Congressional Directory for the 105th Congress (1997-1998), June 1997.
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    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