Richard T. Moore
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Richard T. Moore is an American politician from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. He currently serves as a member of the Massachusetts State Senate.
[edit] Biography
Richard T. Moore was born August 7, 1943, in Milford, Massachusetts. He is married to the former Joanne Bednarz of Uxbridge, Massachusetts. The couple lives in Uxbridge.
Moore is a graduate of Clark University, and he earned a Masters Degree in Student Personnel Administration from Colgate University. He has completed additional graduate-level courses at Clark and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
[edit] Career
He was first elected to the Massachusetts State Senate on April 23, 1996, and he currently serves as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing. He is also a member of the Senate Committee on Bills in Third Reading; the Senate Committee on Post-Audit and Oversight; the Joint Committee on Higher Education; and the Joint committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets.
From 1977–94, Moore was a nine-term member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. During that tenure, Moore chaired three standing committees — Taxation, State Administration, and Election Laws — and served on numerous other committees and commissions.
He co-chaired the 1992 Bill Clinton for President campaign in Massachusetts and was chosen as a member of the Presidential Electoral College that year. In 1994, President Clinton nominated Moore to serve as Associate Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He was subsequently confirmed by the United States Senate and served in that role under the Clinton Administration for two years, during which he led efforts to develop a National Mitigation Strategy — a comprehensive, nationwide plan to help individuals, communities, and states reduce the risk of disaster from natural and technological hazards. In 1996, he was presented with the "Distinguished Service Award" by FEMA Director James Lee Witt.
He is a member of the Emergency Management Section of the American Society for Public Administration and co-chair of the National Conference of State Legislatures' (NCSL) Task Force on Homeland Security and Emergency Response — created in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks. He is also a member of Executive Committee of the NCSL.
Moore is also a past president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Society of Public Administration and represents the northeastern United States on the National Council of the American Society for Public Administration.
Professionally, Moore has served as associate dean of students of Assumption College and assistant to the president of Bentley College, as well as adjunct associate professor of government at several colleges and universities. Since 1997, Moore has been as a member of the Board of Trustees of Nichols College.
