Robert L. Leggett

Robert Louis Leggett ( born July 26, 1926 in Richmond, California, † August 13, 1997 in Orange, California ) was an American politician. Between 1963 and 1979 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Leggett attended the public schools of his home. In the final phase of the Second World War, he served 1944-1946 in the Air Corps of the U.S. Navy. Then he studied until 1947 at the University of California at Berkeley. After a subsequent law degree from the Boalt Hall School of Jurisprudence at Berkeley and his 1951 was admitted to the bar he began in Vallejo to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party a political career. In the years 1960 and 1962, Leggett was a deputy in the California State Assembly.

In the congressional elections of 1962, Leggett was in the fourth electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William S. Mailliard on January 3, 1963. After seven elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1979 eight legislatures. In this time were, among others, the culmination of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. 1978 renounced Robert Leggett on a new Congress candidacy. In the following years, he retired from politics. He died on 13 August 1997 in Orange.