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Title: John Theryll Knox Papers
Box Number: 2056-2102
Creator:
Knox, John T. (John Theryll), 1924-
Repository:
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language:
English.
Restricted.
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[Identification of item], John Theryll Knox papers, California State Library.
Knox, John T. (John Theryll), 1924-
Legislators--California--Correspondence
California. Legislature. Assembly.
Legislation--California
California--Politics and government--1951-
Knox's legislative files, including letters to and from constituents, related papers,
clippings, pamphlets, study reports, copies of bills introduced into the Assembly by
Knox, excerpted sections of various codes, etc.
John Theryll Knox was born September 30, 1924 in Reno, Nevada to Ernest B. and Jean Monat
Knox. He has lived in California since 1929. He attended public schools in Sacramento and
Alhambra. He served with the United States Air Force 1943-1945. He received an A.B.
degree from Occidental College in 1949, and a J.D. degree from Hastings College of Law in
1952. He married Jean Henderson on December 27, 1949 and they had three children--John
Henderson, Charlotte Marie, and Mary Lucretia. Knox was admitted to the Bar in 1953 and
had a private law practice in Richmond from that date.
He was elected to the State Assembly in a special election, November 8, 1960. In the
Assembly he was elected Speaker Pro Tempore on January 19, 1976, and he was reelected
through the last session he served, 1979-80. He was the Chairman of the Select Committee
on Revision of the Nonprofit Corporations Code; Vice Chairman on the Committee on
Criminal Justice; member of Assembly Committees--Ways and Means, Local Government, Policy
Research Management and Joint Committee on the Revision of the Penal Code. Knox was only
the second first-term Assemblyman to be named to the important Assembly Rules Committee
since 1900, and he was an Ex officio member in his final term. As Chairman of the
Municipal and County Government Committee, he held hearings throughout the State in the
wake of the 1965 tax scandles in order to gather information for the Assessment Reform
measure.
In 1968 he authored a revision of the Corporate Securities Act. In 1969 he was the chief
author of legislation to establish the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development
Commission as a permanent state agency. In 1970 he coauthored a bill to regulate the
franchising industry in California, and he was the principal author of the Environmental
Quality Act. He received the second Annual Bay Area Environment Award of the San
Francisco Bay Area Council for the single most significant contribution to the Bay Area
environment, 1970. He was also a member of such committees as Finance and Insurance,
Select Committee on Environmental Quality and the Joint Committee on National Tax Policy.
Knox retired from the Assembly at the end of the 1979-80 session and joined the San
Francisco office of a Los Angeles based law firm, Nossaman, Krueger & Marsh. The
September, 1982 telephone book for San Francisco lists the firm as Nossaman, Krueger &
Knox. He worked for the firm as an attorney and lobbyist making frequent trips to
Sacramento. In 1981 he was appointed by Governor Brown to the board of directors of the
Hastings College of Law and to the Commission on Uniform State Laws.
- Ames
- Aranda
- Baggio
- Barnes, Gordon & Helen
- Bayless, Corene
- Bennett, Carl
- Butler, Tom
- Campbell
- Cottrell, Alfred
- Cutter, Rhoda
- Farrow
- Flessa
- Harper, James
- Hawks, D. R.
- Hobson
- Humphers, Sarah
- Hurd, Carl
- Jackson, Wallace
- Johnson, Elmer
- Jones, Arthur
- Kahn, Robert
- Lavely, Rohlean
- Levels, Thelma
- Lewis, Pat
- Light, Emily
- Lira, Mary
- Luckey, Samuel
- McCathy, Eugene J., 1916-
- McCoy, Ora
- Magnusson, Vivian L.
- Marino, Ida
- Meday, Horace H.
- Mefford
- Miller, George Jr.
- Mitchell, Leonard
- Nolen, Clye & Hattie
- Pieper, Richard A.
- Pullman Child Development Center
- Purcell
- Read, Elizabeth
- Rivera, Consuelo
- Roberson, Wayne
- Scott, Crawford
- Sheehan, Alyce
- Singleton, Jessie
- Stansbury, Nora
- Thompson, Gerald L.
- Unfiled -Miscellaneous
- Van Hook, Lewis, 1906-
- Whalker, Calvin
- White, Eona E.
- Williams, (Clarice) vs. Blake
- Wright, Elnora
- Zimmer, Mr. & Mrs. George