 In 1959 he served as a member of the committee to form the Mojave Water Agency (MWA), a regional water management agency that secured a contract with the State of California for an allocation of imported water supply from the State Water Project.The MWA serves a 4,900 square mile area in the High Desert of San Bernardino County, including the Hesperia area.In 1956, he was an alternate delegate from Sierra Madre, California to the Republican National Convention.