A Representative from California; born in Wausa, Knox County, Nebr., February 20, 1915; attended the Wausa public schools, and Wayne State Teachers College, Wayne, Nebr., 1933-1935; B.A., University of Nebraska, 1937; J.D.,University of Nebraska, 1939; special agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1939-1944; United States Naval Reserve,1944-1946; lawyer, private practice; assistant United States attorney, 1949-1951; member of the California state assembly, 1963-1967; member of the California state senate, 1967-1971; delegate to California state Democratic conventions, 1960-1974; delegate to Democratic National Convention, 1968; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1971-March 9, 1982); resigned on March 9, 1982, to be an associate justice of the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Three, Los Angeles, Calif.; died September 12, 1998, in Monterey Park, Calif.
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