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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—California BURKE, Yvonne Brathwaite(1932—)BURKE, Yvonne Brathwaite, a Representative from California; born Perle Yvonne Watson in Los Angeles, Calif., October 5, 1932; attended the public schools in Los Angeles; B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., 1953; J.D., University of Southern California School of Law, Los Angeles, Calif., 1956; lawyer, private practice; served as deputy corporation commissioner, hearing officer for Los Angeles Police Commission, and attorney on the staff of the McCone commission; elected to California State legislature, 1967-1972; delegate to Democratic National Convention, 1972; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-third and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1979); not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for State Attorney General of California; appointed by the Governor to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors,1979-1980; elected a Los Angeles County Supervisor, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 to present; is a resident of Los Angeles, Calif. Elliot, Jeffrey M. “Congressional Black Caucus: An Interview with Yvonne Brathwaite Burke.” Negro History Bulletin 40 (January 1977): 650-2. Gray, Pamela L. “Yvonne Braithwaite Burke: The Congressional Career of California’s First Black Congresswoman, 1972-1978.” Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California, 1987. ”Yvonne Brathwaite Burke” in Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989 . Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991. “Yvonne Brathwaite Burke” in Women in Congress, 1917-1990. Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present |
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