biography
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Unruh, Jesse M(arvin)
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| lived:
| (1922–87)
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| biography:
| Public official, born in Newton, Kansas, USA. A sharecropper's son, he put himself through college on the GI bill, working for a railway freight company afterwards. As a Democratic Californian assemblyman (1951–69), he increased the assembly's power and professionalism, becoming speaker in 1961. A shrewd politician, he managed Pat Brown's and Robert Kennedy's campaigns in California. He became state treasurer in 1974. |
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