Clair W. Burgener

CA Blue Book

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-06-1962	Republican	AD-76	40589	Win
11-03-1964	Republican	AD-76	55282	Win
11-08-1966	Republican	SD-38	125575	Win
11-03-1970	Republican	SD-38	132185	Win
11-07-1972	Republican	CD-42	158475	Win
11-05-1974	Republican	CD-43	115275	Win
11-02-1976	Republican	CD-43	173576	Win
11-07-1978	Republican	CD-43	167150	Win
11-04-1980	Republican	CD-43	299037	Win

Candidate Biography:

Sinclair Walter Burgener
Born: December 5, 1921 in Vernal, Utah
Married: Marvia Hobusch (in 1941)
Children: Rod, Greg, John
Military Service: ARMY (WWII)
Died: September 9, 2006 in Encinitas, CA

1953-1957: Member, San Diego City Council
1955-1956: Vice Mayor, City of San Diego
1959-1961: President, California Association for Retarded Children
1961-1962: Vice President, National Association for Retarded Children
1970-1973: Vice Chairman, Presidents Committee on Mental Retardation
1973: Resigned from the State Senate on January 3.
1983-1993: President, California State Personnel Board
1988–1997: Member, Regents of the University of California
1985-1987: Chairman, California Republican Party

• NOTABLE HISTORY: Burgener was probably the only Republican Party Chairman to ever be endorsed in his bid for Congress by nearly every Democrat (including Jerry Brown, Lt. Governor Mervyn M. Dymally, and Treasurer Jesse M. Unruh). In 1980, his Democratic opponent was Tom Metzger, a former KKK leader, who was strongly opposed by the Democratic establishment after he won the primary. 
• NOTABLE HISTORY: In the 1980 General Election, Burgener was elected with 299,037 votes, becoming the California Congressman to receive the highest number of votes ever. 
• PLACENAME: Clair W. Burgener Elementary was located in Oceanside until it closed in 1992. It is now operated as the "Clair Burgener Academy" by Oceanside Unified School District.

Source: California Blue Book (1963), (1967), (1971)
Source: "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present" (U.S. Library of Congress) [http://bioguide.congress.gov/]
Source: A Disorderly House: The Brown-Unruh Years in Sacramento by James R. Mills (Heyday Books; 1987)