Jerry L. Pettis

A Representative from California. Born in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. , July 18, 1916. Received elementary and secondary education in Arizona and California. Graduated from Pacific Union College, Angwin, Calif. , in 1938. Engaged in graduate work at the University of Southern California and the University of Denver in 1939-1941. Founder of Magnetic Tape Duplicators of Los Angeles. Founder of Audio-Digest Foundation, a subsidiary of California Medical Association. Founder of a consultant firm for radio, television, and the motion picture industry. Flight instructor, search and rescue pilot, Colorado Wing CAP. As pilot with Air Transport Command, Pacific Theater, 1941-1946. Professor of economics. Vice president for development and chairman of the Board of Councilors, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, Calif. , 1948-1961. Special assistant to the president of United Air Lines, Chicago, Ill. Ranch owner in Pauma Valley, Calif. Elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth Congress. Reelected to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1967, until his death February 14, 1975, in a private aircraft crash in Banning, Calif. Interment in Montecito Memorial Park, San Bernardino, Calif.