Bob Wilson (U.S. politician)

Robert Carlton "Bob" Wilson ( born April 5, 1916 in Calexico, California, † August 12, 1999 in Chula Vista, California ) was an American politician. Between 1953 and 1981 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bob Wilson attended the public schools of his native California and then San Diego State College and the Otis Art Institute. During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Army. He was active within the United States in the food supply as Commissary. After that he belonged to a lieutenant colonel in the reserve of the Marine Corps. In San Diego, he was also a partner of two advertising agencies. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1952, he supported the presidential campaign of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. From 1962 to 1966 he was chairman of the Republican congressional campaign committees.

In the congressional elections of 1952, Wilson was in the then newly established 30th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1953. After 13 re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1981 was 14 legislative periods. From 1963 to 1973 he represented the 36th in 1973 to 1975 the 40th and then the 41st district of his state. In his time as a congressman fell among other things, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and the Watergate scandal. Since 1959, Wilson was sitting in the Armed Services Committee. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament and supporters of the military and the defense industry.

In 1980 he gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Bob Wilson was Chairman of the Organising Team and Washington Industrial Air-Space America. He died on 12 August 1999 in Chula Vista and was buried in San Diego.