Howard Arnold Jarvis (September 22, 1903 – August 11, 1986) was an American businessman, lobbyist, and politician. He was an anti-tax activist responsible for passage of California's Proposition 13 in 1978.
Anti-tax activist largely responsible for the passage of property tax bill Proposition 13 in California in 1978, limiting annual property tax increases to 1% per year. Founded the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association hjta.org.
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Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 455-457. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
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He was a consumer rights activist who led a campaign in California in 1978 for "Proposition 13" which cut property taxes by 57 percent.
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