James S. Moose Jr.

James Sayle Moose Jr. (October 3, 1903 – January 19, 1989) was an American diplomat and ambassador to several countries.

Moose was born in Morrilton, Arkansas in 1903. After studying at the Kentucky Military Institute and graduating in 1922 from the University of Missouri at 18, he married Eleanor Duncan Wood of Maysville, Kentucky also in 1922. He then moved to Little Rock Arkansas and then to his hometown for a period of five years. In 1928 he joined the Foreign Service.

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. Four years later he was posted in Tehran, where he had his first child, James S. Moose, III. In 1942 he had his second child, Eleanor Duncan Wood Moose (Lady Whittome).

In 1943, Moose became the second accredited U.S. 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, 1943. He served until mid-1944 although he remained involved in Saudi-American relations until later in 1945 including helping arrange the meeting between the King of Saudi Arabia, Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Gulf of Suez in 1945.

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