{{Short description|American political scientist (1916–1982)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Malcolm Moos | image = Malcolm Charles Moos.jpg | image_upright = yes | order = 10th | title = President of the<br />University of Minnesota | term_start = 1967 | term_end = 1974 | predecessor = O. Meredith Wilson | successor = C. Peter Magrath | birth_date = {{birth date|1916|4|19}} | birth_place = Saint Paul, Minnesota | death_place = Ten Mile Lake, Minnesota | death_date = {{Death date and age|1982|1|28|1916|4|19}} }} '''Malcolm Charles Moos''' (April 19, 1916 – January 28, 1982)<ref>{{cite LCAuth |id=n97075381}}</ref> 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.<ref name="telegraphobit">{{cite news |title=Ex-Ike Aide Dies |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JKMrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oPwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5329,5732252&dq=malcolm-moos&hl=en |accessdate=June 23, 2019 |work=The Nashua Telegraph |location=Nashua, New Hampshire |date=January 29, 1982}}</ref><ref name="startribune">{{cite news |title=Malcolm Moos, former 'U' president and Eisenhower aide, is dead at 65 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/181137149/?terms=%22Malcolm%2BMoos%22 |access-date=June 23, 2019 |work=Star Tribune |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |date=January 29, 1982|pages=1; 4|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from the University of Minnesota.<ref name="minneapolisstarobit">{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Dave |title=Malcolm Moos, who lived in limelight, dies in solitude |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/178843677 |access-date=June 23, 2019 |work=The Minneapolis Star |date=January 29, 1982|pages=1; 4|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He received his doctorate, also in political science, from the University of California at Berkeley.<ref name="univminnesotabio">{{cite web |title=Malcolm Moos, 1967-1974 |url=https://president.umn.edu/about/presidential-history/malcolm-moos |website=Office of the President |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=June 23, 2019}}</ref>
==Career== Moos first taught at the University of Minnesota.<ref name="startribune"/> He was a fellow at the University of California and a research assistant at the University of Alabama.<ref name="startribune"/> He taught at the University of Wyoming in 1942, then at Johns Hopkins University for 21 years.<ref name="minneapolisstarobit"/><ref name="startribune"/> He was also an associate editor of the ''Baltimore Evening Sun''.<ref name="minneapolisstarobit"/>
Moos joined President Eisenhower's staff as a special assistant in 1957 and became his chief speechwriter in 1958. Among the many speeches Moos wrote for Eisenhower was Eisenhower's 1961 valedictory speech, which warned of the influence of the military-industrial complex.<ref name="minneapolisstarobit"/>
Moos taught political science at Columbia University for three years and worked for the Rockefeller family for two years.<ref name="minneapolisstarobit"/> He was director of policy and planning at the Ford Foundation from 1964 to 1967.<ref name="minneapolisstarobit"/>
Moos served as the president of the University of Minnesota from 1967 to 1974.<ref>{{Cite web|title=University of Minnesota - Presidential History|date=7 November 2019|url=https://system.umn.edu/presidential-history|publisher=University of Minnesota|access-date=August 1, 2024|archive-date=1 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240801150036/https://system.umn.edu/presidential-history|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="minneapolisstarobit"/> In 1967, he became the first native Minnesotan and alumnus to serve as a University of Minnesota president.<ref name="univminnesotabio"/> During his tenure, Moos faced the rise of civil rights and anti-war protests.<ref name="minneapolisstarobit"/>
In 1974, Moos was appointed executive director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California.<ref name="startribune"/> In 1978, he ran for the United States Senate as a Republican but failed to win the nomination.<ref name="startribune"/>
==Personal life and death== Moos married Margaret Tracy Gager, and he had five children.<ref name="startribune"/> He died in his sleep at his home in northern Minnesota in 1982.<ref name="startribune"/> He was said to have had a heart condition.<ref name="telegraphobit"/>
==See also== *List of presidents of the University of Minnesota
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==External links== *[http://eisenhower.archives.gov/Research/Finding_Aids/M.html Records of Malcolm C. Moos, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library] *[http://eisenhower.archives.gov/Research/Oral_Histories/Oral_Histories.html Finding aid for Malcolm Moos Oral History, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library]
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