Howard Arnold Jarvis was an American businessman, lobbyist, and politician.
10 Facts About Howard Jarvis
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Howard Jarvis was a tax policy activist responsible for passage of California's Proposition 13 in 1978.
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Howard Jarvis's father was a state Supreme Court judge and, unlike Jarvis, a member of the Democratic Party.
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Howard Jarvis was active in the Republican Party and ran small town newspapers.
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Howard Jarvis moved to California in the 1930s due to a suggestion by Earl Warren.
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Howard Jarvis married his third wife, Estelle Garcia, around 1965.
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Howard Jarvis was a Republican primary candidate for the US Senate in California in 1962, but the nomination and the election went to the moderate Republican Thomas Kuchel.
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Howard Jarvis founded the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association in 1978.
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In 1979, Jarvis received the S Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.
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Howard Jarvis died in 1986 in Los Angeles at the age of 83, of complications of a blood disease.