Barry Goldwater, Jr.

Barry Morris Goldwater, Jr. ( born July 15, 1938 in Los Angeles, California) is an American politician. Between 1969 and 1983 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Barry Goldwater is the son of U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) from Arizona, who unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson in the presidential elections of 1964. The younger Goldwater graduated from Staunton Military Academy in Virginia and studied at the University of Colorado and until 1962 at Arizona State University after that. In the following years he worked as a stockbroker and in import and export business. Politically, he joined his father of the Republican Party.

Following the resignation of Mr Edwin Reinecke Goldwater was at the due election for the 27 seats of California as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on April 29, 1969. After six re- elections he could remain until January 3, 1983 at the Congress. In this time were, among others, the end of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, and in 1974, the Watergate scandal, which seriously hurt the Republicans. Goldwater was at times a member of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, the Energy Committee and the Committee on Science and Technology. In 1982 he gave up another candidacy. At the same time he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Goldwater moved to Los Angeles where he worked in the financial industry. He was also a member of the New York Stock Exchange. Today he lives near his son Barry M. Goldwater III in Phoenix.