He served as the President of Central State College from 1935 to 1939, and the University of Nevada, Reno from 1944 to 1949.

[1][2][3] His father, John W. Moseley Jr., was a Presbyterian minister in Oklahoma for 30 years and originally from Richmond, Virginia.

[5] His paternal grandfather served as a Presbyterian minister in the South for seventy years.

[4] He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Latin, Greek and English from Austin College in Sherman, Texas in 1912.

[4] As the 1930 recipient of a Royall Victor Fellowship,[3] he spent two summers at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he studied the Law and Latin.

[5] He served as the principal and a professor of education at the Kendall Academy, a precursor to the University of Tulsa.

[1][2] In 1943, at the height of World War II, he suggested East Tennessee probably had "fewer undesirable enemy aliens than any other sections of the United States.

Bill were discouraged from attending the university not because of low grades, but because they struggled to find housing on campus.

[4] He was elected as Eminent Supreme Archon, or president, in 1935, replacing Judge Walter Burgwyn Jones.

[4] That year, he established the annual John O. Moseley School of Leadership to teach SAE values.

[15] After he resigned from the presidency of the University of Nevada, Reno, he was the Executive Secretary of SAE in Evanston, Illinois.