1. John Stephen Horn was President of California State University, Long Beach and later a five-term Republican United States Congressman from California from 1993 to 2003.
15 Facts About Steve Horn
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Steve Horn was born on May 31,1931, in San Juan Bautista, California, Steve Horn served in the United States Army Reserves from 1954 until 1962.
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Steve Horn earned his bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1953 and went on to earn a Master of Public Administration from Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration in 1955.
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In 1959, Horn became administrative assistant to Secretary of Labor James P Mitchell.
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Steve Horn played a major role in the 1964 presidential campaign of Nelson Rockefeller in California.
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Steve Horn served as Vice Chairman of the US Civil Rights Commission from 1969 to 1980 and as a member of the National Institute of Corrections from 1972 until 1988.
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Steve Horn was President of California State University Long Beach from 1970 until 1988 when he stepped down to run for Congress.
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Steve Horn gained passage of legislation allowing California's senior citizens to take courses for reduced fees on all 23 campuses of the California State University.
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Steve Horn established one of America's first programs for women returning to college.
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Steve Horn created the CSULB Disabled Resources Center, which served as a model to institutions across the United States.
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Steve Horn first ran for Congress in 1988 in a race to succeed Republican Dan Lungren but lost the primary to conservative Dana Rohrabacher.
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Steve Horn narrowly won an 8-way Republican primary before beating Anderson's stepson, then Long Beach city councilman Evan Anderson Braude, in the general election.
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Steve Horn subsequently announced his retirement and did not seek reelection in 2002.
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Steve Horn did give a surprise endorsement to Democrat Hector De La Torre, who ran to succeed Horn in the re-drawn seat and finished second to Linda T Sanchez in the Democratic primary.
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Steve Horn died on February 17,2011, at the age of 79, of complications from Alzheimer's disease.