Frederick F. Houser, California's lieutenant governor under Earl Warren, a three-term member of the state Assembly in the 1930s and early '40s and most recently a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, has died at age 85.
Don Schweitzer, a family member, said the retired lawmaker and jurist died Monday in a Laguna Beach hospital after a heart attack. He had been living in Laguna Beach after retiring from the bench in 1966.
A native of Los Angeles, he was born the son of Frederick W. Houser Sr., who became an associate justice of the state Supreme Court and Sara Wilde, one of the first women lawyers in California.
Houser was raised in Alhambra, attended UCLA where he was student body president in 1926 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1929.
