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    Frank Lawrence Shaw (February 1, 1877 – January 24, 1958) was the first mayor of a major American city to be recalled from office, in 1938. He was also...
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  • Frank Shaw may refer to: Frank H. Shaw (1882–1950), Pennsylvania civil engineer Frank L. Shaw (1887–1957), California politician and mayor of Los Angeles...
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  • nursing teacher Frank L. Shaw (1887–1958), former mayor of Los Angeles, California Frankie Shaw (born 1986), American actress Frederick H. Shaw (1864–1924)...
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    Bryson (1889), Arthur C. Harper (1909), Charles E. Sebastian (1916), and Frank L. Shaw (1938). Los Angeles portal Politics portal Mayor of Los Angeles History...
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    mayor (and later California governor) James Rolph and Los Angeles mayor Frank L. Shaw sported toothbrushes in the 1920s and 1930s, as did Washington state...
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    took place on September 16, 1938 following the recall of incumbent Frank L. Shaw. Shaw was defeated by Fletcher Bowron in the election, making him the first...
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    widely publicized case was depicted in the 2008 film Changeling. When Frank L. Shaw was elected mayor in 1933, he reappointed Davis as police chief, and...
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    wake of the corruption arising from the previous administration of Frank L. Shaw, and earned the reputation of being lawful, unlike his predecessor....
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  • in October 1931 and Jack Dragna took his place as Don. In July 1933, Frank L. Shaw began his term as the Los Angeles mayor. He established a corrupt administration...
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    of business. Dragna and Roselli worked with Joe Shaw (the brother of Mayor Frank Shaw) to muscle out L.A. bookies, many of whom fled to Las Vegas. By 1937...
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  • gangsters moving into the West Coast, combined with the recall of Mayor Frank L. Shaw because of corruption charges related to organized crime, caused law...
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    1932. He ran for re-election twice more but was defeated in 1933 by Frank L. Shaw and in 1941 by Fletcher Bowron. He died of a heart and lung condition...
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    George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political...
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    was chosen by the City Council to succeed Frank L. Shaw, who resigned as 8th District councilman when Shaw won his race for the county Board of Supervisors...
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  • member 1932 recalls of three judges in Los Angeles 1938 recall of Mayor Frank L. Shaw in Los Angeles, California 1995 recall of California State Assemblyman...
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    1938 - This flood precipitated the recall of then-mayor of Los Angeles Frank L. Shaw, leading to calls for flood control measures. The incidents revolving...
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    on April 6, 1937, with a runoff election on May 4, 1937. Incumbent Frank L. Shaw was reelected over Supervisor John Anson Ford in the runoff election...
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    Evelyn Selbie (1871–1950), actress Blanche Sewell (1898–1949), editor Frank L. Shaw (1877–1958), Los Angeles mayor Orfa Jean Shontz (1876–1954), the first...
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    class of officers graduated in 1936. With the replacement of Mayor Frank L. Shaw in 1938, the city gained a reformist mayor in Fletcher Bowron. He forced...
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    Clinton Porter was defeated by Frank L. Shaw, a Los Angeles County Supervisor, in the runoff election. During the election, Shaw's citizenship was questions...
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  • Frank Edward Shaw is a retired professor and the originator of the theory that there was no single original form of writing of the name of God in the...
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    Retrieved March 3, 2016. Viehe, Fred W. (Winter 1980). "The Recall of Mayor Frank L. Shaw: A Revision". California History. 59 (4): 291. doi:10.2307/25158002...
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    auto thefts". Steckel was dismissed as chief by the incoming mayor Frank L. Shaw, who had run on a platform that included calling for Steckel's dismissal...
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    was to serve one of the most corrupt mayors in Los Angeles history, Frank L. Shaw, who had been elected despite the opposition of the Chandler Family...
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  • Summer Olympics held. 1933 March 10: 1933 Long Beach earthquake. June 6: Frank L. Shaw becomes mayor. October 12: Los Angeles Garment Workers Strike of 1933...
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    the first officer being councilman Thomas D. Shepard. Shepard presided when L. E. Timberlake became acting mayor due to mayor Sam Yorty traveling outside...
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  • group's singer. She had one son, Alfred Frank Alonzo Jackson (July 6, 1953 – August 29, 2019). Nelson married Shaw on August 31, 1957, and the couple had...
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    place in 1936 and was attended by Governor Frank Merriam, Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, and Mayor Frank L. Shaw. It opened to the public in 1938, closed...
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    Lee Shaw (1945–2013), a policeman who was part of her security detail during her time on bail. They had two children, Gillian and Lydia Hearst-Shaw. Hearst...
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    Shaw v. Reno, 509 U.S. 630 (1993), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in the area of redistricting and racial gerrymandering. After the 1990...
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