Background
Walter Holden Capps was born on May 5, 1934, in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. He was the son of Holden Frances and Mildred Linnea (Bildt) Capps.
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Yale Divinity School
U.S. House of Representatives
Santa Barbara, California, United States
University of California
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1990
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Walter Holden Capps was born on May 5, 1934, in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. He was the son of Holden Frances and Mildred Linnea (Bildt) Capps.
Capps obtained master's degree from Yale Divinity School, as well as his Doctor of Philosophy degree.
On May 30, 1997, he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University.
Capps began teaching at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1964, rising to the rank of professor of religious studies by 1973. He also served as a director of its Institute of Religious Studies and of its Robert Maynard Hutchins Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. In addition, Capps developed a curriculum for the school concerning the Vietnam war. He also held teaching positions at London’s Warburg Institute and at Oxford’s Mansfield College. Capps had devoted more than thirty years to teaching religious studies before winning a seat in Congress beginning in 1996.
A Democrat, he beat Republican incumbent Andrea Seastrand in a California district that for fifty years had voted Republican. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 22nd district, from January 3, 1997 till October 28, 1997. He was concerned with issues such as healthcare, assault weapons, environment, human rights violations in China and political campaign reform.
Capps also wrote and edited numerous books, including The Future of Hope, Ways of Understanding Religion, Time Invades the Cathedral, Seeing with a Native Eye, Encounter with Erikson, The Monastic Impulse, New Religious Right, Thomas Merton and The Unfinished War: Vietnam and the American Conscience. An anti-war activist during the 1960s, he later initiated a nationally renowned course titled "Religion and the Impact of Vietnam".
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1983Capps participated on various committees and within numerous organizations. A member of the board of directors with the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, he also served as president of the Council on the Study of Religion and National Federation of State Humanities Councils.
Capps married Lois Ragnhild Grimsrud, on August 21, 1960. They have three children - Lisa Margarit, Todd Holden and Laura Karolina.