In 1978, as California voters passed Prop. 13, Dannemeyer won his first bid for the House, beating Democrat Bill Farris to represent the 39th Congressional District, which included much of ...

William Dannemeyer, a former Orange County congressman who spent much of his career fighting gay rights and helped cement Orange County’s reputation as a bastion of right-wing conservatism, has ...

Representative William E. Dannemeyer in 1989. ... Mr. Dannemeyer ran in every congressional election from 1978 to 1990 and never got less than about 70 percent of the vote in his district, ...

Over the years, there’ve been some pretty awful characters serving in Congress. But no one was as terrible as William Dannemeyer. Only his fellow Republican counterpart in the Senate, Jesse ...

William E. Dannemeyer, a seven-term congressman from California who exemplified the archconservative poli tics of Orange County, calling for a balanced federal budget while making national ...

WASHINGTON — William E. Dannemeyer, a seven-term California congressman who exemplified the archconservative politics of Orange County, calling for a balanced federal budget while making ...

William Dannemeyer, a seven-term congressman from Fullerton who favored an extreme vision of social conservatism that came to symbolize Orange County politics, died Tuesday at age 86 after ...