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James B. Utt

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U.S. Congressman

The Resume

    (March 11, 1899-March 1, 1970)
    Republican Representative from Orange County, California (1953-1970)

Why he might be annoying:

    His middle initial and last name!
    He criticized Jessica Mitford for her book 'The American Way of Death,' which criticized the funeral industry, by saying that the profits from her book 'no doubt will find their way into the coffers of the Communist Party, U.S.A.,' even though she had quit the Communist party back in the 1940s.
    His big goal was to get the United States out of the United Nations.
    He was viewed as an idiot by liberals.
    He introduced a bill to suspend the deportation of Andrija Artukovic (who was one of his constituents) to Yugoslavia; he was a Nazi war criminal who was known as the 'Himmler of Croatia' (January 19, 1959).
    Partially due to the introduction of this bill, Artukovic would not be deported until 1986, by which time he was senile.
    He once claimed that black Africans may be training in Cuba to invade the United States (1963).
    He voted against the Civil Rights Acts of 1960, 1964, and 1968.
    He voted against the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was anti-Communist.
    He was well-liked by his conservative constituency.
    He voted for a strong civil rights bill that was dismissed by the Senate due to election concerns (1956).
    He voted in favor of Richard Nixon's Philadelphia Plan, which was a civil rights measure that got blacks into exclusively white construction labor unions (1969).
    He suffered a heart attack while attending church and died in the hospital.
    He was far better than his successor, John G. Schmitz.

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Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 9 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 24 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 20 Votes: 55.00% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 57 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 75 Votes: 49.33% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 107 Votes: 49.53% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 61 Votes: 49.18% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 91 Votes: 60.44% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 133 Votes: 68.42% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 386 Votes: 51.04% Annoying