Eldon D. Rudd
| Eldon Rudd | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona's 4th district |
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In office January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1987 |
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| Preceded by | John Bertrand Conlan |
| Succeeded by | Jon Kyl |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 15, 1920 Camp Verde, Arizona |
| Died | February 8, 2002 (aged 81) Scottsdale, Arizona |
| Resting place | National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater |
Arizona State College University of Arizona Law School |
| Profession | lawyer, politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
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| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Marine Corps
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| Years of service | 1942–1946 |
Eldon Dean Rudd (July 15, 1920 – February 8, 2002) was a U.S. Republican politician.
Rudd was born in Camp Verde, Arizona. A 1939 graduate of Clarkdale High School in Clarkdale, Arizona, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1942 and served as a fighter pilot during World War II. After his discharge in 1946, he attended Arizona State College, from which he graduated in 1947, and the University of Arizona Law School in Tucson.
After a brief period in private practice, Rudd became a special agent for the FBI in 1950. As the only FBI field agent in Washington, D.C. fluent in Spanish in 1954, Rudd participated in the interrogation of the Puerto Rican nationalists involved in the attack on the US House of Representatives that year. His report impressed Director J. Edgar Hoover, who offered Rudd his next choice of assignment, which he received as U.S. legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, where he served from 1960 to 1970.
When assassin Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, Rudd was ordered by Hoover to collect from the Mexican government their law enforcement and intelligence files on Lee Harvey Oswald, including files relating to Oswald's connections to the pro-Fidel Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee, Oswald's several trips to and from Cuba, and his arrest in Mexico City. Rudd obtained Oswald's file from the Mexican government and flew a Cessna aircraft from Mexico City to Dallas, Texas, to provide the documents to FBI officials in Dallas as Kennedy's body was on its way to Washington, D.C. with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and widow Jacqueline Kennedy.
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