Blair Moody

Arthur Edson Blair Moody ( born February 13, 1902 in New Haven, Connecticut; † July 20, 1954 in Ann Arbor, Michigan ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, who represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. Senate.

Moody went to Providence, the capital of the state of Rhode Iceland, to school and attended the Brown University, where he graduated in 1922 made ​​in economics. He then worked until the following year as a teacher of history at a secondary school in Providence.

1923 Moody moved to Detroit, where he reported as a journalist for the Detroit News about what is happening in Washington. The newspaper owned by his uncle William Scripps. This work, he went to 1951; during this time he wrote 1934-1948 as a correspondent for Barron's Financial Weekly. In 1944, he reported from several locations of the Second World War, including those from Italy and Africa. After the war, he hosted the radio and television broadcast program " Meet Your Congress "; 1947-1948 he was once again working as a foreign correspondent.

On April 22, 1951, Moody took up his position as a U.S. Senator. He was appointed as successor to the late Arthur H. Vandenberg to Washington and remained there until November 4, 1952. Choosing for the remaining full term Vandenberg's he lost, as are the next choice for a whole legislature, with him each Republican Charles E. Potter defeated. Moody took up his work in the media again, but also worked to bring a return to politics. While he was in 1954 in Ann Arbor election campaign operation to win the second Senate seat of the State of Michigan, he suffered a heart attack and died as a result of complications occurring.

Moody was married twice. Blair Moody Jr., son from his first marriage to Mary Ann Moody, in 1940 divorced, rose to the Supreme Court of Michigan. Ruth Moody, whom he married in 1946, gave birth to two sons.