A Representative from California; born in Hawthorne, Los Angeles County, Calif., February 21, 1913; B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., 1936; real estate developer; United States Army; mayor of Hawthorne, Calif., 1940-1942; member of the California state assembly, 1942-1948; Lieutenant Governor of California, 1959-1967; chairman and member, State Lands Commission, Calif., 1959-1967; member, Board of Trustees of California state colleges, 1961-1967; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-first and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1993); chair, Committee on Public Works and Transportation (One Hundredth through One Hundred First Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992; died on December 13, 1994, in Los Angeles, Calif.; interment in Green Hills Cemetery, Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.
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