Doug Moseley
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Douglas Dewayne Moseley, known as Doug Moseley (born March 24, 1928), is a retired United Methodist minister and author
who served as a Republican
member of the Kentucky State Senate from 1974 to 1986. The Senate district included the eight counties of Adair
, Clinton
, Cumberland
, Green
, Metcalfe
, Russell
, Taylor
and Wayne
and at times Casey
and a part of McCreary
counties.
, the seat of Warren County
in western Kentucky
to J Lee Moseley (1904–1968) and the former Eva Lottie Moore (1907–1976). J Lee Moseley (The "J" stood for nothing.) was a teacher in the Boyce community, and the Moseleys originally lived in a tenant farm house on land originally owned by Doug Moseley's great-grandfather. Doug also has a sister Barbara Moseley who later married Bob Cockrum.
Moseley graduated in 1945 from Bowling Green High School. He is one of three members from that class inducted into the school's "Hall of Honor". He began his higher education at Western Kentucky University
in Bowling Green but transferred for his senior year to Kentucky Wesleyan College
in Owensboro
, from which he graduated in 1952. He subsequently procured his Master of Divinity
degree in 1957 from the Candler School of Theology
at Emory University
in Atlanta
, Georgia
. In 1985, he was awarded an honorary doctorate for his public service from Union College
in Barbourville
in Knox County
in southeastern Kentucky.
. From 1950 to 1955, he was the pastor of the Park City Methodist Church in Park City
, an assignment which also included two smaller Barren County
congregations, Highland and Old Zion. On his return from Emory University, Moseley was the pastor from 1958 to 1962 of the Russell Springs United Methodist Church in Russell Springs
in Green County. While still in Russell County, Moseley in 1960 began to teach religion courses at Methodist-affiliated Lindsey Wilson College
in Columbia
, the seat of Adair County. In 1962, Moseley became the chair of the Religion Department at Lindsey Wilson. He was later the assistant to the president for development and a tenured English professor for a decade.
After his Lindsey Wilson service and until his election to the state Senate, Moseley engaged in evangelistic work and was a drug and alcohol abuse counselor for the Lake Cumberland Area Development District. Throughout his state Senate service, Moseley continued to serve as pastor of various congregations. From 1974 to 1979, Moseley pastored the Trinity United Methodist Church in Columbia. From 1980 to 1983, he was a pastor in Albany
in Clinton County. His last assignment from 1983 to 1990 was the pastorate of St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Campbellsville
, the seat of Taylor County. Moseley recalls that no congregation created any obstacle to his simultaneous service as a state senator. Since his retirement in 1990, he has been a supply minister on various occasions.
, Thomas M. "Buck" Watson (1924–1998) of Columbia and M.C. "Doc" Keen of Burkesville
, the seat of Cumberland County. Watson had been a state representative from 1962 to 1966. Keen, who also served as Cumberland County sheriff
and county judge, was a nephew
by marriage of then U.S. Representative Tim Lee Carter
and a son-in-law of Pearl Carter Pace
, the first elected woman sheriff in Kentucky. Representative Carter did not become involved in the primary campaign. Years later, Moseley recalled the primary with kind remarks about his two rivals, whom he described as "personal friends". Moseley was then unopposed in the senatorial general election
held on November 6, 1973.
In the 1976 presidential primary campaign, Moseley supported Ronald W. Reagan's unsuccessful challenge to sitting U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, Jr. Moseley ran for a second term without opposition in 1977. In 1979, Moseley was state organization chairman of the gubernatorial campaign of former Governor
Louie B. Nunn
of Glasgow
, the seat of Barren County, who lost in a comeback attempt to the Democrat John Y. Brown, Jr.
. He had also supported Nunn in the hotly-contested gubernatorial primary in 1967, when the Barren County judge narrowly defeated Marlow W. Cook, later a Republican U.S. senator from Kentucky. Moseley had first become acquainted with Nunn during the early 1950s, when he pastored the Park City congregation.
Moseley was elected to the Kentucky Senate for the third and last time in 1981 in what was subsequently expanded into a temporary five-year term. He handily defeated his intraparty rival, Russ Mobley
, a theatre arts professor at Campbellsville University
, then Campbellsville College. In 2000, Mobley won the first of four consecutive terms as a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives
from Taylor and Adair counties. The legislature moved elections in 1984 from odd years to coincide with congressional races in even years. Moseley said that the change was motivated by the desire to prevent elections for the legislature at the same time as county judges.
During his Senate tenure, Moseley worked alongside State Representative
Herman Rattliff
of Campbellsville. Moseley did not seek reelection to a fourth term in 1986, when he was succeeded by fellow Republican David L. Williams
of Burkesville. At the time, Williams was an outgoing one-term member of the Kentucky House. Williams won the Republican nomination over Taylor County attorney Larry Noe of Campbellsville and then defeated Democratic opposition in the fall. In the 1991 gubernatorial primary, Moseley supported Larry Forgy
, who lost the nomination to then U.S. Representative Larry Hopkins
of Lexington
. Hopkins was then defeated by the Democrat Brereton Jones
.
of religious, social, and political life in the mid-South." The book also reflects the comedic side of Moseley's half-century in the ministry. Moseley has also published a volume of poetry
entitled A Table Speaks. He is working on a study of former U.S. Presidents from George Washington
to George W. Bush
in a pending manuscript called From George W. to George W.
A frequent civic club speaker known for his humor, Moseley advises his audiences to research genealogy
and to record for history the life stories of their ancestors.
In 1954, Moseley married the former Betty Jean Wyant, the daughter of a J.C. Penney
manager originally from Indiana
who was transferred to Glasgow, Kentucky. The Moseleys reside in Bowling Green and have three children: J Lewis Moseley (born 1956), a business executive in Franklin
, Tennessee
; Rebekah Ellen Bragg (born 1958), a retired teacher from Bowling Green, and Leslie Anne Watkins, also of Bowling Green.
In 2004, then Republican Governor
Ernie Fletcher
appointed Moseley to the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission. Prior to his time on the Ethics Commission, Moseley had served on the State Personnel Board, on the Kentucky Parole and Probation Board, and as district superintendent of the Kentucky Parks Department.
Author
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who served as a Republican
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
member of the Kentucky State Senate from 1974 to 1986. The Senate district included the eight counties of Adair
Adair County, Kentucky
Adair County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of 2010, the population is 18,656. Its county seat is Columbia, Kentucky. The county is named for John Adair, then Speaker of the House in Kentucky and later Governor of Kentucky ....
, Clinton
Clinton County, Kentucky
Clinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was formed in 1836. As of 2000, the population was 9,634. Its name is in honor of the seventh Governor of New York State, DeWitt Clinton. Its county seat is Albany, Kentucky, and it is a prohibition or dry county...
, Cumberland
Cumberland County, Kentucky
Cumberland County is a county located in the state of Kentucky in the United States. It was formed in 1799. As of 2000, the population was 7,147. Its county seat is Burkesville, Kentucky...
, Green
Green County, Kentucky
Green County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was formed in 1793. As of 2000, the population was 11,518. Its county seat is Greensburg. The county is named for Nathanael Greene...
, Metcalfe
Metcalfe County, Kentucky
Metcalfe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of 2000, the population was 10,037. Its county seat is Edmonton. The county is named for Thomas Metcalfe, Governor of Kentucky from 1828-32...
, Russell
Russell County, Kentucky
Russell County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The population was 17,565 in the 2010 Census. Its county seat is Jamestown. The county is named for William Russell...
, Taylor
Taylor County, Kentucky
Taylor County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of 2000, the population was 22,927. Its county seat is Campbellsville. The county is named for President Zachary Taylor, who served from 1849 to 1850. Taylor is a moist county...
and Wayne
Wayne County, Kentucky
Wayne County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of 2000, the population was 19,923. Its county seat is Monticello. The county was named for Gen. Anthony Wayne. It is a prohibition or dry county.-History:...
and at times Casey
Casey County, Kentucky
Casey County is a county located in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. It was formed in 1807. As of 2010, the population was 15,955. Its county seat is Liberty, Kentucky. The county is named for Colonel William Casey. It is the only Kentucky county entirely in Knobs region. Casey County is home to...
and a part of McCreary
McCreary County, Kentucky
McCreary County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of 2000, the population was 17,080. Its county seat is Whitley City. The county is named for James B. McCreary, a Confederate war hero and Governor of Kentucky from 1875 to 1879. It is the only Kentucky county to not have a...
counties.
Early years and education
Moseley was born in Bowling GreenBowling Green, Kentucky
Bowling Green is the third-most populous city in the state of Kentucky after Louisville and Lexington, with a population of 58,067 as of the 2010 Census. It is the county seat of Warren County and the principal city of the Bowling Green, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area with an estimated 2009...
, the seat of Warren County
Warren County, Kentucky
Warren County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky, specifically the Pennyroyal Plateau and Western Coal Fields regions. It is included in the Bowling Green, Kentucky, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 113,792 in the 2010 Census. The county seat is Bowling Green...
in western Kentucky
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
to J Lee Moseley (1904–1968) and the former Eva Lottie Moore (1907–1976). J Lee Moseley (The "J" stood for nothing.) was a teacher in the Boyce community, and the Moseleys originally lived in a tenant farm house on land originally owned by Doug Moseley's great-grandfather. Doug also has a sister Barbara Moseley who later married Bob Cockrum.
Moseley graduated in 1945 from Bowling Green High School. He is one of three members from that class inducted into the school's "Hall of Honor". He began his higher education at Western Kentucky University
Western Kentucky University
Western Kentucky University is a public university in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA. It was formally founded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1906, though its roots reach back a quarter-century earlier....
in Bowling Green but transferred for his senior year to Kentucky Wesleyan College
Kentucky Wesleyan College
Kentucky Wesleyan College is a private Methodist college in Owensboro, Kentucky, a city on the Ohio River. KWC is just 40 minutes east of Evansville, Indiana, 2 hours north of Nashville, Tennessee, 2 hours west of Louisville, Kentucky, and 4 hours east of St. Louis, Missouri...
in Owensboro
Owensboro, Kentucky
Owensboro is the fourth largest city by population in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is the county seat of Daviess County. It is located on U.S. Route 60 about southeast of Evansville, Indiana, and is the principal city of the Owensboro, Kentucky, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's...
, from which he graduated in 1952. He subsequently procured his Master of Divinity
Master of Divinity
In the academic study of theology, the Master of Divinity is the first professional degree of the pastoral profession in North America...
degree in 1957 from the Candler School of Theology
Candler School of Theology
Candler School of Theology, Emory University, is one of 13 seminaries of the United Methodist Church. Founded in 1914, the school was named after Warren Akin Candler, a former President and Chancellor of Emory University and a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
at Emory University
Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
in Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
. In 1985, he was awarded an honorary doctorate for his public service from Union College
Union College (Kentucky)
Union College is a four-year private college located in Barbourville, Kentucky. The college, founded in 1879, is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Union College is a small liberal arts college in the Appalachian Mountains...
in Barbourville
Barbourville, Kentucky
Each year in early October, Barbourville hosts the Daniel Boone Festival commemorating the American pioneer Daniel Boone who explored the area in 1775. The festival features open air concerts, carnival attractions, a beauty pageant, a parade, and other events....
in Knox County
Knox County, Kentucky
Knox County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of 2000, the population was 31,795. Its county seat is Barbourville. The county is named for General Henry Knox...
in southeastern Kentucky.
Methodist ministry
In 1942 at the age of fourteen, Moseley joined the Broadway United Methodist Church in Bowling Green, where he still holds his membership. He was licensed as a minister, with his first assignment as assistant pastor at the Broadway church. Thereafter, he was an assistant to the pastor for youth from 1948 to 1949 at the First United Methodist Church in HopkinsvilleHopkinsville, Kentucky
Hopkinsville is a city in Christian County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 31,577 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Christian County.- History :...
. From 1950 to 1955, he was the pastor of the Park City Methodist Church in Park City
Park City, Kentucky
Park City is a city in Barren County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 517 at the 2000 census. It has historically served as a gateway to nearby Mammoth Cave National Park and Diamond Caverns, a privately-owned cave attraction....
, an assignment which also included two smaller Barren County
Barren County, Kentucky
As of the census of 2000, there were 38,033 people, 15,346 households, and 10,941 families residing in the county. The population density was . There were 17,095 housing units at an average density of...
congregations, Highland and Old Zion. On his return from Emory University, Moseley was the pastor from 1958 to 1962 of the Russell Springs United Methodist Church in Russell Springs
Russell Springs, Kentucky
Russell Springs is the largest city in Russell County, Kentucky, United States. Also is the Gateway to Lake Cumberland one of the largest man made lakes in the region, created by Wolf Creek Dam. The area has thrived since the 1850s as a health resort because of its location near a chalybeate spring...
in Green County. While still in Russell County, Moseley in 1960 began to teach religion courses at Methodist-affiliated Lindsey Wilson College
Lindsey Wilson College
Lindsey Wilson College is a private four-year college affiliated with the United Methodist Church in an open ecumenical atmosphere. The 45 acre campus is located in Columbia, Kentucky. The school currently offers associate degrees in 11 areas of study, bachelor degrees in 20 areas of study and...
in Columbia
Columbia, Kentucky
Columbia is a city in Adair County, Kentucky, United States, just above Russell Creek. The area was settled around 1802 by Daniel Trabue. The post office was opened on April 1, 1806 by John Field, who also ran a local store. The population was 4,014 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of...
, the seat of Adair County. In 1962, Moseley became the chair of the Religion Department at Lindsey Wilson. He was later the assistant to the president for development and a tenured English professor for a decade.
After his Lindsey Wilson service and until his election to the state Senate, Moseley engaged in evangelistic work and was a drug and alcohol abuse counselor for the Lake Cumberland Area Development District. Throughout his state Senate service, Moseley continued to serve as pastor of various congregations. From 1974 to 1979, Moseley pastored the Trinity United Methodist Church in Columbia. From 1980 to 1983, he was a pastor in Albany
Albany, Kentucky
Albany is a city in Clinton County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,220 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clinton County. It is located on U.S. Route 127 about six miles from the Tennessee border.-History:...
in Clinton County. His last assignment from 1983 to 1990 was the pastorate of St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Campbellsville
Campbellsville, Kentucky
Campbellsville is a city in Taylor County, Kentucky, United States. The population within city limits was 10,498 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Taylor County, and the home of Campbellsville University...
, the seat of Taylor County. Moseley recalls that no congregation created any obstacle to his simultaneous service as a state senator. Since his retirement in 1990, he has been a supply minister on various occasions.
Moseley in politics
In 1973, the Senate District 16 incumbent, attorney James A. Hicks (1917–1990) of Clinton County, a Republican, did not seek reelection. Moseley won the Republican nomination for the seat in May by defeating his intraparty rivals in the primaryPrimary election
A primary election is an election in which party members or voters select candidates for a subsequent election. Primary elections are one means by which a political party nominates candidates for the next general election....
, Thomas M. "Buck" Watson (1924–1998) of Columbia and M.C. "Doc" Keen of Burkesville
Burkesville, Kentucky
Burkesville is a city in Cumberland County, Kentucky, United States. Nestled among the rolling foothills of Appalachia and bordered by the Cumberland River to the south and east, it is the county seat of Cumberland County...
, the seat of Cumberland County. Watson had been a state representative from 1962 to 1966. Keen, who also served as Cumberland County sheriff
Sheriff
A sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country....
and county judge, was a nephew
Nephew
Nephew is a son of one's sibling or sibling-in-law, and niece is a daughter of one's sibling or a sibling-in-law. Sons and daughters of siblings-in-law are also informally referred to as nephews and nieces respectively, even though there is no blood relation...
by marriage of then U.S. Representative Tim Lee Carter
Tim Lee Carter
Tim Lee Carter was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for the commonwealth of Kentucky from 1965 till 1981.-Background:...
and a son-in-law of Pearl Carter Pace
Pearl Carter Pace
Pearl Carter Pace was the first woman elected sheriff in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Pearl Carter had been born into a Tompkinsville, Kentucky, family devoted to public service...
, the first elected woman sheriff in Kentucky. Representative Carter did not become involved in the primary campaign. Years later, Moseley recalled the primary with kind remarks about his two rivals, whom he described as "personal friends". Moseley was then unopposed in the senatorial general election
General election
In a parliamentary political system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen. The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections.The term...
held on November 6, 1973.
In the 1976 presidential primary campaign, Moseley supported Ronald W. Reagan's unsuccessful challenge to sitting U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, Jr. Moseley ran for a second term without opposition in 1977. In 1979, Moseley was state organization chairman of the gubernatorial campaign of former Governor
Governor of Kentucky
The Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is the head of the executive branch of government in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Fifty-six men and one woman have served as Governor of Kentucky. The governor's term is four years in length; since 1992, incumbents have been able to seek re-election once...
Louie B. Nunn
Louie B. Nunn
Louie Broady Nunn was the 52nd governor of Kentucky. Elected in 1967, he was the first Republican elected to that office since Simeon Willis in 1943 and the last to hold it until the election of Ernie Fletcher in 2003....
of Glasgow
Glasgow, Kentucky
Glasgow is a city in and the county seat of Barren County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 14,200 at the 2000 census. The city is well-known for its annual Scottish Highland Games. In 2007, Barren County was named the number one rural place to live by Progressive Farmer magazine...
, the seat of Barren County, who lost in a comeback attempt to the Democrat John Y. Brown, Jr.
John Y. Brown, Jr.
This article is about one of four John Young Browns, from Kentucky, that have served political office. For others see: John Young Brown ...
. He had also supported Nunn in the hotly-contested gubernatorial primary in 1967, when the Barren County judge narrowly defeated Marlow W. Cook, later a Republican U.S. senator from Kentucky. Moseley had first become acquainted with Nunn during the early 1950s, when he pastored the Park City congregation.
Moseley was elected to the Kentucky Senate for the third and last time in 1981 in what was subsequently expanded into a temporary five-year term. He handily defeated his intraparty rival, Russ Mobley
Russ Mobley
Russell G. Mobley, known as Russ Mobley is a Republican former member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from District 51 in the south central portion of the state....
, a theatre arts professor at Campbellsville University
Campbellsville University
Campbellsville University, also known as CU, is a private university in Campbellsville, Kentucky, the seat of Taylor County. Founded as Russell Creek Academy, a Baptist institution, the university currently enrolls more than 3,000 students and is open to students of all denominations...
, then Campbellsville College. In 2000, Mobley won the first of four consecutive terms as a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives
Kentucky House of Representatives
The Kentucky House of Representatives is the lower house of the Kentucky General Assembly. It is composed of 100 Representatives elected from single-member districts throughout the Commonwealth. Not more than two counties can be joined to form a House district, except when necessary to preserve...
from Taylor and Adair counties. The legislature moved elections in 1984 from odd years to coincide with congressional races in even years. Moseley said that the change was motivated by the desire to prevent elections for the legislature at the same time as county judges.
During his Senate tenure, Moseley worked alongside State Representative
Kentucky House of Representatives
The Kentucky House of Representatives is the lower house of the Kentucky General Assembly. It is composed of 100 Representatives elected from single-member districts throughout the Commonwealth. Not more than two counties can be joined to form a House district, except when necessary to preserve...
Herman Rattliff
Herman Rattliff
Herman Willard Rattliff is a retired businessman from Campbellsville, Kentucky, who served from 1968-1986 as a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives. He authored the Rattliff-Ward Textbook Act of 1976....
of Campbellsville. Moseley did not seek reelection to a fourth term in 1986, when he was succeeded by fellow Republican David L. Williams
David L. Williams
David Lewis Williams is a lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. A Republican, he has represented Kentucky's 16th district in the Kentucky Senate since 1987. When Republicans gained control of the state senate in 2000, Williams was chosen as President of the Senate, and he has held...
of Burkesville. At the time, Williams was an outgoing one-term member of the Kentucky House. Williams won the Republican nomination over Taylor County attorney Larry Noe of Campbellsville and then defeated Democratic opposition in the fall. In the 1991 gubernatorial primary, Moseley supported Larry Forgy
Larry Forgy
Lawrence E. Forgy, known as Larry Forgy , is a Republican politician and former candidate for office from Lexington, Kentucky....
, who lost the nomination to then U.S. Representative Larry Hopkins
Larry Hopkins
Larry Jones Hopkins represented Kentucky's Sixth Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. He was the Republican nominee for Governor of Kentucky in 1991 and lost to Brereton C. Jones....
of Lexington
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 63rd largest in the US. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World", it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region...
. Hopkins was then defeated by the Democrat Brereton Jones
Brereton Jones
Brereton Chandler Jones is a horse breeder and politician from the US state of Kentucky. From 1987 to 1991, he served as lieutenant governor of Kentucky and from 1991 to 1995, he was the state's 58th governor...
.
Author and lecturer
In 2001, Moseley published the regional best seller, There Is More to Preaching, Than Just Preaching. According to Moseley, the book is an "oral historyOral history
Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews...
of religious, social, and political life in the mid-South." The book also reflects the comedic side of Moseley's half-century in the ministry. Moseley has also published a volume of poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
entitled A Table Speaks. He is working on a study of former U.S. Presidents from George Washington
George Washington
George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...
to George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
in a pending manuscript called From George W. to George W.
A frequent civic club speaker known for his humor, Moseley advises his audiences to research genealogy
Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
and to record for history the life stories of their ancestors.
In 1954, Moseley married the former Betty Jean Wyant, the daughter of a J.C. Penney
J.C. Penney
J. C. Penney Company, Inc. is a chain of American mid-range department stores based in Plano, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas. The company operates 1,107 department stores in all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. JCPenney also operates catalog sales merchant offices nationwide in many...
manager originally from Indiana
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
who was transferred to Glasgow, Kentucky. The Moseleys reside in Bowling Green and have three children: J Lewis Moseley (born 1956), a business executive in Franklin
Franklin, Tennessee
Franklin is a city within and the county seat of Williamson County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 62,487 as of the 2010 census Franklin is located approximately south of downtown Nashville.-History:...
, Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
; Rebekah Ellen Bragg (born 1958), a retired teacher from Bowling Green, and Leslie Anne Watkins, also of Bowling Green.
In 2004, then Republican Governor
Governor of Kentucky
The Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is the head of the executive branch of government in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Fifty-six men and one woman have served as Governor of Kentucky. The governor's term is four years in length; since 1992, incumbents have been able to seek re-election once...
Ernie Fletcher
Ernie Fletcher
Ernest Lee "Ernie" Fletcher is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. In 1999, he was elected to the first of three consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives; he resigned in 2003 after being elected the 60th governor of Kentucky and served in that office...
appointed Moseley to the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission. Prior to his time on the Ethics Commission, Moseley had served on the State Personnel Board, on the Kentucky Parole and Probation Board, and as district superintendent of the Kentucky Parks Department.