Charles H. Wilson

A Representative from California. Born in Magna, Salt Lake County, Utah, February 15, 1917. With his parents, moved to Los Angeles, Calif. , in 1922 and attended the public schools there and in Inglewood. Employee of a bank, 1935-1942. Staff sergeant, United States Army, June 1942 to December 1945, with overseas service in the European Theater of Operations. In 1945, established an insurance agency in Los Angeles, Calif. Served in the California state legislature, 1954-1962, as assemblyman from the Sixty-sixth Assembly District. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1981). Reprimanded by the U. S. House of Representatives on October 13, 1978, for making a false statement to the Ethics Committee investigating the Korean influence matter. Censured by the U. S. House of Representatives on June 10, 1980, for financial misconduct and payroll fraud. Unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the Ninety-seventh Congress in 1980. Was a resident of Tantallon, Md. , until his death in Clinton, Md. , on July 21, 1984. Interment in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif.