Papers, 1938-1976.

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Papers, 1938-1976.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40352539

Collection consists of scrapbooks, clippings, documents, correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, and related material of former Los Angeles mayor Norris Poulson. Includes Poulson's autobiography, The genealogy and life story of Erna and Norris Poulson. Includes materials related to his career as a CA assemblyman, US Congressman, and LA mayor, as well as signed letters and photographs of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, Mayor Fletcher Bowron, Mayor Samuel Yorty, Nikita Khrushchev, Earl Warren, and others.

5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)23 oversize boxes.

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7425393

University of California, Los Angeles

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Poulson, Norris, 1895-1982

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Charles Norris Poulson was born on July 23, 1895; attended Oregon Agricultural College, 1914-15; farmed 1916-23; moved to Los Angeles in 1923; attended Southwestern Univ., 1923-25; began his own accounting business about 1925, passing the CA CPA examination in 1933; was elected and served in the CA State Assembly (1938-42); first elected to the House of Representatives in 1942; served as mayor of LA (1953-61); served as a member of the CA Water Commission (1965-68); he died on Sept. 25, 1982. ...