Jerry Voorhis
✓ Source-basedfallingDemocratic politician from California
Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis was an American politician and educator who served five terms in the United States House of Representatives representing California from 1937 to 1947. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the 12th congressional district in Los Angeles County.
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Voorhis's Yale University yearbook photo, 1923
Voorhis Park, Cal Poly Pomona, containing a stone from the Voorhis School campus
Voorhis as a candidate for Congress, 1936
Portrait by Underwood & Underwood, 1940
Representatives Voorhis, Dies, and Casey holding a Communist Party recruitment flag seized in a raid on a Baltimore, Maryland office, March 20, 1940
Voorhis's bill to transfer jurisdiction over rabbits
License plate attachment promoting Voorhis's candidacyPoliticians from United States 6
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Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis was an American politician and educator who served five terms in the United States House of Representatives representing California from 1937 to 1947. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the 12th congressional district in Los Angeles County. He was the first political opponent of Richard M. Nixon, who defeated Voorhis for re-election in 1946 in a campaign cited as the first example of Nixon's use of red-baiting tactics during his political rise.
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