John Veneman

{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = John Veneman |birth_date = {{birth date|1925|10|31}} |birth_place = Corcoran, California, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1982|4|11|1925|10|31}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-times-advocate-obituary-for-john-v/188538663/|title=John Veneman|work=Daily Times-Advocate|date=April 12, 1982|page= 26}}</ref> |death_place = Sacramento, California, U.S. |state_assembly = California |district = 30th |term = January 30, 1962 – March 6, 1969 |preceded = Ralph M. Brown |succeeded = Clare Berryhill |party = Republican |education = University of Texas at Austin |spouse = Nita Bomberger (m. 1947) |children = Ann Veneman and 2 others }} '''John G. Veneman''' (October 31, 1925 – April 11, 1982) was a Republican politician from Modesto, California.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Veneman's rise to Cabinet post is a story about good people succeeding |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2000/12/28/veneman-s-rise-to-cabinet-post-is-a-story-about-good-people-succeeding/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251021193556/https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2000/12/28/veneman-s-rise-to-cabinet-post-is-a-story-about-good-people-succeeding/ |archive-date=2025-10-21 |access-date=2025-10-21 |work=Tampa Bay Times |language=en}}</ref> He was born in Corcoran and died in Sacramento. He was elected to the California State Assembly for the 30th District five times in succession, between 1962 and 1969. In 1969 he resigned to become Under Secretary at the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under Secretary of HEW Robert Finch.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.joincalifornia.com/candidate/5690|title=JoinCalifornia - John G. Veneman|website=www.joincalifornia.com|language=en|access-date=2017-08-02}}</ref> In 1974 he was unsuccessful in a bid to become Lieutenant Governor of California.

He was the father of Ann Veneman, United States Secretary of Agriculture 2001–2005. The portion of State Route 99 from the Stanislaus County line to State Route 132 in Modesto is named the "John G. Veneman Freeway". It was named by Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 171, Chapter 131, in 1984.

==References== *http://www.joincalifornia.com/candidate/5690 *http://www.cahighways.org/097-104.html

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