About Otis G. Pike
Otis Grey Pike (August 31, 1921 – January 20, 2014) was an American lawyer and politician who served nine terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York, from 1961 to 1979. == Early life == Pike was born in Riverhead, New York. He served in the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific as a dive bomber and night fighter pilot from 1942 until 1946. He graduated with an AB from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1943 after completing a senior thesis titled "American-Chinese Relations: Emphasizing the Years 1931-1941." He then received a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 1948. == Public office == Pike was first elected to public office in the Town of Riverhead as a Justice of the Peace. === Tenure in Congress === Pike ran for Congress in New York's 1st congressional district in 1958, an election which he lost to incumbent Stuyvesant Wainwright. Two years later, in 1960, he ran again and this time narrowly defeated Wainwright. Pike represented the 1st district from January 3, 1961, until January 3, 1979. Pike was a member of the House Armed Services Committee and in the mid-1970s headed the Congressional Special Select Committee on Intelligence, the House version of the Senate Committee on Intelligence headed by Senator Frank Church. The House of Representatives voted 246–124 to direct that the Pike report not be released if not certified by the President not to contain classified information.
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