[2] In 1944, he told of the death of a Japanese soldier he witnessed in the Mariana Islands while his Marine unit was guarding a food supply.

[3]In 1957 Corman, supported by labor and Democratic votes, was elected to a four-year term represent Los Angeles City Council District 7, over Kay Bogendorfer, a Republican.

[4] In that year, this newly established San Fernando Valley district was bounded on the south by Riverside Drive on the east by Coldwater Canyon and Woodman avenues and on the west generally by Balboa Boulevard.

[14] After his Congressional service, he opened a lobbying firm, Corman Law Offices, in Washington, D.C., with a partner, William Kirk.

Corman represented Texas Air Corporation president Frank Lorenzo in his contested takeover of Continental Airlines.

He stopped representing the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare because of its "high-pressure fund-raising methods and alarmist pronouncements.

They had two children, Mary Ann and James C., Jr.[18][16] He was said to be "extremely bright, intensely private and sometimes moody"[19] as well as "a courtly man in a tumultuous time ... with old-fashioned graciousness.