Carlos Moorhead

Carlos John Moorhead ( born May 6, 1922 in Long Beach, California, † November 23, 2011 in La Cañada Flintridge, California ) was an American politician. Between 1973 and 1997 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Carlos Moorhead attended the public schools in Glendale. Then he studied until 1943 at the University of California at Los Angeles. During the Second World War he served until 1945 in the U.S. Army, where he rose to lieutenant colonel. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Southern California and his 1949 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Glendale in this profession. In 1973 he was admitted in this capacity also in the Supreme Court of the United States. Moorhead was also a member of the Commission on the revision of the California State laws. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. Between 1967 and 1972 he sat as a deputy in the California State Assembly.

In the congressional elections of 1972 Moorhead was in the 20th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of H. Allen Smith on January 3, 1973. After eleven re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1997 twelve legislatures. Between 1975 and 1993 he represented there the 22th and then the 27th district of his state. At the very beginning of his time as a congressman 's political life in the United States was overshadowed by the Watergate affair. From 1995 to 1997 Moorhead was chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

In 1996 he gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives withdrew Carlos Moorhead from politics. He suffered from Alzheimer 's disease and died on 23 November 2011.