Records of the Los Angeles County Medical Association's Coroner's Committee Campaign, 1950-1956.

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Records of the Los Angeles County Medical Association's Coroner's Committee Campaign, 1950-1956.

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The collection contains the material the committee used in running the campaign to get County Charter "D" passed in Los Angeles County. The collection includes campaign reports, correspondence (chiefly by committee chairman Lewis T. Bullock), committee minutes, printed materials, publicity information, applications, and memoranda. There is also material used in the search for the first coroner which includes correspondence between the committee and Theodore J. Curphey, who was eventually hired and became the first Coroner of Los Angeles County in March 1957. There are also manuscripts by Los Angeles County Deputy Coroner Ben H. Brown and Dr. R. B. H. Gradwhol regarding the professional role of a coroner.

152 items.2 boxes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Curphey, Theodore J.

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Brown, Ben Hill, 1914-

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Ben Hill Brown, Jr., was born February 8, 1914 in Spartansburg, South Carolina. He received his A.B. from Wofford College in 1935 and his J.D. from George Washington University in 1939. He was a U.S. State Department official during the Truman administration. Brown died on May 25, 1989. From the description of Brown, Ben Hill, 1914- (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10572797 ...

Los Angeles county medical association

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In 1956, the Coroner's Committee of the Los Angeles County Medical Association ran a campaign to hire a new coroner for Los Angeles County and bring in a medical doctor to fill the position (medical examiner). In order to do this, the Coroner's Committee had to get a Los Angeles County Charter Amendment passed that stated that the Coroner shall be a physician who is a certified pathologist (LA County Charter Amendment "D"). The amendment also separated the office of the Coroner from the Public A...

Bullock, Lewis T., 1906-.

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Gradwohl, R.B.H. (Rutherford Birchard Hayes), 1877-1959

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