Ron Dellums

Ronald Vernie "Ron" Dellums (* November 24, 1935 in Oakland, California) is an American politician. Between 1971 and 1998 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives; later he became mayor of his hometown of Oakland.

Career

Ron Dellums attended the common schools and later to 1958, the Oakland City College, and until 1960, the San Francisco State College. This was followed up in 1962 to study at the University of California at Berkeley. Even before he was between 1954-1956 soldier in the Marine Corps. From 1962 to 1964 he was a social worker in the psychiatric service of the Ministry of Health of California. In the years 1964 and 1965, he served as program director of the Bayview Community Center. In the following years Dellums worked in various positions in social projects of his homeland. He also lectured at several universities. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. From 1967 to 1970 he sat on the city council of Berkeley. In July 1972 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, was nominated for the George McGovern as its presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1970 Dellums in the seventh constituency of California was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jeffery Cohelan on January 3, 1971. After 13 Re-elections he could until his resignation on 6 February 1998 in Congress remain Since 1975 he represented there as a successor to Pete Stark the eighth district of his state. In his time as a congressman fell among other things, the end of the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and the end of the civil rights movement. From 1993 to 1995 Dellums was chairman of the Armed Services Committee. In the meantime, he also chaired the Committee for management of the Federal District District of Columbia. He was also temporarily a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Postal Committee and the Intelligence Committee. Dellums ' name can be found on the "enemies list " by President Richard Nixon. He was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and at times its chairman. 2000 Dellums received the Thomas Merton Award.

After his time in Congress, Ron Dellums operated as a lobbyist. Between 2007 and 2011 he was a successor to Mayor Jerry Brown of Oakland; to a possible second term, he not applied. To his successor Jean Quan was elected. Dellums is married for the second time and has five children.