HOSMER, Craig, a Representative from California; born in Brea, Orange County,
Calif., May 6, 1915; attended the public schools; graduated from the University
of California in 1937; attended the University of Michigan Law School in 1938
and was graduated from the University of Southern California Law School in
1940; was admitted to the bar in 1940 and began practice in Long Beach, Calif.;
enlisted in the United States Navy in July 1940 and advanced to the rank of
commander; rear admiral, Naval Reserve; attorney with the Atomic Energy
Commission at Los Alamos, N.Mex., and special assistant United States district
attorney for New Mexico in 1948; returned to Long Beach, Calif., to private
practice; unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1950 to the
Eighty-second Congress; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third and to the
ten succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1953, until his
resignation December 31, 1974; was not a candidate for reelection in 1974 to
the Ninety-fourth Congress; president of the American Nuclear Energy Council,
Washington, D.C., 1975-1979; was a resident of Washington, D.C., until his
death on October 11, 1982, aboard a cruise ship bound for Mexico; interment at
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.