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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArizonaUDALL, Morris King
(1922—1998)
UDALL, Morris King, (brother of Stewart Lee Udall; father of Mark Udall; uncle of Thomas Udall; cousin of Gordon H. Smith), a Representative from Arizona; born in St. Johns, Apache County, Ariz., June 15, 1922; attended the public schools; graduated from high school, 1940; attended the University of Arizona; J.D., University of Arizona, 1949; United States Army, 1942-1946; professional basketball player; lawyer, private practice; county attorney, Pima County, Ariz., 1953-1954; lecturer, University of Arizona College of Law, 1956-1957; bank executive; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-seventh Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his brother, United States Representative Stewart Lee Udall, and reelected to the fifteen succeeding Congresses; served until his resignation on May 4, 1991 (May 2, 1961-May 4, 1991); chair, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Ninety-fifth through One Hundred Second Congresses); Presidential Medal of Freedom by President William J. Clinton, 1996; died on December 12, 1998, in Washington, D.C.
Bibliography
Carson, Donald W. and James W. Johnson. Mo: The Life Times of Morris K. Udall
. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001.
Bailey, James Michael. “The politics of dunes, redwoods, and dams: Arizona’s ’Brothers Udall’ and America’s national parklands, 1961-1969 (Indiana, California).” Ph.D. diss., Arizona State University, 1999.
Carson, Donald W. and James W. Johnson. Mo: The Life & Times of Morris K. Udall
. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001.
Sinclair, Ward. Morris Udall: The One-eyed Mormon Arizona Democrat
. Washington, D.C.: Capitol Hill News Service, 1976.
Sirgo, Henry. Establishment of Environmentalism on the U.S. Political Agenda in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: The Brothers Udall
. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 2004.
Tacheron, Donald G. and Morris K. Udall. The Job of the Congressman; An Introduction to Service in the U.S. House of Representatives
. 1966. Reprint, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.
Udall, Morris K. Arizona Law of Evidence
. St. Paul: West Publishing Company, 1960.
———. Education of a Congressman: The Newsletters of Morris K. Udall
. Edited by Robet L. Peabody, with the assistance of Tim Wyngaard and Michael Alonge. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1972.
Udall, Morris K., Joseph M. Livermore, Patricia G. Escher, and Grace McIlvain. Law of Evidence.
Vol. 1 of Arizona Practice. 3rd ed. St. Paul: West Publishing Company, 1991.
Udall, Morris K., Bob Neuman, and Randy Udall. Too Funny to be President
. New York: Henry Holt, 1988. Reprint, Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 2001.
Udall, Morris K., and Donald G. Tacheron. The Job of the Congressman: An Introduction to Service in the U.S. House of Representatives
. 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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