Happy Birthday To New Rochelle’s Anthony Charles Beilenson

Anthony Charles Beilenson, who was born in New Rochelle, turns 82 on Sunday.

Beilenson is a former Democratic Congressman from Southern California who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1997. He was born Oct. 26, 1932. He was elected to the California State Assembly in 1963, serving until 1967 and then served in the California State Senate from 1967 to 1976. One of his accomplishments in the California State Legislature was the Beilenson Act, which requires public hearings whenever hospitals close or reduce services.

Then Beilenson served 10 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 until his retirement in 1997. He served on the House Rules Committee and chaired the House Intelligence Committee. In tribute to his career of public service, Lake Balboa Park in California was renamed as the "Anthony C. Beilenson Park".

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