Oral history interview with Carlos J. Moorhead, 1997

Resource Information

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Label

Oral history interview with Carlos J. Moorhead, 1997

Statement of responsibility

by Susan Douglass Yates

Inclusive dates

1997

Creator

• Moorhead, Carlos J., 1922-

Contributor

• University of California, Los Angeles, Oral History Program
• State Government Oral History Program (Calif.)
• Yates, Susan Douglass

Interviewee

• Moorhead, Carlos J., 1922-
• Moorhead, Carlos J, 1922-

Interviewer

• Yates, Susan Douglass

Subject

• Reagan, Ronald
• Nixon, Richard M., (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
• California -- Politics and government -- 1951-
• Legislators -- California -- Interviews
• Brown, Edmund G., (Edmund Gerald), 1905-
• California, Legislature | Assembly
• Rodino, Peter W
• oral histories
• Republican Party (Calif.)
• Gingrich, Newt
• Monagan, Robert T., (Robert Timothy), 1920-
• Unruh, Jesse, 1922-1987
• Moorhead, Carlos J, 1922-
• O'Neill, Tip
• United States, Congress | House

Genre

• Interviews
• oral histories

Language

eng

Summary

Moorhead discusses his family background and childhood in California, his successful bids for State Assembly in 1966 and for House of Representatives in 1972. Also covered is his service in the Assembly during the Democratic leadership of Jesse M. Unruh and the Republican governorship of Ronald W. Reagan, the House Judiciary Committee during the Richard M. Nixon impeachment hearings, and various activities while in the State Assembly and Congress

Additional physical form

Audiotape recording available in the California State Archives.

Biographical or historical data

Carlos J. Moorhead was a representative of the Forty-third Assembly District in the California State Assembly from 1966 until 1972. During his tenure, Moorhead was vice chair of the Natural Resources, Planning and Public Works Committee, and a member of the California Law Revision Commission. Moorhead left the Assembly after being elected in 1972 to the U.S. House of Representatives. When he was first elected, he represented the Twentieth Congressional District. Upon beginning his term in the House of Representatives in 1973, Moorhead served on the Judiciary Committee during the impeachment hearings of President Richard M. Nixon. He served as vice chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee and of the Subcommittee on Intellectural Property and Judicial Administration. He also was Republican dean of the California congressional delegation and was appointed to serve on the Federal Court Study Commission by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. Moorhead was a founding member of the California Institute for Federal Policy, a think tank formed to help inform California's congressional members.

Cataloging source

CLU

Form designation

oral history transcript

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Location of originals duplicates

• The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
• California State University, Fullerton. Library. Oral History Program.
• California State University, Sacramento. Library. University Archives.
• Honnold Library for the Associated Colleges, Claremont, Calif.
• University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections.

Location of other archival material

• Records pertaining to Moorhead's terms in the House of Representatives from 1973 to 1996 (Collection 494);
• Available at Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles,