John Ohleyer Moseley

John Ohleyer Moseley (October 21, 1893 – October 10, 1955) was an American academic administrator and scholar. He was the president of Central State College from 1935 to 1939, and the University of Nevada, Reno from 1944 to 1949. He was also the president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in the 1930s.

Early life and education John Ohleyer Moseley was born on October 21, 1893, in Meridian, Mississippi. His father, John W. Moseley Jr., was a Presbyterian minister in Oklahoma for 30 years and originally from Richmond, Virginia. His mother, Sophie Ohleyer, was from Brandon, Mississippi. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Jurisprudence from Merton College, Oxford in 1922 and a Master of Arts degree in 1928.

He completed his legal studies at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. He was a Fellow of the American Philological Association and the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. He gave the graduation address at his alma mater, Austin College, in 1936. He served as the president of the Oklahoma State Council on Christian Education in 1939.

He served as the seventh president of the University of Nevada, Reno from 1944 to 1949. He was inaugurated on October 12, 1944, replacing Leon W. Hartman. Moreover, he admitted that World War II veterans who attended the university thanks to the G.I. Bill were discouraged from attending the university not because of low grades, but because they struggled to find housing on campus. Moseley resigned in 1949. After he resigned from the presidency of the University of Nevada, Reno, he was the Executive Secretary of SAE in Evanston, Illinois. His obituary, written by George C. McGhee, was published in the American Oxonian.