Photograph was edited for publication purposes. G. Delbert Morris was born on June 23, 1909. He was elected to the California State Assembly in 1948. Morris was being investigated in connection with a liquor license scandal involving prominent criminal attorney Leonard E. Wilson. The attorney committed suicide while being investigated and in a suicide note, cited Morris as the one who put the blame on Wilson. Morris resigned from the assembly, after having been found guilty and sent to prison for selling state liquor licenses. He died in 1987. Photograph caption dated October 28, 1954 reads "Assemblyman named in ex-judge's death note."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Morris, G. Delbert Legislators--United States Men--California--Los Angeles Portrait photographs Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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