He was a consumer rights activist who led a campaign in California in
1978 for "Proposition 13" which cut property taxes by 57 percent.
Anti-tax activist largely responsible for the passage of property tax bill Proposition 13 in California in 1978, limiting annual property tax increases to 1% per year.
Founded the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association hjta.org.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume
Two, 1986-1990, pages 455-457. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1999.