George Elmore Danielson (February 20, 1915 – September 12, 1998) was an American
Democratic politician and judge from
California
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. He served in the
United States House of Representatives
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from 1971 to 1982.
Biography
Born in
Wausa, Nebraska
Wausa is a village in Knox County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 634 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Wausa is located at (42.497806, -97.539866).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all l ...
, Danielson attended
Wayne State Teachers College before earning his
B.A. and
J.D. from the
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
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in 1937 and 1939, respectively. He was a special agent with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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from 1939 to 1944 and served in the
United States Navy Reserve
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from 1944 to 1946. He was an
Assistant United States Attorney
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from 1949 to 1951 and thereafter entered private practice.
Danielson was twice elected to the
California State Assembly
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The A ...
, serving from 1963 to 1967, and to the
California State Senate
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, serving from 1967 to 1971. In 1970, he was elected to his first of six terms to the U.S. House of Representatives. He served on the
House Judiciary Committee
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during the
impeachment proceedings against President
Richard Nixon
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and voted in favor of three of the articles. Danielson resigned from Congress on March 9, 1982, after being appointed an associate justice on the
California Court of Appeal in the Second District, Division Three by Governor
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 34th and 39th governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected Secretary of S ...
.
''California Courts: The Judicial Branch of California.'' Retrieved 2018-07-21.
Danielson retired from the bench in April 1992. He died on September 12, 1998, of heart failure in Monterey Park, California.
See also
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References
External links
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Join California George E. Danielson
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1915 births
1998 deaths
People from Knox County, Nebraska
People from Monterey Park, California
Judges of the California Courts of Appeal
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California
Democratic Party California state senators
Democratic Party members of the California State Assembly
United States Navy reservists
United States Navy personnel of World War II
Assistant United States Attorneys
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents
University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni
Wayne State College alumni
20th-century American judges
20th-century American politicians
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
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