Barry Goldwater Junior

Barry Goldwater

Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. (born July 15, 1938 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American politician . Between 1969 and 1983 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Barry Goldwater is the son of US Senator Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) from Arizona , who ran unsuccessfully against incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 presidential election. The younger Goldwater graduated from the Staunton Military Academy in Virginia and then studied at the University of Colorado and until 1962 at Arizona State University . In the following years he worked, among other things, as a stockbroker and in the export and import business. Politically, he joined the Republican Party like his father .

After the resignation of MP Edwin Reinecke , Goldwater was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the by-election due for the 27th seat of California , where he took up his new mandate on April 29, 1969. After six re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1983 . During this time, the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War ended, as well as the Watergate affair in 1974 , which seriously damaged the Republicans. Goldwater was intermittently a member of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation , the Energy Committee, and the Science and Technology Committee. In 1982 he renounced another candidacy. At the same time, he unsuccessfully sought to nominate his party for the US Senate elections .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Goldwater moved to Los Angeles, where he worked in the financial industry. He also became a member of the New York Stock Exchange. Today he lives near his son Barry M. Goldwater III in Phoenix .

Web links

• Barry Goldwater junior in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)