Wadie P. Deddeh Papers 1967-1993
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Wadie P. Deddeh, California Legislator
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Biography Wadie P. Deddeh, Democrat, was a California Assembly Member from 1967-1983 and State Senator from 1983-1993. In 1966, Deddeh became the first Iraqi-born American elected to office anywhere in the United States. Deddeh attended the University of Baghdad and received a B.A. in Literature in 1946. After immigrating to the United States in 1948, he received a Master's Degree in Political Science in 1956 from the University o...
Deddeh, Wadie P.
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