John V. Tunney
John Varick Tunney ( born June 26, 1934 in New York City, New York) is an American politician who represented the state of California in both chambers of Congress.
Biography
Early life
John Tunney was born the second oldest of four children of the boxing world champion Gene Tunney (1897-1978) and his wife Polly in New York. He has one older and two younger brothers and a younger sister.
He graduated in 1956 from Yale University and attended for one year until 1957, the Hague Academy of International Law in The Hague, Netherlands. 1959 Tunney made his law degree at the University of Virginia and began practicing law then in New York. Here he shared with Edward Kennedy a room, the younger brother of future U.S. President John F. Kennedy and later U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
Political career
The early 1960s, Tunney undertook for the United States Air Force ( USAF) and served as a judicial advisor until he was dismissed in April 1963 at the rank of captain. Parallel to his service with the USAF, he taught 1961-1962 Commercial Law at the University of California at Riverside. Opened in 1963 Tunney a law firm in California and was a member of the Democratic Party.
About his friendship with Ed Kennedy Tunney in 1963 under President Kennedy a member of the Committee for the criminal and juvenile delinquency, a function he held until 1968, under President Lyndon B. Johnson, retained. In 1964 Tunney ran successfully for California for a seat in the House of Representatives of the United States and served from January 3, 1965 until his resignation on 2 January 1971.
On the same day Tunney was also sworn in as U.S. Senator for California, and also officiated for six years, until 1 January 1977. During his tenure, he produced a weekly radio program in the other congressmen and senators took the floor. The re-election attempt in 1976 was unsuccessful.
Tunney returned to Los Angeles and continue practicing as a lawyer. He now lives in Beverly Hills.
Author
1975 Tunney wrote the 120 -page work The Changing Dream, whose subtitle The Truth About the Material and Energy Crisis and What We Must Do to Resolve It was. Trigger and event was obviously the oil crisis in the early 1970s.
Others
John Tunney in 1972 was the inspiration for the title role in Bill McKay - The candidate who was portrayed by Robert Redford.