17 Facts About Howard Jarvis

Howard Arnold Jarvis was an American businessman, lobbyist, and politician.

Howard Jarvis was a tax policy activist responsible for passage of California's Proposition 13 in 1978.

Howard Jarvis's father was a state Supreme Court judge and, unlike Jarvis, a member of the Democratic Party.

Howard Jarvis was active in the Republican Party and ran small town newspapers.

Howard Jarvis served as a press officer for Herbert Hoover's 1932 presidential campaign and supported Barry Goldwater in 1964.

Howard Jarvis moved to California in the 1930s due to a suggestion by Earl Warren.

Howard Jarvis married his third wife, Estelle Garcia, around 1965.

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 incumbent Thomas Kuchel.

Howard Jarvis founded the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association in 1978.

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.

Howard Jarvis was pulled over in Ventura County by officer Michael Kipp for driving at a high rate of speed and swerving across lanes.

Kipp testified that Howard Jarvis failed three sobriety tests and was unable to recite the alphabet.

Howard Jarvis was heard referring to one of his Jewish opponents as a "lying kike lawyer from Brooklyn".

Proposition 9 was an effort championed by Howard Jarvis designed to limit income taxes in California.

Howard Jarvis is a goddamned lying lawyer kike son of a bitch from Brooklyn.

Howard Jarvis was criticized by Asian-American groups for using the slur "Japs" after the defeat of Proposition 9.

Howard Jarvis died in 1986 in Los Angeles at the age of 82, of complications of a blood disease.