Bill Young
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| Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee | |
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In office January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2005 |
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| Speaker | Dennis Hastert |
| Preceded by | Bob Livingston |
| Succeeded by | Jerry Lewis |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 13th district |
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In office January 3, 2013 – October 18, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Vern Buchanan |
| Succeeded by | David Jolly |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 10th district |
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In office January 3, 1993 – January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Andy Ireland |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Webster |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 8th district |
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In office January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Andy Ireland |
| Succeeded by | Bill McCollum |
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In office January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1973 |
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| Preceded by | William Cramer |
| Succeeded by | James Haley |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 6th district |
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In office January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Sam Gibbons |
| Succeeded by | Buddy MacKay |
| Member of the Florida State Senate | |
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In office 1961–1970 |
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Charles William Young December 16, 1930 Harmarville, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | October 18, 2013 (aged 82) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Marian Ford (1949–1985) Beverly Angello (1985–2013) |
| Children | Terry (with Ford) Pamela (with Ford) Kimber (with Ford) Billy (with Angello) Patrick (with Angello) |
| Religion | Methodism |
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| Service/branch | Army National Guard |
| Years of service | 1948–1957 |
| Rank |
 Master Sergeant
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Charles Bill Young (December 16, 1930 – October 18, 2013) was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 2013. A Republican from Florida, Young served as chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations from 1999 to 2005. He was the longest-serving Republican member of Congress at the time of his death.
Young was born in Harmarville, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, in 1930. He had Irish, German, and Swiss ancestry. He grew up in a Pennsylvania coal town in a shotgun shack. His father abandoned the family and a flood washed away their home at age 6. An uncle had a hunting camp in Florida, so the family moved there when he was 16. Young dropped out of St. Petersburg High School to support his ill mother, Wilma M. (Hulings) Young, and was wounded in a hunting accident. He married Marian Ford on August 20, 1949, when he was an 18-year-old high school dropout and she was 17, entering her senior year at St. Petersburg High School. When he was 18, he joined the Army National Guard and served from 1948 to 1957. After finishing his service, he applied for a job as an insurance salesman and ultimately ran an insurance agency.
In 1960 Young was elected to the Florida Senate, where he served from 1961 to 1970, and was minority leader in that chamber from 1966 to 1970. Until 1963, Young was the only Republican in Florida's upper chamber.
From 1962 through 1964, Young served on the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, commonly known as the Johns Committee (for its Chairman Charley Eugene Johns), a legislative panel that investigated the activities of homosexuals, communists and others thought to be subversive. In 1964, the committee released a pamphlet entitled Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida, which drew criticism at the time for its use of explicit photographs of homosexual acts. At the time, Young said of homosexuality: "Our report tried to show it in its true light – it's a very repulsive subject." Responding to reports that reprints of the pamphlet were being sold as pornography for a gay audience, Young said: "This indicates how bold the homosexual is becoming and further proves the necessity of state government taking the lead in responsibility for preventing these confirmed homosexuals from preying on the youth of the state." In 1993, Young was asked about his involvement with the report by the St. Petersburg Times and said: "I am not supportive of homosexuality, but that's the decision of the people who are involved in it. If someone wants to engage in that sort of behavior, that's their choice." Young also stated that the committee was largely inactive during his tenure due to the illness of its chair, Charley Eugene Johns, and that he was not involved enough in the committee to be either proud or regretful of its work.
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