+ − Contact Information
Phone: (202) 225-1880
Fax: (202) 225-5914
Office Address:
2428 Rayburn House Office Building
+ − Biography
GARAMENDI, John, a Representative from California; born in Camp Blanding, Clay
County, Fla., January 24, 1945; B.A., University of California, Berkeley,
Calif., 1966; M.B.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1970; businessman;
rancher; United States Peace Corps, 1966-1968; member of the California state
assembly 1974-1976; member of the California state senate 1976-1990; California
state insurance commissioner, 1991-1994, 2002-2006; deputy secretary, United
States Department of the Interior, 1995-1998; lieutenant governor of
California, 2007-2009; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Eleventh
Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
United States Representative Ellen Tauscher, and reelected to the five
succeeding Congresses (November 3, 2009-present).
