Ron Dellums
U.S. Congressperson
1935 –
Who is Ron Dellums?
Ronald Vernie "Ron" Dellums served as Oakland's forty-fifth mayor. From 1971 to 1998, he was elected to thirteen terms as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Northern California's 9th Congressional District, after which he worked as a lobbyist in Washington D.C..
Dellums was born into a family of labor organizers, and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps before serving on the Berkeley, California, City Council. Dellums was the first African American elected to Congress from Northern California and the first openly Socialist successful non-incumbent Congressional candidate since World War II. His politics earned him a place on President Nixon's enemies list.
During his career in Congress, he fought the MX Missile project and opposed expansion of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber program. When President Ronald Reagan vetoed Dellums' Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, a Democratic-controlled House and a Republican-controlled Senate overrode Reagan's veto, the first override of a presidential foreign policy veto in the 20th century.
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- Born
- Nov 24, 1935
Oakland - Also known as
- Ronald Vernie Dellums
- Ronald Vernie "Ron" Dellums
- Ron
- Ronald V. Dellums
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Athurine Dellums
- Leola Roscoe Higgs
(1962 - 1999) - Cynthia Lewis
(2000 - )
- Children
- Religion
- Southern Baptist Convention
- Baptists
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- San Francisco State University
- Lived in
- Berkeley
- Oakland
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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