Earl Warren

April 21, 2008 - 12:01pm

Who was the last Republican Congressman from the Bay Area?

The last time Republicans won a Bay Area House seat was in 1972, when William Mailliard won re-election to an eleventh term. Mailliard resigned his seat in Congress in 1974 when Richard Nixon appointed him to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS).  Democrat John Burton, then a State Assemblyman and Democratic Party Chairman – and the brother of powerful Rep. Phil Burton – captured the seat in a June Special Election over Republican Thomas Claylor by a margin of more than 2-1.

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