Edwin Reinecke

Edwin Reinecke

Edwin Reinecke (born January 7, 1924) is a retired California politician. He was born in Medford, Oregon, and served in the Navy during World War II. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1942 and then attended the California Institute of Technology, where he completed a degree in mechanical engineering. Together with his sister (Charlotte) and two brothers (Fred and Bill), he founded FEBCO, a manufacturing company, in southern California.Fact|date=February 2007 He served in the House of Representatives between 1965 and 1969. As a member of the Interior committee, he worked to preserve western rivers (including the Colorado River, which was to be dammed within the Grand Canyon).Fact|date=February 2007

He subsequently served as Lieutenant Governor of California January 8, 1969—October 2, 1974. Also in 1974, Reinecke ran for Governor of California, but failed to win the Republican Party nomination. He lost to the more liberal candidate, the late Houston I. Flournoy, who was then defeated by the Democrat Jerry Brown, still active in California politics as the state attorney general.

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* [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000159 Congressional biography]


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