Moss, John Emerson

Moss, John Emerson
▪ 1998

      American politician who served (1953-79) as a Democratic representative from California; he championed consumer rights, was instrumental in dismantling government secrecy as the architect of the 1966 Freedom of Information Act, and played a leading role in the passage of acts on toy safety, poison packaging control, consumer product safety, and the 1974 automobile "lemon law" (b. April 13, 1915—d. Dec. 5, 1997).

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