Ron Dellums
| Ron Dellums | |
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| 48th Mayor of Oakland | |
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In office January 8, 2007 – January 3, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Jerry Brown |
| Succeeded by | Jean Quan |
| Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee | |
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In office January 3, 1995 – February 6, 1998 |
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| Leader | Dick Gephardt |
| Preceded by | Floyd Spence |
| Succeeded by | Ike Skelton |
| Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee | |
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In office January 20, 1993 – January 3, 1995 |
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| Speaker | Tom Foley |
| Preceded by | Les Aspin |
| Succeeded by | Floyd Spence |
| Chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee | |
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In office January 3, 1979 – January 20, 1993 |
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| Speaker |
Tip O'Neill Jim Wright Tom Foley |
| Preceded by | Charles Diggs |
| Succeeded by | Pete Stark |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 9th district |
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In office January 3, 1993 – February 6, 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Pete Stark |
| Succeeded by | Barbara Lee |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 8th district |
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In office January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Pete Stark |
| Succeeded by | Nancy Pelosi |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 7th district |
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In office January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1975 |
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| Preceded by | Jeffery Cohelan |
| Succeeded by | George Miller |
| Member of the Berkeley City Council | |
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In office 1967–1970 |
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| Personal details | |
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Ronald Vernie Dellums November 24, 1935 Oakland, California |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Athurine (div.) Leola "Roscoe" Higgs (1962–div 1999) Cynthia Lewis (m. 2000) |
| Children | Erik, Piper, Brandy, Pam and Michael |
| Alma mater | San Francisco State University, B.A. 1960 University of California, Berkeley School of Social Welfare, M.S.W. 1962 |
| Religion | Baptist |
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| Allegiance |  United States of America |
| Service/branch |
 United States Marine Corps
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| Years of service | 1954–1956 |
| Rank | Private First Class |
Ronald Vernie "Ron" Dellums (born November 24, 1935) served as Oakland's forty-eighth (and third African-American) mayor. From 1971 to 1998, he was elected to thirteen terms as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Northern California's 9th Congressional District, after which he worked as a lobbyist in Washington D.C..
Dellums was born into a family of labor organizers, and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps before serving on the Berkeley, California, City Council. Dellums was the first African American elected to Congress from Northern California and the first openly socialist successful non-incumbent Congressional candidate since World War II. His politics earned him a place on President Nixon's enemies list.
During his career in Congress, he fought the MX Missile project and opposed expansion of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber program. When President Ronald Reagan vetoed Dellums' Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, a Democratic-controlled House and a Republican-controlled Senate overrode Reagan's veto, the first override of a presidential foreign policy veto in the 20th century.
Dellums was born in Oakland, California, to Verney and Willa (Terry) Dellums. His father was a longshoreman. His uncle, C. L. Dellums, was one of the organizers and leaders of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He has a younger sister Theresa. His mother Willa died on August 17, 2008, at the age of 89.
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