Oral history interview with Allen Miller, transcript / by Carlos Vasquez, University of California, Los Angeles for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1987.

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Oral history interview with Allen Miller, transcript / by Carlos Vasquez, University of California, Los Angeles for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1987.

Discusses his family background, migration to California, education, service as State Registrar of Contractors during the Culbert L. Olson administration, his law practice with Julian Beck and Parkes Stillwell and career in the California State Assembly, including such areas as legislative reform, leadership, partisanship, fundraising, electioneering, and tidelands oil legislation.

ii, 185 p.

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