Richard T. Hanna

Richard T. Hanna (1969)

Richard Thomas Hanna (born June 9, 1914 in Kemmerer , Wyoming , †  June 9, 2001 in Tryon , North Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1963 and 1974 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Richard Hanna attended Pasadena Junior College in California. After studying law at the University of California at Los Angeles and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in this profession. During the Second World War , he served in the US Navy Air Corps between 1942 and 1945 . After the war he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1956 and 1962 he was a member of the California State Assembly . In July 1960 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, where John F. Kennedy was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1962 congressional elections , Hanna was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly established 34th  constituency of California , where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1963. After five re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on December 31, 1974 . During this time, the Vietnam War , the Watergate affair and the final phase of the civil rights movement took place .

In the 1970s, Richard Hanna was embroiled in the Koreagate bribery scandal. He received a payment of $ 200,000 from a Korean businessman. After his confession, he was sentenced to a prison term of one year. This process ended his political career. He died in Tryon on June 9, 2001, his 87th birthday.

Web links

• Richard T. Hanna in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Richard T. Hanna in the database of Find a Grave (English)