Doug LaMalfa is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on July 2, 1960 in California, California, United States. He was in the California Assembly while Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor.
Douglas Lee LaMalfa (born July 2, 1960) is an American politician. A Republican, he has been the U.S. Representative for California’s 1st congressional district since 2013. The district, the second-largest in the state, covers nearly all of interior northern California including Chico, Redding, Susanville and Truckee.
From 1995 to 2016, LaMalfa was the recipient of the largest amount of money from agricultural subsidies (over $1.7 million) in the history of congress. As a member of the House Agricultural Committee, he oversees farm subsidies. In 2017, his spokesman, Parker Williams, stated that LaMalfa “voted to end direct farm subsidy payments in the very first farm bill he worked on” and that a new farm bill proposed does not provide subsidies for rice grown in California, a crop that LaMalfa farms.
He has four children with his wife Jill.
He served in the California State Senate, representing the 4th district, from 2010 to 2012, where he opposed a bill that would require history teachers in all California public schools to teach history of homosexuality and gay civil rights.
LaMalfa is a fourth-generation rice farmer and a lifelong Northern California resident. He graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor’s degree in Ag/Business. He and his wife, Jill, along with their four children, make their home on the family rice farm in Richvale, a rural unincorporated community south of Chico, that was founded by his great-grandfather in 1931.
