Stephen W. Downey : California water and power attorney : oral history transcirpt / Stephen W. Downey ; tape recorded interviews conducted in Sacramento, Calif. by Willa K. Baum in October, 1956-January, 1957. Regional Cultural History Project, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1956-19

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Stephen W. Downey : California water and power attorney : oral history transcirpt / Stephen W. Downey ; tape recorded interviews conducted in Sacramento, Calif. by Willa K. Baum in October, 1956-January, 1957. Regional Cultural History Project, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1956-1957 : and related material, 1956-1957.

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Notes on his early life and family; law practice in Sacramento; California State Reclamation Board; various reclamation districts and projects; irrigation districts and their Association; water problems; the legal profession; California politics and politicians (including his brother, Sheridan Downey) Small portrait pasted in.

Transcript : [vi] 316 leaves ; 28 cm. + related material.Copies : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 615:16) and positive.

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Baum, Willa K.

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Willa Klug Baum was a nationally prominent oral historian and long-time director of the Regional Oral History Office at the Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley. She was born in Chicago in 1926, and grew up in Europe and Ramona, California. She graduated from Whittier College, but work and family obligations kept her from completing her Ph.D. in history at Berkeley. Instead Baum joined ROHO as an editor and interviewer, and became head of the program in 1958. During her years as director over 1,600 i...

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Downey, Sheridan, 1884-1961

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Sheridan Downey (b. Mar. 11, 1884, Laramie, Wyo.-d. Oct. 25, 1961, San Francisco, Calif.), lawyer, was a Democratic U.S. Senator from California from 1939 to 1950. From the description of Downey, Sheridan, 1884-1961 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10574300 Biographical Sketch Sheridan Downey was born in Laramie, Wyoming in 1884, the son of Evangeline Victoria (Owen) and Stephen Wheeler Downey. H...