Ron Dellums, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ron Dellums

United States Marine

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1935

Place of Birth: Oakland, California, United States

Date of Death: 30-Jul-2018

Profession: teacher, politician, bureaucrat, program director, Psychiatric Social Worker, lobbyist, consultant

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Ron Dellums

  • Ronald Vernie Dellums (November 24, 1935 – July 30, 2018) was an American politician who served as Mayor of Oakland from 2007 to 2011.
  • He had previously served thirteen terms as a Member of the U.S.
  • House of Representatives from California's 9th Congressional District, in office from 1971 to 1998, 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.
  • He was the first African American elected to Congress from Northern California and the first successful openly socialist non-incumbent Congressional candidate after 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's 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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