Ronald B. Cameron

Ronald Brooks Cameron ( born August 16, 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri; † 1 February 2006 in Whittier, California ) was an American politician. Between 1963 and 1967 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ronald Cameron attended until 1945, the Western Reserve High School in Hudson (Ohio ). Between 1945 and 1946 he served in the Marine Corps. After he graduated in 1947, the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. This was followed up in 1953 to study at the University of California at Los Angeles. Since 1954, Cameron worked as a chartered accountant. After a subsequent law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, he was admitted to the bar in 1973. He also proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1958 and 1962 he sat as a deputy in the California State Assembly. In the years 1960 and 1964 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant, on which John F. Kennedy and later Lyndon B. Johnson was nominated as the presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1962, Cameron was in the 25th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John H. Rousselot on January 3, 1963. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1967 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War.

1966 Ronald Cameron defeated Republican Charles E. Wiggins. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he worked again as a accountant and lawyer. In 1970 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of State Auditor ( State Comptroller ) of California. He died on 1 February 2006 in Whittier.

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