Cecil Heftel, U.S. Representative In Congress, 85, Washington Post

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/12/AR2010021205321.html

February 13, 2010

Cecil Heftel U.S. Representative

Cecil Heftel, 85, a Hawaii Democrat who served in the U.S. House of
Representatives from 1977 to 1986, died Feb. 4 [2010] Diego. No cause of
death was reported.

Mr. Heftel, a Honolulu broadcasting executive, resigned from the U.S. House
in July 1986 to run for governor. He lost the Democratic primary and then
resumed his business interests.

Cecil Landau Heftel was born in Chicago, served in the Army during World War
II and graduated from Arizona State University in 1951.

According to the Honolulu Advertiser, Mr. Heftel settled in Hawaii in 1964
and later bought a TV station whose "Checkers and Pogo" show aired from 1967
to 1982 and was "a wildly popular afternoon children's broadcast that a
generation of Hawaii residents still recall fondly."

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From the Congressional Bioguide at

http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp

HEFTEL, Cecil Landau, (1924 - 2010)

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HEFTEL, Cecil Landau, a Representative from Hawaii; born in Chicago,
Cook County, Ill., September 30, 1924; attended the public schools of
Chicago, Ill.; B.S. Arizona State University, Tempe, 1951; graduate
work at University of Utah and New York University; businessman;
president, Heftel Broadcasting, Honolulu, Hawaii; served in United
States Army, 1943-1946; delegate, Hawaii State Democratic convention,
1972; delegate to Democratic National Convention, 1972; elected as a
Democrat to the Ninety-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses and
served from January 3, 1977, until his resignation July 11, 1986; was
an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor
of Hawaii; died on February 4, 2010, in Honolulu, Hawaii.