U.S. Congressman. Moving with his parents to California in 1912, he graduated from the University of California in 1930, from the University of California Law School in 1936, was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Bakersfield, California. He was a member of the California State Assembly (1943, 45). In 1949, he was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses, serving until 1953. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection, he resumed the practice of law and served as a campaign adviser for the presidential elections to Richard Nixon in 1960 and Barry Goldwater in 1964.
U.S. Congressman. Moving with his parents to California in 1912, he graduated from the University of California in 1930, from the University of California Law School in 1936, was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Bakersfield, California. He was a member of the California State Assembly (1943, 45). In 1949, he was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses, serving until 1953. An unsuccessful candidate for reelection, he resumed the practice of law and served as a campaign adviser for the presidential elections to Richard Nixon in 1960 and Barry Goldwater in 1964.
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
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