Description
Attorney general and district attorney years: campaigns, reorganizing the offices, 1934 constitutional amendments, law enforcement issues, prosecutions; Republican Party activities in the 1930s; Culbert Olson; first term as governor: new ideas in Department of Corrections, mental health services, the 1947 Gas Tax Bill, liquor control, water, land and power issues, and other legislative efforts; Department of Social Welfare, race relations, Japanese Americans, regulating lobbying, the 1948 and 1952 presidential campaigns; the call to the Supreme Court. Appended letters, printed materials, and Warren's views on labor.
See also THOMAS C. BLAISDELL, NORMAN LIVERMORE, WILLIAM MAILLARD, WILLIAM SENNETT, BEN NUTTER and LIONEL WILSON