Jonathan Moore was born in New York City on September 10, 1932. He was educated at
Dartmouth College, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1954 and at
Harvard University, receiving an
MPA in 1957. In 1957, Moore joined the
United States Information Agency; he was posted in
Bombay and later
Monrovia. In 1959, he became an assistant to the
minority leadership in the
United States Senate. He then served as legislative assistant to Senator
Leverett Saltonstall (
R–
Mass.) from 1959 to 1961. In 1961, he joined the
United States Department of Defense's Office of International Security Affairs, serving there until 1964, for a time as special assistant to the
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. He was special assistant to the
Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs from 1964 to 1966. He then spent 1967 to 1968 as foreign affairs adviser on the national campaign staff of
Governor of Michigan George W. Romney during the
1968 Republican presidential primaries. After Romney's elimination from the race, he became a foreign policy adviser on the national campaign staff of
Governor of New York Nelson Rockefeller. He was briefly executive assistant to the
Under Secretary of State in early 1969. From 1969 to 1970, Moore served as Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1969–70). He was then Counselor to the
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1970 to 1972. In 1973, he was a special assistant to the
Secretary and
Deputy Secretary of Defense (1973). From June to November 1973, he was
United States Associate Attorney General. Moore then joined academia, becoming Director of the
Harvard Institute of Politics and a lecturer in Public Policy at the
John F. Kennedy School of Government, holding this position from 1974 to 1986. In addition to his teaching duties, Moore served as a member of the advisory committee of the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (1974–76); a consultant to the President's committee on the
Three Mile Island accident (1979); a member of the
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare's ad hoc group on the future strategy of the
Department of Health and Human Services (1980); a member of the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission (1982–85); and a member of the
United States Secretary of State's panel on Indochinese refugees (1985–86). In October 1984, he was a consultant to the
United States Agency for International Development in a field assessment of the U.S. economic assistance program for the
Philippines. Mr. Moore was sworn in as U.S. Coordinator and
Ambassador at Large for Refugee Affairs on September 12, 1986, and was appointed
Director of the Bureau of Refugee Programs on March 5, 1987. From 1989 to 1992, he served as United States Representative to the
United Nations Economic and Social Council. He returned to the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1992, becoming an associate of the
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. He died on 8 March 2017 at the age of 84. ==References==