George G. Crawford

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-06-1956	Republican	AD-79	40924	Win
11-04-1958	Republican	AD-79	34590	Win

Candidate Biography:

George Goeddel Crawford
Born: August 9, 1920 in San Diego, CA
Married: Esther Fitzenmeyer (in 1943)
Children: Toni Diane and Cheryl Anne
Military Service: ARMY (WWII), USAF
Died: October 31, 2012 in San Diego, CA

Previous: Assistant City Prosecutor, City of San Diego
1960: Resigned from the State Assembly on February 15.
1960-1972: Justice, San Diego Municipal Court
1973-1974: President, American Judges Association

• PUBLISHED: Was a coauthor of the book When Surrender Was Not an Option.
• During a WWII bombing mission, Crawford's B-24 bomber was shot down over Klagenfurt, Austria in March 1944. He was one of four survivors from a crew of 11 and was held as POW at Stalag Luft III for 14 months. The co-pilot on the flight was Burt Talcott, later a Congressman from Monterey. Crawford wrote about their incarceration in the book "When Surrender Was Not an Option."
• Although he was a Republican running against an incumbent Democratic Assemblymember (Wanda Sankary), Crawford was endorsed by Attorney General Pat Brown in 1956.
• Supreme Court Decision: In June 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a law which had most recently been amended by George G. Crawford, Frank Luckel, Jack Schrade, and Myron H. Frew, AB 2276 (1957), was unconstitutional. The law, which criminalized narcotics addiction, was found to violate the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment. (Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660 (1962)

Source: California Blue Book (1958)
Source: Members of the California Legislature and Other State Officials by the California Teamsters Legislative Council (1957 ed.)