Jerry Voorhis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Congressman
Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1901
Place of Birth: Ottawa, Kansas, United States
Date of Death: 11-Sep-1984
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Jerry Voorhis
- Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis (April 6, 1901 – September 11, 1984) was a Democratic politician from California.
- He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947, representing 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 an example of Nixon's use of red-baiting during his political rise. Voorhis was born in Kansas, but the family relocated frequently in his childhood.
- He earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University (where he was elected to the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa) and a master's degree in education from Claremont Graduate School.
- In 1928, he founded the Voorhis School for Boys and became its headmaster.
- He retained the post into his congressional career. In the House of Representatives, Voorhis was a loyal supporter of the New Deal and compiled a liberal voting record.
- His major legislative achievement was the Voorhis Act of 1940 requiring registration of certain organizations controlled by foreign powers.
- After being re-elected by comfortable margins four times, he faced Nixon in 1946 in a bitter campaign in which Voorhis' supposed endorsement by groups linked to the Communist Party was made into a major issue.
- Nixon won the Republican-leaning district by over 15,000 votes and Voorhis refused to run against Nixon in 1948. During a writing career spanning a half-century, Voorhis penned several books.
- Following his defeat by Nixon, he retired from politics and worked for almost twenty years as an executive in the cooperative movement.
- He died in a California retirement home in 1984 at the age of 83.
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