MCDONOUGH GORDON L.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP01-01773R000300110069-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2007
• Sequence Number: 69
• Content Type: BIO

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BIOGRAPHY
h1cDONOUGH, GORDON L., Republican, of Los Angeles, Calif. ; born in
Buffalo, N. Y.; educated in Pennsylvania; profession, industrial
chemist; specialized in metallurgy and explosives manufacturing;
married Catherine Ann McNeil, of Niagara Falls, N. Y.; has
family of seven children, five sons and two daughters; all five sons
served in the armed forces in World War II; they are:
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member, Veterans of Foreign Wars; former member of executive
committee of Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Council, Boy Scouts
of America; honorary member, Southwest Los Angeles Kiwanis Club;
received citation from Navy for aid in civilian recruiting, and from
United States Treasurer for United States bonds sales; received
citation from : nerican Legion for meritorious service rendered to
veterans; received citation from Cabrillo Assembly, fourth degree
Knights of Columbus for leadership in civic affairs and humanitarian
problems; received Award of Merit from Cabrillo Chapter, Daughters
of American Revolution for services and accomplishments for pro-
tection of our Constitutional Republic, appointed a member of the
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors by the late Gov. James
Rolph, Jr. , of California, in August 1933; elected three successive
times to 4-year terms; first chairman of Los Angeles County War
Council; served as chairman of the Los Angeles County Board of
Supervisors; served as chairman of the Los Angeles County Flood
Control District; served as chairman of the Los Angeles County
Sanitation District, nominated as Republican candidate for Congress-
man of the Fifteenth California District July 1944; elected to the
Seventy-ninth Congress November 7, 1944; reelected to the Eightieth,
Eighty-first, Eighty-second, Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-
fifth Congresses; member of House Banking and Currency Committee,
Subcommittee on Housing and Joint Committee on Defense Production;
United States delegate to Interparliamentary Union.
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