- Children with first wife: Bruce, Bradley, Robert, Randall, Linda Lu.
- California state legislator.
- Longtime Speaker of the California Assembly (1961-1969), he represented Los Angeles in the state legislature from 1955-1971. He later served as the state's Treasurer from 1975 until his death.
- He lost the 1970 election for Governor of California to incumbent Ronald Reagan.
- Nicknamed "Big Daddy" both for his large girth - with his weight sometimes exceeding 400 pounds - and his considerable political power and influence.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 842-844. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
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