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Jeremy Moss
American politician (born 1986) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jeremy Allen Moss (born June 23, 1986) is an American politician from Southfield, Michigan currently representing the 7th State Senate District.[1] A member of the Democratic Party, he is the first openly LGBT person elected to the Michigan Senate, as well as the first to serve as President Pro Tempore.[2] Moss previously served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2014–2018, and remains the youngest-ever member of the Southfield City Council.[3][4]
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Personal life
Moss was born on June 23, 1986, in Detroit and is a lifelong resident of Southfield, Michigan.[3][4] He attended Hillel Day School and graduated from Wylie E. Groves High School in the Birmingham Public School District.[5]
He graduated with high honors from Michigan State University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and an additional major in political science.[page needed]
He graduated from the Michigan Political Leadership Program Fellowship.[3][5]
Moss is currently a member organizations such as the Greater Southfield/Farmington chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Martin Luther King Task Force, and is a board member of Congregation Beth Ahm in Oakland County.[3]
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Moss worked in the offices of Mayor Brenda Lawrence and state Representative Paul Condino.[4][9] He worked as District Director for state Representative Rudy Hobbs[5] after serving as his campaign manager.[9]
In November 2011, at age 25,[9] he placed first among eight candidates to be elected to serve as the youngest-ever elected official in Southfield.[3][5] He served as chairman of the council's Legislative and Urban Affairs Committee, and as a member of the Boards and Commission and Neighborhood Services committees. In 2013, Moss successfully advocated for the creation of a new Economic Development Committee.[5]
He was elected to serve the 35th District in the Michigan House of Representatives in November 2014.[10] He became the second openly gay member elected to the Michigan legislature.[5]
In his first term in the Michigan House of Representatives, he served as minority vice chairman of the House Local Government Committee and sat on the House Commerce and Trade and House Regulatory Reform committees.[3][11]
Moss was re-elected in 2016. He was selected by his colleagues to serve as the House Democratic Whip. In his second term, he served as minority vice chairman of the House Regulatory Reform Committee and sat on the House Elections and Ethics Committee, House Local Government Committee, and the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules.[3]
In 2018, Moss was elected to represent the 11th Michigan Senate District and was the Assistant Democratic Leader. Moss started his second term in the Michigan Senate in 2023, representing district 7.[12]
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In 2014, he defeated Nicole Brown, Darryle Buchanan and Charles Roddis in the Democratic primary for the 35th District of the Michigan House of Representatives on August 5, 2014. He then went on to defeat Republican Party candidate Robert Brim in the general election on November 4, 2014.[10][11] He defeated Brim in a rematch in 2016.
In 2018, Moss defeated Crystal Bailey, Vanessa Moss, and James Turner in the Democratic primary for the 11th State Senate district.[13] He went on to defeat Republican Boris Tuman and Libertarian James Young in the general election.[14]
Following the 2022 redistricting, Moss successfully ran for re-election in the newly-drawn 7th Michigan Senate District and served as the Michigan Senate Democratic campaign co-chair as the caucus won its first majority in 40 years.[15]
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