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Oral history interview with Frederick S. Farr : oral history transcript / [1992].
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Oral history interview with Frederick S. Farr : oral history transcript / [1992]Creator/Contributor:
Farr, Fred S. (Frederick S.), 1910-1997, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Lage, Ann, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
State Government Oral History Program (Calif.)Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Farr discusses his education, both formal and informal; his wartime work in Puerto Rico; and his private legal practice in
Monterey County. He depicts the senate and senators during his service from 1955 to 1967. He discusses early environmental
legislation to preserve the mountain lion and sea otter, encourage scenic highways, coordinate state planning, and preserve
Monterey Bay and Lake Tahoe; his support for legislation to outlaw the death penalty during the Caryl Chessman case; and legislation
to aid agricultural workers and fishermen. He outlines his work as coordinator for highway beautification in the Lyndon B.
Johnson administration and as a member of the State Coastal Commission from 1972 to 1979.
Date:
1992 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caLawyers -- California -- Monterey County -- Interviews
Environmental protection -- California
Environnement -- Protection -- Californie
Environmental protection
Lawyers
California
California -- Monterey County
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by Ann Lage ; Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley, for the State Government Oral History Program,
Transcript of an interview conducted October 9, 1987, Carmel, California.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Also available online.
Copyright to all program materials is assigned by the interviewee to both the Secretary of State, California State Archives,
and the program's cooperating institutions. Copies of interview transcripts can be procured from the State Archives. Tape
copies are not made for sale or for distribution outside the Program.
Audio tape recording of interview also available. (Classified as: Phonotape 2666 C:1-4).
Frederick S. Farr was elected to the California State Senate from Monterey County in 1955, following many years as an attorney
in San Francisco and Monterey. The first democrat to represent Monterey County in forty-three years, he authored significant
legislation for environmental protection, state planning, workers protections, and in opposition to the death penalty. Following
his defeat in 1967, he served in the Lyndon B. Johnson administration in Washington, D.C., as national coordinator for highway
beautification and was a member of the California State Coastal Commission from 1972 to 1979.
Type:
Interviews.Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
Transcript: [v], ii, 118 p. ; 29 cm.
4 cassette tapes.
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Copyright to all program materials is assigned by the interviewee to both the Secretary of State, California State Archives,
and the program's cooperating institutions. Copies of interview transcripts can be procured from the State Archives. Tape
copies are not made for sale or for distribution outside the Program.