Oral history interview with Howard J. Thelin : oral history transcript / By Lawrence B. de Graaf, Oral History Program, California State University, Fullerton for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1987.

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Oral history interview with Howard J. Thelin : oral history transcript / By Lawrence B. de Graaf, Oral History Program, California State University, Fullerton for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1987.

Judge Thelin discusses the local organization of the Republican party in the Glendale area, and legislative campaigns and organization in the 1950s. He talks at length about major state legislative issues, especially between 1957 and 1961, and a few of his own personal legislative ideas. He also discusses at length various events that changed the Republican party and California politics in the 1960s.

xv, 200 p. 29 cm.

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Thelin, Howard J., 1921-

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In 1957, Howard Thelin was elected to the California State Assembly from a safe Republican seat in Glendale. He held that office for ten years, during which time both conservatism and the Republican party changed considerably and the legislature enacted much of the Democratic party platform. Defeated in the 1966 Republican senate primary by a more conservative candidate, he was appointed to the municipal court and in 1976 to the superior court, both times by Democratic governors. Fro...

State Government Oral History Program (Calif.)

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Administrative History Documentation of California state government with the use of oral history techniques began in 1969 with the Earl Warren Era Oral History Project. It was initiated by the Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library and "centered on key developments in politics and government administration at the state and county level, innovations in criminal justice, public health, and social welfare from 1928-1953." ...

De Graaf, Lawrence Brooks

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