Congressman Carlos Moorhead Dies

Carlos Moorhead, the conservative Republican U.S. congressman from Los Angeles County, has died at age 89 of Alzheimer's disease.

As a member of Congress, Carlos J. Moorhead represented Southern Californians in Washington for a quarter century, serving on Energy and Commerce committees as well as presiding as chairman of the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration.

Carlos John Moorhead was born in May of 1922 in Long Beach, California.  He was a WWII Army veteran with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and a graduate of UCLA (BA) and the USC School of Law (JD).

Moorhead was a Glendale attorney before entering politics in 1966 as a California State Assemblyman.  Ultimately elected to the U.S. Congress, Rep. Moorhead served throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

Congressman Moorhead supported President Richard Nixon during the Watergate impeachment hearings and voted against recommending three articles of impeachment.

Though a staunch political conservative, Carlos Moorhead believed in "bipartisanship with an emphasis on reaching a consensus on the various issues when possible."

Rep. Moorhead helped to establish the nonprofit California Institute for Federal Policy Research, an organization with the goal of bipartisan cooperation.

A longtime Christian member of the Presbyterian Church, Moorhead is survived by his wife, Valery Tyler Moorhead, his children and grandchildren.

Colleagues remember former Rep. Moorhead as a kind, diligent and selfless "model public servant" known for decency, civility and unwavering class.