Title:

Joseph C. Houghteling family papers, 1839-2009

Creator/Contributor:

Houghteling, Joseph C., creator, compiler.

Creator/Contributor:

Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926, compiler.

Series I: Joseph C. Houghteling later life autobiographical overviews, and earlier childhood, youth, college, WWII-era, and early post-War papers; Series II: Joseph C. Houghteling's marriage, fatherhood, Frances Fisher Houghteling death, second marriage papers; Series III: Joseph C. Houghteling business papers; Series IV: Joseph C. Houghteling political papers; Series V: Joseph C. Houghteling California state commission and related papers; Series VI: Newspaper issues; Series VII: Lucretia Houghteling Zook Michael Robertson material; Series VIII: Virginia Cannon LeSeure Houghteling, William Houghteling, and Helen LeSeure Richardson Abdill papers; Series IX: Mabel Cannon LeSeure, Ernest X. LeSeure, and Helen Cannon papers; Series X: Congressman Joseph Gurney Cannon papers; Series XI: Cannon-LeSeure-Houghteling family scrapbooks.

Date:

1839 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca

Politics and government

Civil service -- California

Environmentalism -- California

Environnementalisme -- Californie

Joseph C. Houghteling -- Archives

Joseph Gurney Cannon -- Archives

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Gift of Elizabeth Houghteling; 2021.

Born in San Francisco in 1924, Houghteling was active in newspaper publishing, state and regional government, and land conservation. He was publisher of community newspapers including The Gilroy Dispatch, The Los Gatos Times-Observer, The Sunnyvale Standard, The Pleasanton Times and The Mountain View Register-Leader and was one-time owner of The Nevada County Nugget. He was a California delegate to the Democratic Conventions of 1956 and 1960, supporting John F. Kennedy and acted as Northern California treasurer to the 1960 Kennedy presidential campaign. He participated in many other campaigns, including those of both Pat and Jerry Brown, John Tunney, Dianne Feinstein and Pete McCloskey. Houghteling served on the boards of many nonprofits including California Tomorrow, the Planning and Conservation League Foundation, the Coro Foundation, Stanford Hospital, Peninsula School and the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Gov. Edmund G. "Pat" Brown appointed Houghteling to the State Park Commission, which Houghteling eventually chaired, in 1959; in 1964 he was appointed to the State Highway Commission. Houghteling was appointed to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission in 1971; in the mid-1970s, he was appointed chairman by Gov. Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr., a post he held until 1982. From 1972-1982, Houghteling was on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Houghteling also was president of the National Maritime Museum Association from 1992-1994. He died in San Francisco in June 2009.

Joseph C. Houghteling family papers, BANC MSS 2021/161, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

In English.

Type:

family papers.

photographs.

Photographs.

Scrapbooks.

Photographies.

print

25.5 (9 9

English

Origin:

California

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