Bernice F. Sisk

Bernice Frederic Sisk ( born December 14, 1910 in Montague, Montague County, Texas, † October 25, 1995 in Fresno, California ) was an American politician. Between 1955 and 1979 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

At the age of six years, Bernice Sisk came to the Donley County, where he attended the public schools. Between 1929 and 1931, he graduated from Abilene Christian College. After that, he helped his father in the management of the cotton plantation. In 1937 he moved to the San Joaquin Valley in California, where he worked in a food factory until 1941. During the Second World War he was a civilian flight coordinator on a training airfield in Visalia. Between 1945 and 1954 Sisk was employed at the company LeMoss -Smith Tire Co. in Fresno. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1954 Sisk was in the twelfth electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Allan O. Hunter on January 3, 1955. After eleven re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1979 twelve legislatures. Between 1963 and 1975 he represented there on the 16th and then the 15th district of his state. Sisk was temporarily a member of the Agriculture Committee and the Rules Committee. During his time in Congress, among others, were the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.

1978 Sisk waived on a bid again. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he retired from politics. He died on 25 October 1995 in Fresno.