    Congressional Directory for the 105th Congress (1997-1998), June 1997.
    [Page 289]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

        HENRY B. GONZALEZ, Democrat, of San Antonio, TX; born in San
    Antonio, May 3, 1916; son of Leonides (deceased) and Genevieve Gonzalez
    (deceased), descendants of the original colonists of the State of
    Durango in northern Mexico, who fled their country as the result of the
    revolution and moved to San Antonio in 1911; attended San Antonio
    College, University of Texas, and St. Mary's University School of Law
    (J.D. and LL.B.), which conferred on him an honorary doctor of laws
    degree in 1965; honorary doctor of humanities degree, Our Lady of the
    Lake College, 1973; honorary doctor of laws degree, University of the
    District of Columbia, 1984; first elected to public office in 1953;
    served three years on the San Antonio City Council, and as mayor pro
    tempore for part of the second term; served as chief probation officer
    of Bexar County Juvenile Court; worked for bilingual publications, San
    Antonio Housing Authority, taught math and citizenship classes in
    veterans training program; elected to the State Senate of Texas in 1956,
    reelected in 1960; married Bertha Cuellar, 1940; eight children: Henry,
    Rose Mary (Mrs. Ramos), Charles, Bertha (Mrs. Terry Denzer), Stephen,
    Genevieve, Francis and Anna Maria (Mrs. Mark Ihle); 21 grandchildren;
    elected to the 87th Congress on November 4, 1961, to fill the unexpired
    term of Paul J. Kilday; reelected to each succeeding Congress; ranking
    member, Banking and Financial Services Committee; previously served as
    chairman, Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity and on the
    ad hoc Subcommittee on Robinson-Patman Act, antitrust legislation, and
    related matters; member, Select Committee on the Missing in Action in
    Southeast Asia; House Select Committee on Assassinations, vice chairman,
    94th Congress; served seven times as a House delegate to the U.S.-Mexico
    Interparliamentary Conference; member, National Commission on Consumer
    Finance (terminated December 1972).

                      Office Listings

    2413 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
     20515-4320............................................         225-3236
      Legislative Director.--Tod Wells.
      Executive Assistant.--Christine Ochoa.
    Federal Building, B-124, 727 East Durango Boulevard,
     San Antonio, TX 78206.................................   (210) 472-6195
                                                              (210) 472-6199

    County: Bexar County (part); cities of Alamo Heights (part), Atascosa
            (part), Balcones Heights, Castle Hills (part), Lackland AFB,
            Leon Valley (part), Macdona Somerset (part), San Antonio (part),
            and Terrell Hills (part), Von Ormy (part). Population (1990),
            566,217.
    ZIP Codes: 78002 (part), 78052 (part), 78054, 78069 (part), 78073
            (part), 78201, 78202 (part), 78203 (part), 78204 (part), 78205
            (part), 78206-07, 78208 (part), 78209 (part), 78210 (part),
            78212 (part), 78213 (part), 78215 (part), 78216 (part), 78217
            (part), 78218 (part), 78219 (part), 78225 (part), 78226-29,
            78230 (part), 78233 (part), 78234, 78236-37, 78238 (part), 78240
            (part), 78242, 78245 (part), 78250 (part), 78251 (part), 78252,
            78268, 78279, 78291