John V. Briggs (born 1930) is a retired California state politician who served in the California State Assembly and the California State Senate. He is perhaps best known for sponsoring Proposition 6 in 1978, also known as the Briggs Initiative, which attempted to remove all gay or lesbian school employees or their supporters from their jobs. The measure failed.
He was born in Mitchell, South Dakota and moved to southern California in 1935, where ...
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John V. Briggs (born 1930) is a retired California state politician who served in the California State Assembly and the California State Senate. He is perhaps best known for sponsoring Proposition 6 in 1978, also known as the Briggs Initiative, which attempted to remove all gay or lesbian school employees or their supporters from their jobs. The measure failed.
He was born in Mitchell, South Dakota and moved to southern California in 1935, where his single mother raised him. He attended high school and college in southern California, then served in the United States Air Force from 1947 to 1951, seeing action in the Korean Theater; later, he was in the United States Naval Reserve. Near the end of his military service, Briggs met his future wife, Carmen Nicasio, at a USO dance. Together, they have three grown children, eight grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
In Briggs' early career, he started a successful insurance brokerage. In June 1973 (during his fourth term as...
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