Robert Leggett
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Robert Louis Leggett (July 26, 1926 – August 13, 1997) was a U.S. Representative from California.
Born in Richmond, California, Leggett attended the public schools there. He served as an enlisted man in the United States Naval Air Corps from 1944 to 1946.
He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in 1947, and the University of California's Boalt Hall School of Jurisprudence with a J.D. in 1950. He was admitted to the bar in 1951 and began the practice of law in Vallejo, California. He served as member of the California State Assembly in 1960 and 1962.
Leggett was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963 - January 3, 1979).
He died August 13, 1997, in Orange, California, aged 71.
References
- United States Congress. "Robert Leggett (id: L000221)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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