Patrick J. Hillings

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Patrick J. Hillings

Patrick Jerome Hillings (born February 19, 1923 in Hobart Mills , Nevada County , California , †  July 20, 1994 in Palm Desert , California) was an American politician . Between 1951 and 1959 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Patrick Hillings attended the public schools in his home country. He then studied until March 1943 at the University of Southern California . During the Second World War he was used as a sergeant in a communications unit in the South Pacific . After the war he continued his education at the University of Southern California, where he studied law until 1949. After his admission as a lawyer in the same year, he began to work in Arcadia in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1952 and 1964 he was a delegate to all Republican National Conventions .

In the congressional elections of 1950 Hillings was elected in the twelfth constituency of California in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded the future US President Richard Nixon on January 3, 1951 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four terms in Congress by January 3, 1959 . Since 1953 he represented the then newly established 25th district of his state. During his time as a congressman, the Korean War and the beginning of the civil rights movement took place .

In 1958, Patrick Hillings declined to run again for Congress. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to be elected Attorney General of California. After his time in the US House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1960 and 1961 he was party chairman for the Republicans in Los Angeles County . In the presidential campaign of 1979/80 he led the campaign of Ronald Reagan in Florida . Patrick Hillings spent his old age in Los Angeles and died on July 20, 1994 in Palm Desert.

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