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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—CaliforniaJerry Lyle PETTIS
(1916-1975)
PETTIS, Jerry Lyle,
(husband of Shirley Neil Pettis), a Representative from California;
born in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz., July 18, 1916; received
elementary and secondary education in Arizona and California;
graduated from Pacific Union College, Angwin, Calif., in 1938;
engaged in graduate work at the University of Southern California
and the University of Denver in 1939-1941; founder of Magnetic Tape
Duplicators of Los Angeles; founder of Audio-Digest Foundation, a
subsidiary of California Medical Association; founder of a
consultant firm for radio, television, and the motion picture
industry; flight instructor, search and rescue pilot, Colorado Wing
CAP; as pilot with Air Transport Command, Pacific Theater,
1941-1946; professor of economics; vice president for development
and chairman of the Board of Councilors, Loma Linda University,
Loma Linda, Calif., 1948-1961; special assistant to the president
of United Air Lines, Chicago, Ill.; ranch owner in Pauma Valley,
Calif.; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth Congress;
reelected to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January
3, 1967, until his death February 14, 1975, in a private aircraft
crash in Banning, Calif.; interment in Montecito Memorial Park, San
Bernardino, Calif.
Bibliography
Wood, Miriam. Congressman Jerry L. Pettis: His Story.
Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Assocation, 1977.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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