Jim Moody
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 5th district |
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In office January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Henry S. Reuss |
| Succeeded by | Tom Barrett |
| Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly | |
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In office 1977-1978 |
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| Member of the Wisconsin Senate | |
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In office 1979-1982 |
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September 2, 1935 Richlands, Virginia |
| Political party | Democratic |
James Powers "Jim" Moody (born September 2, 1935) is an American economist, and former Democratic member of the U.S. Congress. Moody represented Milwaukee, Wisconsin in Congress from 1983 to 1993.
Moody was born in Richlands, Virginia, son of James P. Moody and Jane Johnson Moody. He graduated from Anglo American High School in Athens, Greece in 1953 and earned his BA from Haverford College in 1957. After two years of financial work on Wall Street, he became the CARE representative in Yugoslavia. After two years in Yugoslavia, he was assigned by CARE to Iran to lead a special feeding program assisting hospitals and schools and direct periodic earthquake relief.
During the early Peace Corps period he set up the agency's first programs in Pakistan and Bangladesh—the first two Peace Corps programs in Continental Asia. His responsibilities included negotiating the country-PC agreements and matching volunteers with their assignments.
He returned to Washington, DC for the next year as Pak desk officer, then became the loan officer for the USAID capital development program for Southeast Asia. After two years at USAID he earned an MPA at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He then earned a Ph.D. in economics at the University of California, Berkeley, after which he was employed as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He also taught occasional courses at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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