Former U.S. Senator John V. Tunney

John Varick Tunney, the son of famous boxer Gene Tunney, was born in New York City on June 26, 1934.

John was elected as a Democrat to be the California Representative of Riverside and Imperial Counties to the Eighty-ninth Congress and served from January 3, 1965 until his resignation on January 2, 1971.

John was elected in 1970 to the United States Senate representing California for a six-year term. He served from January 2, 1971, until his resignation on January 1, 1977.

John graduated from Yale University in 1956. He attended the Academy of International Law at The Hague, Netherlands, in 1957, and he graduated from the law school of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1959. He was admitted to the Virginia and New York bars in 1959 and practiced law in New York City.

John joined the United States Air Force as a judge advocate and served until discharged as a captain in April, 1963.

John taught business law at the University of California at Riverside in 1961 and 1962. He was admitted to practice law in California in 1963.

John was a special adviser to the President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime from 1963 until 1968.

John wrote the book, The Changing Dream, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1975. Click on the underlined words to read about The Changing Dream.

1970 Senate Race

John V Tunney (D) ----- 53.9
George Murphy (R) ----- 44.3

1976 Senate Race

Samuel I Hayakawa (R) - 50.2
John V Tunney (D) ----- 46.9

John V. Tunney - Chairman of the Board, Cloverleaf Group, and President of JVT Consultants, Inc., and President of the Museum Board of Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center at UCLA. John was also in the 1972 movie, 'The Candidate' which starred Robert Redford.

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