John Swingle scrapbook : Berkeley, Calif., City Council election, 1969.

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John Swingle scrapbook : Berkeley, Calif., City Council election, 1969.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74712933

Contains posters, bumper stickers and other campaign materials, newspaper clippings, endorsements, photographs and election results for the Apr. 1, 1969 election for Berkeley City Council. Also includes materials on other canidates Allen Wilson, Wilmont Sweeney and Loni Hancock.

1 v. ; 36 x 32 cm.

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Sweeney, Wilmont

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Wilson, A.D.

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Swingle, John

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John Swingle was appointed to the Berkeley City Council in 1967 and won relection in 1969 for another 2 year term. From the description of John Swingle scrapbook : Berkeley, Calif., City Council election, 1969. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 74712933 ...

Hancock, Loni.

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Berkeley (Calif.). City Council

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City History The City of Berkeley, California was incorporated on April 1, 1878 from two distinct settlements. Much of the area surrounding Berkeley was given the Peralta family as a land grant from the Spanish king in 1820. After the gold rush and California statehood in 1850, the large ranchero should have stayed in the Peralta hands. However, the large ranchero's unoccupied land quickly filled with Americans, using "squatter's rights" or a...