Dan Lungren
Daniel Edward " Dan " Lungren ( born September 22, 1946 in Long Beach, California) is an American politician of the Republican Party, former Attorney General of California and 1979-1989 and 2005-2013 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives for California.
Biography
Lungren is one of the sons of John C. Lungren, Sr., the personal physician of President Richard Nixon. He studied after attending St. Anthony High School in Long Beach 1964-1968 English at the University of Notre Dame, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA English). A subsequent post-graduate studies in law at the University of Southern California and Georgetown University, he finished in 1971 with a Juris Doctor ( JD). After qualifying in 1972, he worked in the meantime and also activities, a member of the Republican senators from California, George Murphy, and Tennessee, Bill Brock as a lawyer.
His political career began in 1974 to 1979 as a delegate at the Republican Convention in California to nominate the Republican candidate for governor, and from 1977 to 1978 as a Co - Chairman of the Congressional National Council. In 1978 he was first elected as an MP in the U.S. House of Representatives and represented there between January 1979 and January 3, 1989 3 first the 34th and then since 3 January 1983 to 42 Congressional District of California.
He renounced in 1988 on a renewed candidacy and was elected in 1990 to the Attorney General of California. After his confirmation in 1994 he had held this position during the tenure of Governor Pete Wilson from 1991 to 1999. In 1998, he applied himself as a Republican candidate for the office of governor of California, but lost it to his Democratic opponent, the former Lieutenant Governor Gray Davis, clearly with 38.4 to 58 percent of the vote.
In 2004 he was again elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and represented there by three re- elections since January 3, 2005 the 3rd Congressional District of California. Until January 3, 2013 Lungren was not only wrestled tallest member ( Ranking Minority Member) and thus spokesman for the Republican minority group in the Committee for the Administration of the House of Representatives (U.S. House Committee on House Administration), but also a member of the Committees on Homeland Security (U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security ) and Justice ( U.S. House Committee on the judiciary ) and the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress (U.S. Congress joint Committee on the Library ).
In 2012, Dan Lungren ran in the seventh election district of his state for his re-election. He was defeated by Ami Bera.