Ronald B. Cameron

Ronald B. Cameron

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

Career

Ronald Cameron visited to 1945, the Western Reserve High School in Hudson ( Ohio ). He served in the Marine Corps in 1945 and 1946 . He then graduated from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1947 . This was followed by studies at the University of California in Los Angeles until 1953 . Cameron has been a sworn accountant since 1954. After completing a law degree at the Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu , he was admitted to the bar in 1973. He also embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1958 and 1962 he was a member of the California State Assembly . In 1960 and 1964 he was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions , at which John F. Kennedy and later Lyndon B. Johnson were nominated as presidential candidates.

In the 1962 congressional election , Cameron was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 25th  constituency of California , where he succeeded John H. Rousselot on January 3, 1963 . After re-election, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1967 . These were shaped by the events of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War .

In 1966, Ronald Cameron was defeated by Republican Charles E. Wiggins . After his time in the US House of Representatives, he returned to work as an auditor and attorney. In 1970 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of State Comptroller of California. He died in Whittier on February 1, 2006.

Web links

• Ronald B. Cameron in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ronald B. Cameron in the database of Find a Grave (English)