Honoring the life and legacy of John Seymour, the late Senator for the State of California.

To honor the life and public service of John Seymour, this resolution would express profound sorrow at his death and respectfully request that the Clerk transmit an enrolled copy to his family. Seymour was born on December 3, 1937 in Chicago and served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1955 to 1959. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1962 and worked in southern California real estate, including serving as president of the California Association of Realtors in 1980. He served on the Anaheim City Council from 1974 to 1978 and as Mayor from 1978 to 1982, helping bring the Los Angeles Rams to Orange County and promoting police-community trust. He later served as a California state senator and was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1991, where he supported special education, women’s rights, environmental protection, affordable housing, and helped pass the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, which secured billions in funding for California.