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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Milton Marks, Jr. |
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San Francisco, California , United States |
| Email | None |
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July 22, 1920
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| Died | December 04, 1998
(78 years)
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| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
| Last Modifed | David
Nov 21, 2023 04:33pm |
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| Info | Ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic nominee for the Assembly from the 19th District in 1954.
Elected to the Assembly from the 21st District in 1958, 1960, 1962, and 1964.
Resigned from the Assembly on October 25, 1966.
As a member of the Assembly, Milton Marks authored legislation in 1962 creating the Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy. The agency, modeled after a federal commission chaired by former President Herbert Hoover, was fashioned as a bipartisan panel charged with promoting economy and efficiency and improved services to the public.
Senator Marks served on the panel, more commonly known as the Little Hoover Commission, from its founding in 1962 until 1993. That same year, the Legislature renamed the agency the Milton Marks Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy. Senator Marks left the Senate in 1996, ending a 38-year career as a California lawmaker. Senator Marks died in 1998 at the age of 78.
During his tenure, the Commission issued more than 100 reports to the Governor and the Legislature advocating improvements to the state’s internal operations, as well as programs that serve and protect Californians – from the nurturing of infants in foster care to the enforcement of nursing home regulations.
Throughout, Senator Marks worked to make the Commission a venue where people from various political perspectives could work toward the common goal of improving government operations.
At the Commission’s initial meeting on April 24, 1962, then Assemblymember Marks said: “The purpose of seeking to have people from both political parties on it was to have a wise spectrum of interest throughout the State, to cut down partisanship, to have an area where we could all sit down as Californians and not as partisans and work upon this important problem.”
Son of former Assemblyman Milton Marks, Sr., R-31.
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