Ronald Vernie "Ron" Dellums (born November 24, 1935) served as Oakland's forty-eighth (and third African-American) mayor. From 1971 to 1998, he was elected to thirteen terms as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Northern California's 9th Congressional District, after which he worked as a lobbyist in Washington D.C.. Dellums was born into a family of labor organizers, and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps before serving...
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Ronald Vernie "Ron" Dellums (born November 24, 1935) served as Oakland's forty-eighth (and third African-American) mayor. From 1971 to 1998, he was elected to thirteen terms as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Northern California's 9th Congressional District, after which he worked as a lobbyist in Washington D.C.. Dellums was born into a family of labor organizers, and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps before serving...