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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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GEARHART, Bertrand Wesley, a Representative from California; born in Fresno, Calif., May 31,
1890; attended the public schools; was graduated from Boones University School,
Berkeley, Calif., in 1910 and from the law department of the University of
Southern California at Los Angeles in 1914; was admitted to the California bar
in 1913 and commenced practice in Fresno, Calif., in 1914; served overseas as a
second lieutenant in the Six Hundred and Ninth Aero Squadron 1917-1919;
assistant district attorney and district attorney of Fresno County, Calif.,
1917-1923; served as a member of the board of directors of the California
Veterans Home in 1932; delegate to the California Constitutional convention in
1933; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth and to the six succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1949); was an unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; resumed the practice of law in
Fresno, Calif.; died in San Francisco, Calif., October 11, 1955; interment in
Mountain View Cemetery, Fresno, Calif.
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