Harold Gene Moss (October 1, 1929 – September 21, 2020)[1] was an American politician and businessman who was the 34th mayor of Tacoma, Washington.

Moss attended the Lewis College of Business before arriving in Tacoma during the Korean War as a member of the United States National Guard.

[7] He first became politically active in the 1950s as a member of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

He served two terms as branch president, served on Tacoma's first Human Relations Commission (later Human Rights Commission), and in 1968, Moss helped create the Tacoma Urban League[3][8] and played a key role in securing public funding for its Urban Services Center.

[3][11] In January 1994, Tacoma mayor Jack Hyde suffered a fatal heart attack nearly at the start of his term.