the trend, he again ran unopposed in 1948 and 1950 and captured 99.9 percent of the vote in both elections. During the 1950s, King also served as the chairman of the House of Representatives subcommittee investigating tax irregularities. After facing his first competitive re-election bid in 1952 when he defeated Republican challenger Robert Finch by nearly 11 percent of the vote, King cruised by in future elections, capturing more than 60 percent of the vote in landslide elections in each biennial election from 1954 to 1966. King also was one of the first people involved in the issue of Medicare, and had carried on the battle in the House of Representatives throughout the 1950s and 1960s until President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare Bill on July 30, 1965. After nearly twenty-seven years of service, King was not a candidate for re-election in the 1968 House elections to the 90th United States Congress. His successor, Glenn M. Anderson, won a close election by a slim two percent margin. On March 17, 1974, King died of a stroke at a nursing home in Inglewood, California, at the age of 76. He was then interred in Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California. References External links The Political Graveyard profile for Cecil Rhodes King Join California Cecil R. King 1898 births 1974 deaths People from Niagara County, New York Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California United States Army personnel of World War I Santa Clara University alumni University of Southern California alumni Burials at Inglewood Park Cemetery 20th-century American politicians Democratic Party members of the California State Assembly