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Title: Los Angeles County Medical Association's Coroner's Committee campaign records
Inclusive Dates: 1950-1956
Collection Number: mssLACMA coroner committee
Creator OR Collector:
Los Angeles County Medical Association. Coroner’s Committee
Extent:
152 items in two boxes.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: Records from the Los Angeles County Medical Association's campaign to find a new coroner for Los Angeles County.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
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obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item], Los Angeles County Medical Association's Coroner's Committee campaign records, The Huntington Library,
San
Marino, California.
On long-term loan from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.
In 1956, the Coroner's Committee of the Los Angeles County Medical Association ran a campaign to hire a new coroner for Los
Angeles County and bring in a medical doctor to fill the position (medical examiner). In order to do this, the Coroner's Committee
had to get a Los Angeles County Charter Amendment passed that stated that the Coroner shall be a physician who is a certified
pathologist (LA County Charter Amendment "D"). The amendment also separated the office of the Coroner from the Public Administrator.
The committee also wanted to change some policies regarding the Coroner's role and responsibilities in autopsies.
The collection is in the original arrangement done by LACMA.
The collection contains the material the committee used in running the campaign to get County Charter "D" passed in Los Angeles
County. The collection includes campaign reports, correspondence (chiefly by committee chairman Lewis T. Bullock), committee
minutes, printed materials, publicity information, applications, and memoranda. There is also material used in the search
for the first coroner which includes correspondence between the committee and Theodore J. Curphey, who was eventually hired
and became the first Coroner of Los Angeles County in March 1957. There are also manuscripts by Los Angeles County Deputy
Coroner Ben H. Brown and Dr. R. B. H. Gradwhol regarding the professional role of a coroner.
Brown, Ben H.
Bullock, Lewis, T., 1906-1983
Curphey, Theodore J.
Gradwohl, R. B. H. (Rutherford Birchard Hayes), 1877-1959
Los Angeles County Medical Association
Autopsy -- Law and legislation
Coroners -- California -- Los Angeles County
Forensic pathologists -- California -- Los Angeles County
Medical examiners (Law) -- California -- Los Angeles County
Physicians -- California -- Correspondence
California, Southern -- History --20th century -- Sources
Los Angeles County (Calif.) -- Poliics and government
Letters (correspondence) -- California -- 20th century
Report -- California -- 20th century
Manuscripts -- California -- 20th century