Mel Levine
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"Meldon Edises Levine" is an attorney and former Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic United States Congress/Congressman from California. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1993. He graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1960 and was student body president (1963–64) and valedictorian at the University of California, Berkeley. After attending Princeton University/Princeton (MPA 1966) and Harvard University/Harvard (JD 1969) Universities, he was admitted to the California bar in 1970, following which he set up a private practice.

He was a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator John V. Tunney from 1971 to 1973. He served in the California State Assembly from 1977 to 1982. He served in the House of Representatives from 1983 to 1993. In United States Senate elections, 1992/1992, Levine entered the Democratic primary election for the U.S. Senate, but lost the nomination to then-United States House of Representatives/Congresswoman Barbara Boxer. He supported the 1991 Gulf War Authorization Act, which authorized the use of United States Armed Forces pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 678.{{cite book / author = Michael Barone and Grant Ujifusa

/ year = 1991

/ title = The Almanac of American Politics 1992

/ publisher = National Journal

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