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1959-01-01 |
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| Name | C. Norris Poulson |
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Los Angeles, California , United States |
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July 23, 1895
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| Died | September 25, 1982
(87 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | BrentinCO
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| Info | Charles Norris Poulson
POULSON, C. Norris, a Representative from California; born and reared on a ranch near Haines, Baker County, Oreg., July 23, 1895; attended the public schools, Oregon State College at Corvallis, and Southwestern University, Los Angeles, Calif., 1923-1925; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1923; became a certified public accountant in 1933; member of the California assembly 1938-1942; delegate to California State Republican conventions on seven occasions; delegate to Republican National Convention, 1956; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1945); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; elected in 1946 to the Eightieth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1947, until his resignation on June 11, 1953; elected mayor of Los Angeles, Calif., in 1953 and again in 1957 and served from June 1953 to June 1961; unsuccessful for reelection as mayor in 1961; California State Water Commissioner, June 1963 to April 1969; resided in Tustin, Calif., until his death in Orange, Calif., on September 25, 1982; cremated; ashes buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Baker, Oreg.
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