Mervyn Dymally, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Mervyn Dymally

American politician

Date of Birth: 12-May-1926

Date of Death: 07-Oct-2012

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States, India

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Mervyn Malcolm Dymally (May 12, 1926 – October 7, 2012) was a Democratic politician from California.
He served in the California State Assembly (1963–66) and the California State Senate (1967–75) as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (1975–79) and in the U.S.
House of Representatives (1981–93).
Dymally returned to politics a decade later to serve in the California State Assembly (2003–08).Dymally was the first Trinidadian to serve California as State Senator and Lieutenant Governor.
He was one of the first persons of African and Indian origin to serve in the U.S.
Congress. In 1974, he and George L.
Brown became the first two blacks elected to statewide office since Oscar Dunn did so during Reconstruction.Dymally was the second African-American to hold statewide office in California, following Wilson Riles who served as California Superintendent of Public Instruction starting in 1971.