James Harlan Pope Papers, 1920-1960

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James Harlan Pope Papers, 1920-1960

James Harlan Pope Papers, 1920-1960

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9k4009j5

James Harlan Pope (1885- ) was a reporter in Detroit and Los Angeles before he was admitted to the California bar in 1915. He became the Los Angeles city public defender (1916-23), judge in the police court (1923-26), Municipal Court judge (1926), and presiding judge (1931). He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Los Angeles County Law Library, and a member of the Conference of California Judges. The collection consists of correspondence, a tape recording, papers, scrapbooks, and related ephemera accumulated by Judge Pope on the history of the bench and bar of Los Angeles County. Subjects in correspondence include the dynamiting of the building, the trial of the McNamara brothers, Pope's work as the first public defender in Los Angeles, his career as a newspaper reporter, descriptions of important people, and a description of the first work camp for men serving jail sentences in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times

4 boxes (2.0 linear ft.); 1 oversize box

eng,

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.