Robert Condon
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Robert Likens Condon (November 10, 1912 - June 3, 1976) was a U.S. Representative from California.
Born in Berkeley, California, Condon attended the public schools. He was graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1934 and from the law college of the same university in 1938. He was editor in chief of the California Law Review in 1938. He was admitted to the California bar in 1938. Attorney for National Labor Relations Board 1938-1942. With the Office of Price Administration in 1942 as chief enforcement attorney for northern California and later as regional investigator for five Western States. He entered the United States Army as a private in December 1942. He served overseas in the European Theater with Company G, Three Hundred and Tenth Infantry Regiment, Seventy-eighth Division, in France, Belgium, and Germany. He was discharged in February 1946 as a staff sergeant. Decorated with two battle stars and the Silver Star. He engaged in private practice of law in 1946 in Martinez, California. He served as member of California State assembly 1948-1952.
Condon was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third Congress (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1955). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress. He resumed law practice in Martinez, California. He died in Walnut Creek, California, June 3, 1976. Cremated. Ashes scattered at sea, three miles beyond the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California.
