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| branch = United States Navy | serviceyears = 1943–1946 | footnotes = }} Leo Joseph Ryan, Jr. (May 5, 1925November 18, 1978) was an American teacher and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative as a member of the Democratic Party. He represented California's 11th congressional district from 1973 until he was shot to death in Guyana by members of the Peoples Temple, shortly before the Jonestown mass suicide on November 18, 1978, just 11 days after Ryan's election to a fourth term. He is arguably the only sitting member of the U.S. House of Representatives to have been assassinated in office.〔Other members of the House of Representatives have been killed while in office, though not as assassination attempts, and others have been the target of deliberate assassination attempts, though none of the other attempts were successful. See United States Congress members killed or wounded in office for details〕〔 "Thirty-five years later, Ryan remains the only U.S. representative to be killed in the line of duty."〕 After the Watts Riots of 1965, Assemblyman Ryan took a job as a substitute school teacher to investigate and document conditions in the area. In 1970, he investigated the conditions of California prisons by being held, under a pseudonym, as an inmate in Folsom Prison, while presiding as chairman of the Assembly committee that oversaw prison reform. During his time in Congress, Ryan traveled to Newfoundland to investigate the practice of seal hunting. Ryan was also famous for vocal criticism of the lack of Congressional oversight of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and authored the Hughes–Ryan Amendment, passed in 1974. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously in 1983. ==Early life and education== Ryan was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. Throughout his early life, his family moved frequently through Illinois, Florida, New York, Wisconsin, and Massachusetts. He graduated from Campion Jesuit High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in 1943. He then received V-12 officer training at Bates College and served with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946 as a submariner. Ryan graduated from Nebraska's Creighton University with a B.A. in 1949 and an M.S. in 1951.〔 He served as a teacher, school administrator and South San Francisco city councilman from 1956 to 1962. He taught English at Capuchino High School, and chaperoned the marching band in 1961 to Washington, D.C., to participate in President John F. Kennedy's inaugural parade. Ryan was inspired by Kennedy's call to service in his inaugural address, and decided to run for higher office. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leo Ryan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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