Ken Maddy

CA Blue Book

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-03-1970	Republican	AD-32	40446	Win
11-07-1972	Republican	AD-32	46532	Win
11-05-1974	Republican	AD-30	30694	Win
11-02-1976	Republican	AD-30	39410	Win
06-19-1979	Republican	SD-14	39917	Win
11-02-1982	Republican	SD-14	127980	Win
11-04-1986	Republican	SD-14	112270	Win
11-06-1990	Republican	SD-14	135369	Win
11-08-1994	Republican	SD-14	168017	Win

Candidate Biography:

Kenneth Leon Maddy
Born: May 22, 1934 in Santa Monica, CA
Married: Beverly Chinello, Norma Foster, [engaged to Marie Moretti (sister of Bob Moretti)
Children: Deanna Hose, Donald Paul Maddy, and Marilyn Geis
Military Service: USAF
Died: February 19, 2000 in Sacramento, CA

1978: Primary Candidate for Governor (Lost)
1979-1983: Minority Caucus Chair, California State Senate
1987-1995: Minority Leader, California State Senate
1999: Governor Gray Davis declared December 2nd as "Ken Maddy Day" [Honorary Day]

• LEGISLATION: Author of the Dixon-Zenovich-Maddy California Arts Act of 1975, which established the California Arts Council.
• PLACENAME: The portion of Route 99 constructed to freeway standards near the City of Livingston is officially named the "Kenneth L. Maddy" Freeway.
• PLACENAME: The Kenneth L. Maddy Institute is located at CSU Fresno
• PLACENAME: The Kenneth L. Maddy Equine Analytical Chemistry Laboratory is located at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
• In 2015, the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association (CTBA) established the Kenneth L. Maddy Award to recognize a member of the California Legislature who has shown extraordinary dedication to California's Thoroughbred industry.
• The coup to remove Maddy as Senate Minority Leader, which took place on August 24, 1995, has been cited by several longtime staffers as a major turning point in the increasingly partisan legislature of the 1990s-2000s.

Source: California Blue Book (1971), (1975)