Peter H. Behr

CA Blue Book (1975)

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-03-1970	Republican	SD-04	76412	Win
11-05-1974	Republican	SD-02	97704	Win

Candidate Biography:

Born: May 24, 1915 in New York, New York
Married: Sally (in 1942)
Children: Lola Haskins, Trudy Scott, and Peter Jr.
Military Service: USN
Died: March 10, 1997 in Greenbrae, CA

Previous: Member, Mill Valley Planning Commission
1956-1961: Member, Mill Valley City Council
1961-1970: Member, Marin County Board of Supervisors
1978: Principal opponent of Proposition 13

• LEGISLATION: Author of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (1972). The bill protected some of Northern California's rivers from damming and kept their waters from being diverted.
• Soledad Brothers: One of the most significant events in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s in California was the kidnapping and death of Marin County Superior Court judge Harold Haley on August 7, 1970. In that incident, a shotgun owned by activist Angela Davis was used to capture Judge Haley in his courtroom and attempt to escape with the judge as a hostage which ended with the deaths of . The are was represented in the State Assembly by Bill Bagley and in the Senate by Peter Behr.

Source: California Blue Book (1971)