Richard Moe

Richard Moe
at the 2014 National Book Festival
Born	(1936-11-27) November 27, 1936 Duluth, Minnesota, U.S
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Williams College; University of Minnesota Law School
Genre	History
Notable awards	Vincent Scully Prize

Richard Palmer Moe (born November, 27 1936) is an American lawyer from Duluth, Minnesota. Following his graduation from Williams College (1959) and the University of Minnesota Law School (1966), Moe went on to a distinguished career in government, law, and historic preservation.

Early career

Richard Moe served as an administrative assistant to Minneapolis Mayor Arthur Naftalin from 1961-1962 and the Minnesota Lieutenant Governor A.M. Keith from 1963-1967.

Moe then worked for the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party. He worked as the finance director (1967-1968) and the chairman of the party (1969-1972). He was the second youngest chairman from the party.

He left the party in 1972 to work as an administrative assistant to Senator Walter F. Mondale. In 1977, Moe served as Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States during Walter Mondale's term. He later served as Mondale's presidential campaign team in 1984. Moe also worked on Dick Gephardt's presidential bid (1988) and Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign (1988).

In 1981, Moe started work at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he became a partner of the firm in 1986. Moe then served as President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Presidency of the National Trust for Historic Preservation

Moe led the National Trust for Historic Preservation for over sixteen years (1993–2009), and succeeded at expanding its budget despite funding reductions from Congress. He battled Tom DeLay and the Disney Corporation, among others, in his quest to save America's leading historical sites, such as Manassas battlefield. Moe also guided the trust in its major effort to preserve historic structures and sites in New Orleans, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Awards

In 2007, Moe was awarded the Vincent Scully Prize by the National Building Museum in recognition of his contributions to the built environment. That same year he received the Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award from the American Historical Association.

Personal life

Moe married Julia Neimeyer on December 26, 1964. They have two children. He lives in Washington, D.C..

Works

• Last Full Measure. Minnesota Historical Society Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-87351-739-3.
• Richard Moe, Carter Wilkie, Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl, Henry Holt and Company, 1999, ISBN 9780805061840
• Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War. Oxford University Press, USA. 12 August 2013. pp. 6–. ISBN 978-0-19-998192-2.

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN
  • C-SPAN Q&A interview with Moe, February 19, 2006