US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-2414
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Text reads in part: Los Angeles City Precinct No. 867. State of California, County of Los Angeles, SS Affidavit of Registration. John D. Shaw, 4630 Melbourne Ave, Architect, 5 feet 9 1/2 inches, Republican. I was born in Canada. I acquired citizenship by a. Decree of Court, December 23 1914, Los Angeles California. [signed] John D. Shaw, 18th day of January, 1932 John D. Shaw was born in Canada, emigrated to the United States with his family in about 1882, and died in about 1891. Connected to Los Angeles Times article, June 1, 1933, and similar stories: Pleas Sent to Capitol, Shaw Citizenship at Crisis, Congressmen Urged to Get a Clearance From Miss Perkins, Counter-Suggestion Made of Quick Naturalization at Los Angeles. …Frank L.Shaw, candidate for mayor of Los Angeles … Lacking proof of citizenship and consequent ability to hold office, Shaw, a native of Canada, has apparently abandoned as hopeless the effort to establish that his father was naturalized as an American citizen and thereby naturalized his then minor son. … Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Shaw, Frank, Historical, Ex. Mayor L.A.
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Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
2909 uclamss_1429_2909 ark:/21198/zz002cm059
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Government Political campaigns--California--Los Angeles Naturalization--United States Citizenship--United States Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958 Shaw, John D., d. 1891 or 2
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