Graduated from Baylor University and served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
In 1988, Moss was appointed by then President Bush as Chairman of the President's Drug Advisory Council (within the Executive Branch) tasked with 'organizing and advising the President on enlisting the country's private sector in a war on drugs'.
Texan rancher and oil executive who dabbled in films as occasional actor and producer. He set up the Petroleum Corporation of America with J. Howard Marshall of Houston in 1968.