I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 750 
To award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal to Stewart Lee Udall 
in recognition of his contributions to the Nation as hero for the environ-
ment, a champion for conservation, a civil right activist, a Native Amer-
ican crusader, and an advocate for the arts. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 15, 2013 
Mr. THOMPSON of California (for himself and Mr. GOSAR) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal to Stew-
art Lee Udall in recognition of his contributions to the 
Nation as hero for the environment, a champion for 
conservation, a civil right activist, a Native American 
crusader, and an advocate for the arts. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) Stewart Lee Udall was born to former Ari-
zona Supreme Court Justice Levi Stewart Udall and 
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Louise Lee Udall on January 31, 1920, in Saint 
Johns, Arizona. 
(2) Stewart Lee Udall began serving his coun-
try in 1942 when he joined the United States Army 
Air Corps (predecessor of the United States Air 
Force) during World War II, serving as an enlisted 
B–24 waist gunner in Italy. He flew more than 50 
missions over Western Europe over 4 years, receiv-
ing the Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters. 
(3) After coming home from war, Stewart Lee 
Udall returned to the University of Arizona where 
he received a bachelors and law degree and was ad-
mitted to the Arizona State Bar. After graduating 
from law school, he began his own private practice 
and eventually established the law firm of Udall and 
Udall with his brother Morris K. Udall. 
(4) Stewart Lee Udall’s first elected office was 
as a member of the Amphitheater School Board 
(1951), where he participated in desegregating the 
Amphitheater School District before the United 
States Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of 
Education. 
(5) Beginning in 1954, Stewart Lee Udall was 
elected to serve 4 terms as United States Represent-
ative from Arizona’s second district. 
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(6) Upon the 1960 Presidential election, Presi-
dent Kennedy appointed Stewart Lee Udall as Sec-
retary of the Interior. He maintained this position 
for 8 years, where his accomplishments under Presi-
dents Kennedy and Johnson made him a hero for 
the environmental and conservation communities. 
(7) Among the legislative accomplishments dur-
ing his cabinet career, Stewart Lee Udall helped 
guide numerous landmark environmental measures 
through Congress, including the Wilderness Act of 
1964, the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act 
of 1965, the Endangered Species Preservation Act 
of 1966, the National Trail System Act of 1968, the 
Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965, the Wild and Sce-
nic Rivers Act of 1968, the Clear Air Act, the Water 
Quality Act of 1965, and the Clean Water Restora-
tion Act of 1966. 
(8) Stewart Lee Udall was a coauthor of the 
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. This legislation 
created several new social programs that helped pro-
mote the health, education, and general welfare of 
the impoverished. Some of the programs remaining 
today include Head Start and the Job Corps. 
(9) As Secretary of the Interior during the 
Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Stewart Lee 
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Udall expanded the National Park Service by pre-
siding over the acquisition of 3.85 million acres of 
new 
holdings, 
including 
national 
parks 
(Canyonlands in Utah, Redwood in California, North 
Cascades in Washington State, and Guadalupe 
Mountains in Texas), 6 national monuments, 9 na-
tional recreation areas, 20 historic sites, 50 wildlife 
refuges, and 8 national seashores. 
(10) Stewart Lee Udall established the Bureau 
of Outdoor Recreation to coordinate all Federal out-
door programs. 
(11) In September 1966, as Secretary of the 
Interior, Stewart Lee Udall announced the creation 
of Project EROS, which led the United States to 
state of the art science and technology that includes 
Landsat, the longest running enterprise for acquisi-
tion of satellite imagery. Project EROS began as a 
revolutionary program that utilized Earth-orbiting 
satellites that map the planet to gather data about 
the Earth’s natural resources along with changes in 
weather and climate. 
(12) During his tenure as Secretary of the Inte-
rior, Stewart Lee Udall also became a champion of 
the arts, convincing President Kennedy to invite the 
renowned poet Robert Frost to speak at his inau-
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