King served as a member of the United States House Committee on Ways and Means , beginning a commitment that he would serve during twelve of his following thirteen terms in the House of Representatives , excluding only 1947-1948 , during the 80th United States Congress . Two years later , King again served as one of California 's delegates to the 1944 Democratic National Convention again held at Chicago Stadium from July 19 to July 21 . In the House elections on November 7 , 1944 , King again ran unopposed for state 's 17th district , and captured 147,217 votes , nearly 100 percent . In the 1946 House elections , King was again unopposed and captured 110,654 votes , or 99.4 percent . At the 1948 Democratic National Convention , King served as an alternate delegate from California . In continuance of 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
1948 Democratic National Convention
1948 Democratic National Convention
Cecil R. King