Mark W. Hannaford

Mark W. Hannaford (1975)

Mark Warren Hannaford (born February 7, 1925 in Woodrow , Lincoln County , Colorado , †  June 2, 1985 in Lakewood , California ) was an American politician . Between 1975 and 1979 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Mark Hannaford attended the public schools in Anderson ( Indiana ). During the Second World War he served in the US Army Air Corps between 1943 and 1946 . After the war he studied first until 1950 and then again after an interruption until 1956 at Ball State University in Muncie . In 1961 and 1962 he was still studying at Yale University . From 1966 to 1975 he taught political science at Long Beach City College in California. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . From 1966 to 1974 he was a local councilor in Lakewood; in this city he was mayor from 1968 to 1970 and from 1972 to 1974. Between 1966 and 1974, Hannaford was also a member of his party's state executive. In August 1968 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where Hubert H. Humphrey was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1974 congressional election , Hannaford was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 34th  constituency of California , where he succeeded Richard T. Hanna on January 3, 1975 . After re-election, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1979 . In 1978 he was defeated by Republican Dan Lungren ; two years later he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for his return to Congress. After that, Hannaford did not appear politically. He died on June 2, 1985 in Lakewood.

Web links

• Mark W. Hannaford in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Mark W. Hannaford in the database of Find a Grave (English)