[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 118 (Friday, July 31, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2114-E2115]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                TRIBUTE TO MR. JOSEPH CANNON HOUGHTELING

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 30, 2009

  Ms. ESHOO. Madam Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a Bay Area 
icon, Joseph Cannon Houghteling, who passed away at his home on June 
23, 2009, in San Francisco, California, at the age of 84. He was a 
distinguished American, a dedicated publisher, and a devoted husband, 
father and grandfather.
  Joe Houghteling was born in San Francisco and attended Phillips 
Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale in 1947 and 
throughout his life lived in Palo Alto, Los Gatos, Atherton and Portola 
Valley.
  In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, Joe Houghteling and his partners 
published a string of newspapers that included the Los Gatos Times-
Observer, The Sunnyvale Standard, The Mountain View Register-Leader, 
The Gilroy Dispatch, and The Pleasanton Times. He was a California 
delegate to the Democratic Conventions in 1956, supporting Adlai 
Stevenson, and in 1960, supporting John F. Kennedy.
  He was Northern California Treasurer of the 1960 Kennedy campaign and 
he actively participated in many other campaigns, including those of 
Governors Pat and Jerry Brown, Senator John Tunney, Senator Dianne 
Feinstein

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and former Congressman Pete McCloskey. He also served on the State Park 
Commission, the State Highway Commission, the San Francisco Bay 
Conservation and Development Commission, and the Metropolitan 
Transportation Commission.
  Joe Houghteling was President of the National Maritime Museum 
Association in San Francisco from 1992-1994 and served on the boards of 
many distinguished nonprofits including Stanford Hospital, California 
Tomorrow, the Planning and Conservation League Foundation, the Coro 
Foundation, Peninsula School and the California Newspaper Publishers 
Association.
  Joe Houghteling lived his life beautifully, gracefully, and full of 
commitment and our country and our community are immensely better 
because of him. I was blessed to know him, to have had his wise counsel 
and to have his loyal support throughout all the years of my public 
service.
  Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in extending our 
deepest sympathy to Mr. Houghteling's wife, Signa Judith Irwin 
Houghteling, his daughters, Anne of Palo Alto, Elizabeth of Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, and Mary of Berkeley, and his grandson, Philip Cannon 
Houghteling Balboni of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Joseph Cannon 
Houghteling gave our country a lifetime of service and we are a 
grateful nation for all he did throughout his special life.

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