rockefeller family for two years. He was director of policy and planning at the Ford Foundation from 1964 to 1967.

Moos served as the president of the University of Minnesota from 1967 to 1974. In 1967, Moos became the first native Minnesotan and alumnus to serve as a University of Minnesota president. During his tenure, Moos faced the rise of Civil rights and anti-war protests.

Moos was appointed as executive director at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California, in 1974. He tried to run for the United States Senate as a Republican but failed to secure the nomination in 1978.

Personal life and death

Moos married Margaret Tracy Gager, and he had five children. He died in his sleep at his home in northern Minnesota in 1982. He was said to have a heart condition.

References

External links

Records of Malcolm C. Moos, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

Finding aid for Malcolm Moos Oral History, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

1916 births

1982 deaths

The Baltimore Sun people

American political scientists

American political writers

Eisenhower administration personnel

University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni

Johns Hopkins University faculty

Presidents of the University of Minnesota

20th-century American non-fiction writers

20th-century American male writers

American male non-fiction writers

Speechwriters for presidents of the United States

20th-century American academics

20th-century political scientists