sentences:  Rees was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative James Roosevelt, and re-elected to the five succeeding Congresses (December 15, 1965 – January 3, 1977).He was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976.He served as president of Community Development and Management in San Jose, California.