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Robert C. Moot

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ30823937 ↗
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Robert C. Moot (June 1, 1911 – May 31, 2002) was an American administrator who served as Administrator of the Small Business Administration from 1967 to 1968.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911, 2002, 1967, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1911-06-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Robert, Moot and Open-knowledge providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30823937. VIAF identifies the subject as 7357151837997520520008. The Library of Congress control number is no2018015898. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1911, 2002, 1967 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert C. Moot” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.