[Congressman Carlos Moorhead collection with Watergate and impeachment material]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09613 Author/Creator: Place Written: Type: Header Record Date: 1972 Pagination: 1 banker box of materials. Order a Copy
Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead archive, includes correspondence and printed matters relating to the Watergate break-in, impeachment hearings, and resignation of Richard Nixon. Additional letters from President Ronald Reagan and photographs of Washington officials.
Carlos J. Moorhead was born on May 5, 1922 in Long Beach, Calif. He graduated from Hoover High in Glendale (1940), UCLA (1943) and, after serving in WWII, USC Law School. He became the Representative for the Forty-third Assembly District of California from 1966 until 1972. During his tenure, Moorhead was vice chair of the Natural Resources, Planning and Public Works Committee, and a member of the California Law Revision Commission. Moorhead left the Assembly after being elected in 1972 to the U.S. House of Representatives. Upon beginning his term in the House in 1973, Moorhead served on the Judiciary Committee during the impeachment hearings of President Nixon. He served as Vice Chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee and of the Sub- Committee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration. He also was Republican dean of the California congressional delegation and was appointed to serve on the Federal Court Study Commission by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. Moorhead was a founding member of the California Institute for Federal Policy, a think tank formed to help inform California's congressional members.
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