Congressman Steve Kuykendall offers the 47th Congressional District a lifetime of public service
to our community, state and nation.

Kuykendall served in the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2001 representing California's 36th Congressional District. As a member of the House Armed Services, Science, and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees, he worked to improve the lives of military families, protect America's waterways and airports, encourage scientific innovation and rebuild the nation's infrastructure. He also helped craft a plan to pay down the national debt while protecting tax cuts and Social Security.

From 1994 to 1998, Kuykendall served in the California State Assembly where he demanded a full accounting of legislative spending and oversaw the Assembly's first "clean" fiscal audit in ten years. A strong independent leader, he worked to cut government waste, lower taxes, streamline business regulation, improve education, reduce crime and protect California's coastline.

Kuykendall also served as mayor and councilmember for Rancho Palos Verdes; president and trustee of the Peninsula Education Foundation; trustee of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy; chairman of the Palos Verdes Regional Law Enforcement Committee and vice-chairman of the Los Angeles County Emergency Preparedness Commission.

Commissioned in 1968 as a Marine Corps Second Lieutenant, Kuykendall served two tours of duty in Vietnam. Rising to the rank of captain, he retired from the US Marine Corps in 1973, with a permanent shoulder disability.

Kuykendall and his wife, Jan live in Long Beach. They have three grown children: daughter Kerry, a US Navy fighter pilot; son Brent, a public school administrator; and son Craig, a Los Angeles fire fighter.