Warner Moss

In 1888, after William & Mary was reorganized, the teaching of government was included in the Department of Moral Science, Political Economy, and Civil Government. President Lyon G. Tyler served as the head of the department. In 1907, government (political science) received a separate listing but it was not until 1920, with the arrival of Professor Robert Kent Gooch, that Government would formally be taught at William & Mary. The Marshall-Wythe School of Government and Citizenship was established in 1922, with Professor John Garland Pollard as dean and professor of government. It is not until 1943 that the Government Department leaves the Marshall-Wythe School of Government and Citizenship and becomes its own department. Warner Moss was the first chair of the Government Department in 1943.