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Moose was born in Morrilton, Arkansas in 1903.
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James Sayle Moose
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After studying at the Kentucky Military Institute, graduating in 1922 from the University of Missouri, and returning to his hometown for a period of five years, he joined the Foreign Service in 1928. His diplomatic work would span the globe, though focused on the Middle East. Thessaloniki, Greece was given to him as a debut assignment, where he served as vice consul.
Soon afterward he went to Paris, where he studied Arabic, Amharic, French, and Turkish at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, but by 1933 he was back in the Middle East with a posting in Baghdad.
In 1942, Moose became the second accredited United States. representative to Saudi Arabia (following Bert Fish) as chargé d"affaires, but the first to officially reside in Jeddah, where he opened the American legation on May 1, 1942. In 1958, after Moose sanctioned a Central Intelligence Agency coup to overthrow the government in Syria, the Syrians demanded his recall.
President Eisenhower replaced him.
