Del Clawson

A Representative from California. Born in Thatcher, Graham County, Ariz. , January 11, 1914. Attended the public schools of Pima and Safford, Ariz. Attended Gila College, Thatcher, Ariz. , in 1933 and 1934. Various employment, 1934-1940. Interviewer with the United States Employment Service, 1941. With the Federal Public Housing Authority in Arizona and California, 1942-1947. Manager of the Mutual Housing Association of Compton, Calif. , 1947-1963. Member of the city council of Compton, 1953-1957. Mayor of Compton, 1957-1961 and reelected in 1961 for another four-year term. Director of three Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts 1957-1963. Elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Clyde Doyle, and reelected to the seven succeeding Congresses (June 11, 1963-December 31, 1978). Was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978. Died on May 5, 1992, in Downey, Calif. Interment at Green Hills Memorial Park, Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.