Oral history interview with Gordon H. Winton, Jr., 1986-1987 : oral history transcript /By Enid H. Douglass, Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1987.

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Oral history interview with Gordon H. Winton, Jr., 1986-1987 : oral history transcript /By Enid H. Douglass, Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1987.

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This interview details Gordon Winton's background: family, education, World War II service, professional work as a lawyer, and service as a local school board member. The focus of the interview is his ten years of service in the Assembly. He describes the style of Luther Lincoln and Ralph Brown as speakers, as well as his relations with Jesse M. Unruh and the contest for the speakership in 1961. He discusses his role in psassing legislation in the fields of education and criminal procedure particularly. He recounts the service to him of Rose Elizabeth Bird (later chief justice of the California State Supreme Court) as a Ford Foundation intern.

[iii], v, 295 p. 29 cm.

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Winton, Gordon H., 1913-

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Gordon H. Winton, Jr., a native of Merced, California and a practicing attorney there, was elected to the California State Assembly in 1956 and served through 1966. His terms were under the speakerships of Lincoln, Brown, Unruh; Winton was the only assemblyman to challenge Unruh openly for the speakership in 1961. He was active in these committees: Agriculture, Criminal Procedure, Education, Government Organization, Municipal and County Government, and Ways and Means. He was closely associated w...

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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." ...

Douglass, Enid Hart

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