GEORGE DEUKMEJIAN HL Richardson GOVERNOR California POLITICAL Flyer DUKE Cali CA

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Hubert Leon "Bill" Richardson (born December 28, 1927) founded Gun Owners of America (GOA) in 1975 and served as a California state senator from 1966–89. He served as the state senate's Republican Caucus Chair for several of these years.[1] He was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1974, having been defeated by incumbent Alan Cranston. He ran for Congress in 1962, and again in 1992, having lost 51-40 percent to the Democrat Vic Fazio, member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 3rd congressional district.[2]
Richardson was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1927[3] and served in the United States Navy in World War II.[1] He was educated at Olympic College and the Cornish Conservatory, both in Seattle, Washington.[4] He is the father of action-film screenwriter Doug Richardson.[1]
Courken George Deukmejian Jr. (/djuːkˈmeɪdʒən/;[4] June 6, 1928 – May 8, 2018), in Armenian Ջորջ Դոքմեջյան, in Western Armenian Ճորճ Տէօքմէճեան was an American politician who was the 35th Governor of California from 1983 to 1991 and Attorney General of California from 1979 to 1983. Deukmejian was the first and so far the only governor of a U.S. state of Armenian descent.
Deukmejian was born Courken George Deukmejian Jr. in Menands, New York.[5] His parents were Armenians who emigrated from the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s to escape the Armenian Genocide.[6] His father, George Deukmejian, who lost his sister during the Genocide,[7][6] was a rug merchant born in Gaziantep.[8] Deukmejian's mother, Alice Gairden,[9] was born in Erzurum and worked for Montgomery Ward and later for New York State.[10] Deukmejian graduated with a B.A. in Sociology from Siena College in 1949.[9][1] He then earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from St. John's University in 1952.[11] From 1953 to 1955, he served in the U.S. Army, assigned to the Judge Advocate General's Corps.[12]
Deukmejian moved to California in 1955 where his sister, Anna Ashjian, introduced him to his future wife Gloria Saatjian, a bank teller whose parents were also immigrants from Armenia.[10] They married on February 16, 1957[13] and had three children: two daughters, born in 1964 and 1969; and one son, born in 1966.[14][1]
Political beginnings
Deukmejian entered politics in California after a short period of private practice in Long Beach alongside Malcolm M. Lucas.[15] In 1962, was elected to represent Long Beach in the State Assembly.[16] In 1966, he was elected as a state senator, serving from 1967 to 1979.[16] He was a high-profile advocate for capital punishment.[17] By 1969, he was the Majority Leader of the California State Senate.[16] He first ran for Attorney General of California in 1970, finishing fourth in the Republican primary.[18] He won the election for Attorney General in 1978 and served from 1979 to 1983.[18] During this time, he led a high-profile campaign against cannabis in northern California.[19] Additionally, he led a veto override against Governor Jerry Brown who had vetoed legislation to authorize the death penalty.[3]
Governorship
Deukmejian was elected in 1982 to his first term as Governor of California, defeating Lieutenant Governor Mike Curb, a recording company owner, in the Republican primary.[14][20] One of his early primary backers was former gubernatorial candidate Joe Shell of Bakersfield, California, a conservative who had opposed Richard M. Nixon in the 1962 primary.[21] Upon his victory, The New York Times published, "The image that comes across of Mr. Deukmejian - a devoted family man, an Episcopal churchman, an ice cream lover - led one reporter to write, ''California may have accidentally elected Iowa's Governor.''"[22]
Deukmejian (dark red) defeated Tom Bradley (dark blue) with a 49.3% to 48.1% voter margin in the 1982 gubernatorial election
In the general election, Deukmejian ran as a conservative supporter of public safety and balanced budgets.[23] In addition, he was strongly critical of outgoing Governor Jerry Brown and promised to run a very different administration.[14] He also strongly criticized the Supreme Court of California, which was dominated by Brown appointees, notably controversial Chief Justice Rose Bird.[24]
Deukmejian narrowly defeated Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley in the general election.[3] Deukmejian won the election by about 100,000 votes, about 1.2 percent of the 7.5 million votes cast.[25] The victory came despite opinion polls leading up to the election that consistently showed Bradley with a lead, and despite exit polling conducted after voting closed that led some news organizations on the night of the election to make early projections of a Bradley victory.[26][27] The discrepancy between the polling numbers and the election's ultimate results would come to be termed the "Bradley effect", which refers to a hypothesized tendency of white voters to tell interviewers or pollsters that they are undecided or likely to vote for a black candidate, but then actually vote for his opponent.[27]
Altogether Deukmejian's governorship was a departure from that of his predecessor, Jerry Brown.[28] He vowed not to raise taxes,[29][30] later saying that he was "business friendly".[31] In addition, he presented himself as a law and order candidate, proposing new efforts to fight crime.[16] He faced a Democrat-dominated California State Legislature during his two terms as governor.[14] He was the sole Republican statewide officeholder until Thomas W. Hayes was appointed California State Treasurer, following the death of Treasurer Jesse Unruh.[23]
In 1983, Deukmejian abolished the Caltrans Office of Bicycle Facilities and reduced state spending for bicycle projects from million to the statutory minimum of 0,000 per year.[32] In 1984, he vetoed A.B. 1, the first bill to ban discrimination against gays and lesbians, which passed the Legislature.[33]
Deukmejian with President Ronald Reagan at a presidential campaign rally in Fountain Valley, California in September 1984
In 1986, Bradley sought a rematch and Deukmejian defeated him by a 61% to 37% percent margin.[25] He was generally regarded as a moderate-to-conservative Republican.[16]
The Deukmejian administration entered office during a national economic recession.[34] He first halted the hiring of new state employees and banned out of state travel for those in government.[35] He rejected the legislature's demands for tax hikes, and pared .1 billion from its budget by selectively vetoing spending items.[36] One year later, further cuts, along with a nationwide economic rebound that benefited the state, created a billion dollar surplus for 1985.[37] His 1985 budget slightly increased spending in highway construction, but cut heavily into the education, health, Welfare and environmental budgets.[38] For this he was roundly criticized, and the cuts probably led to his low polling numbers at the end of his tenure as governor.[39][40]
Three years later, Deukmejian faced his own billion dollar deficit.[41] He supported a raise in the state minimum wage in 1989.[42]
Deukmejian largely made his career by being tough on crime.[16] When he was in the legislature, he wrote California's capital punishment law.[16] As a candidate for reelection, in 1986 he opposed the retention election of three Brown-appointed justices of the Supreme Court of California due to their consistent opposition to the death penalty in any and all circumstances.[43][25] One of them (the best known) was Rose Bird, the first female Chief Justice of the Court (and the first one to be voted off).[25] Deukmejian proceeded to elevate his friend and law partner, Malcolm M. Lucas, from Associate Justice to Chief Justice, and appointed three new associate justices.[6] Under Deukmejian, the California prison population nearly tripled — as of December 31, 1982, the total prison population stood at 34,640 inmates.[34] He increased spending for the building of new prisons.[34]
In 1988, then-Vice President George H. W. Bush considered Governor Deukmejian as a possible running mate for the presidential election that year.[44] During a trade mission to South Korea in August, Deukmejian sent a letter saying he could not be considered for nomination, refusing to leave the governorship to Democratic Lieutenant Governor Leo T. McCarthy.[44] Deukmejian did not seek reelection to a third term as governor in the 1990 gubernatorial elections.[23] The Republicans instead nominated sitting United States Senator Pete Wilson, who defeated Dianne Feinstein in the general election.[23] He was the last governor not affected by the two-term limit that was passed by voters in 1990.[16]
On October 1, 1989, Governor Deukmejian signed legislation authorizing the purchasing of health insurance by uninsured Californians suffering from serious illnesses, such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, through tobacco tax revenues.[45]
In 1991, in his last days in office, he vetoed the property tax exemption bill that applied to companies building solar in California.[46] This exemption was focused towards the Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) plants then being built by Luz International Limited (Luz).[46] The veto led to the bankruptcy of Luz.[46]
Post-governorship
Jerry Brown (left), Gray Davis (center) and Deukmejian (right) in September 2010
Deukmejian was a partner in the law firm of Sidley & Austin from 1991 until 2000 when he retired.[16][23] He reentered public life by serving on special committees, including one to reform the California penal system, and a charter-reform committee in his hometown of Long Beach.[47] He oversaw a revamping of the UCLA Willed Body Program after a scandal involving the sale of human body parts donated for science.[48] In 2013, a courthouse in Long Beach was named in his honor.[2][49] Deukmejian received an honorary doctor of laws degree from California State University, Long Beach, in 2008, because of his support for education, state law, and Long Beach.[50]
Death
Deukmejian died at his home in Long Beach on May 8, 2018 at the age of 89.[6] California Governor Jerry Brown said on Twitter: "George Deukmejian was a popular governor and made friends across the political aisle. Anne and I join all Californians in expressing our deepest condolences to his family and friends".[51]
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