Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis (April 6, 1901 – September 11, 1984) was a Democratic politician from California. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives, representing the 12th Congressional district in Los Angeles County from 1937 to 1947. He was the first political opponent of Richard Nixon, who defeated him for reelection in 1946 in a campaign cited as an example of red-baiting in Nixon's political rise.

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  • Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis (April 6, 1901 – September 11, 1984) was a Democratic politician from California. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives, representing the 12th Congressional district in Los Angeles County from 1937 to 1947. He was the first political opponent of Richard Nixon, who defeated him for reelection in 1946 in a campaign cited as an example of red-baiting in Nixon's political rise. Voorhis was born in Kansas, and moved around much in his childhood. He graduated from Yale University after being elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and secured a master's degree from Claremont Graduate School in education. He served in varying capacities as a young adult, becoming headmaster of newly-founded Voorhis School for Boys in 1928, a post he retained into his congressional career. In ten years in Congress, Voorhis compiled a liberal voting record, and was a loyal supporter of the New Deal. Voorhis's major legislative accomplishment was the Voorhis Act of 1940, requiring registration of certain organizations controlled by foreign powers. After four comfortable reelections, he faced Nixon in a bitter campaign in which Voorhis's supposed endorsement by groups linked to the Communist Party was a major issue. Nixon won the Republican-leaning district by over 15,000 votes, and Voorhis refused to consider a run in 1948. In a writing career spanning a half-century, Voorhis penned several books, and worked for almost twenty years following his defeat to Nixon as an executive in the cooperative movement. He died in a California retirement home in 1984, at the age of 83.
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  • Horace Jeremiah "Jerry" Voorhis (April 6, 1901 – September 11, 1984) was a Democratic politician from California. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives, representing the 12th Congressional district in Los Angeles County from 1937 to 1947. He was the first political opponent of Richard Nixon, who defeated him for reelection in 1946 in a campaign cited as an example of red-baiting in Nixon's political rise.
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