Robert J. Lagomarsino

John Robert Lagomarsino ( born September 4, 1926 in Ventura, California ) is a former American politician. Between 1974 and 1993 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Lagomarsino attended the public schools of his home. During the Second World War, he served 1944-1946 in the U.S. Navy. Then he studied until 1950 at the University of California at Santa Barbara. After a subsequent law degree from the same university in 1954 and was admitted to his lawyer, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1958 he became councilor in Ojai; 1958 to 1961 he was mayor of this place. From 1961 to 1974 Lagomarsino was a member of the Senate of California. He was also from 1961 to 1974 a delegate to the regional party days of the Republicans in California.

After the death of Mr Charles M. Teague Lagomarsino was at the due election for the 13 seats of California as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 5 March 1974. After nine elections he could remain until January 3, 1993 at the Congress. Since 1975 he represented there as a successor of Chester E. Holifield the 19th electoral district of his state. At the very beginning of his time in Congress, political life was shattered by the Watergate affair. Lagomarsino was temporarily a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. In 1992, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Robert Lagomarsino remained politically active at the local level. He has, however, no longer clothed Higher Offices. End of his life he spent in Ventura.