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Jefferson Peyser was a lawyer for the California Wine Institute and a former California state assemblyman. Born in San Francisco in 1899, he graduated from Berkeley Law, formerly known as Boalt Hall, in 1923. Following four years on the city’s Board of Supervisors, he was elected to the California State Assembly in 1934, though he later quit the legislature to become a lobbyist for the San Francisco Council of Commerce in 1939. In addition, Peyser has acted as the general counsel for the Wine Institute since its incorporation in 1934, a process in which he was heavily involved. In this interview, Peyser discusses the formative years of the Wine Institute, fair trade laws, taxes and trade barriers, and his own extensive career in the wine industry. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting the California wine industry.

Title
Jefferson E. Peyser: The Law and the California Wine Industry
Creator
Peyser, Jefferson E., interviewee
Teiser, Ruth, interviewer
Published
Berkeley, CA, Regional Oral History Office, 1974
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Food and Agriculture Oral Histories Individual Interviews
Subject (Topic)
Natural Resources, Land Use, and the Environment
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The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
Note
Peyser, Jefferson E. "Jefferson E. Peyser: The Law and the California Wine Industry." Interview by Ruth Teiser in 1972. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1974.
Interview date(s) 1972
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