Biography
Representative from California; born in Gilroy, Santa Clara County, Calif., February 1, 1916; attended the public schools; graduated from San Jose State Junior College in 1934, the University of California in 1937, and then took two years of graduate work; taught in Gilroy Union High School 1939-1943; engaged in farming since 1940; member of the State assembly in 1951 and 1952; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third Congress; reelected to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1953, until his resignation December 31, 1974; was not a candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; died on August 20, 2011, in Fresno, Calif.; interment at Gavilan Hills Memorial Park, Gilroy, Calif.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress