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Lungren, Daniel Edward, a Representative from California; born in Long Beach, Los Angeles County, Calif., September 22, 1946; attended St. Barnabas School, Long Beach, 1960; graduated from St. Anthony High School, Long Beach, 1964; A.B., Notre Dame University, South Bend, Ind., 1968; attended University of Southern California Law Center, Los Angeles, 1968-1969; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., 1971; admitted to the California bar in 1972; lawyer, private practice; staff for United States Senators George Murphy, California and Bill Brock, Tennessee; delegate, California State Republican conventions, 1974-1979; cochairman, National Congressional Council, 1977-1978; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1989); was not a candidate for renomination in 1988 to the One Hundred First Congress; elected California State attorney general in 1990 for the four-year term beginning in January 1991 and reelected in 1994; unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1998; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2005-January 3, 2013); chair, Committee on House Administration (One Hundred Twelfth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress in 2012.
