Robert Condon

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Robert Likens Condon (November 10, 1912 – June 3, 1976) was a U.S. Representative from California from 1953 to 1955. During World War II he served in the United States Army.[1]

Career

Born in Berkeley, California, Condon attended the public schools. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1934 and from the law college of the same university in 1938. He was editor in chief of the California Law Review in 1938 and was admitted to the California bar in the same year. Between 1938 and 1942 he served as attorney for the National Labor Relations Board. He also studied chemistry and physiology. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

He served with the Office of Price Administration in 1942 as chief enforcement attorney for northern California and later as regional investigator for five Western States.

World War II

Condon entered the United States Army as a private in December 1942. He served overseas in the European Theater with Company G, Three Hundred and Tenth Infantry Regiment, Seventy-eighth Division, in France, Belgium, and Germany. He was discharged in February 1946 as a staff sergeant, having been decorated with two battle stars and the Silver Star.

California Assembly

He engaged in private practice of law in 1946 in Martinez, California and served as a member of the California State Assembly from 1948 to 1952.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Congress

Condon was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third Congress (January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1955). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress.

Later career and death

He resumed law practice in Martinez, California. After his death in Walnut Creek, California, on June 3, 1976 at age 63, Condon was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea, three miles beyond the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

Electoral history

1952 United States House of Representatives elections[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
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1954 United States House of Representatives elections[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
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References

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