This collection consists of realia related to the political campaigns of John F. Dockweiler for governor and United States Congressman in 1938.

John Francis Dockweiler was the son of Isidore B. Dockweiler (1867-1947), a noted Los Angeles Democrat and lawyer from a pioneer Los Angeles family. John F. Dockweiler, a lawyer himself, followed in his father's political, Democratic footsteps. He was a Democratic U.S. Congressman (1933-1939) for the sixteenth district of California (Los Angeles), District Attorney of Los Angeles County (1940-1943), and ran unsuccessfully for governor of California in the 1938 Democratic primary. After losing the Democratic primary for governor to Culbert Olson, the eventual winner for the office of California governor, Dockweiler ran an unsuccessful write-in campaign to keep his congressional office. He died in the office of Los Angeles district attorney in 1943.

1 archival document box; 1 map case drawer

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