Mickey Leland

A Representative from Texas. Born in Lubbock, Lubbock County, Tex. , November 27, 1944. Attended the Harris County public schools. Graduated from Phillis Wheatly Senior High School, Houston, 1963. B. S. , Texas Southern University, Houston, 1970. Senior vice president, King State Bank, 1977. Director, special development projects, Hermann Hospital, 1977. Texas State representative, District 88, 1972-1979. Delegate, Texas Constitutional convention, 1974. Elected to Democratic National Committee, 1976. Delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1972. Elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1979, until his death August 7, 1989, in an aircraft crash near Gambela, Ethiopia while en route to a United Nations refugee camp near the Sudan-Ethiopia border. Chairman, Select Committee on Hunger (Ninety-eighth through One Hundred First Congresses).