1938 Los Angeles mayoral recall election

none January 2025 September 2023 1938 Los Angeles mayoral recall election Los Angeles presidential no 1937 Los Angeles mayoral election 1937 1941 Los Angeles mayoral election 1941 1938 09 16 yes Vote on recall 128,727 235,395 364,122 yes Mayoral election by-election Fletcher Bowron, 1930s.jpg c0c0c0 Fletcher Bowron 233,427 64.33% Frank L. Shaw at the Los Angeles County Grand Jury (cropped).jpg c0c0c0 Frank L. Shaw 122,692 33.81% Mayor Frank L. Shaw Fletcher Bowron The 1938 Los Angeles mayoral recall election took place on September 16, 1938, following the recall of incumbent Frank L. Shaw. Shaw was defeated by Fletcher Bowron in the election, making him the first recalled mayor in American history.John R. Babcock, "When Los Angeles Was a World-Class City of Corruption," Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, May 12, 1989, page A-19 Municipal elections in California, including Mayor of Los Angeles, are officially nonpartisan; candidates' party affiliations do not appear on the ballot.https://my.lwv.org/sites/default/files/leagues/los-angeles/structureofacity.pdf LOS ANGELES: STRUCTURE OF A CITY GOVERNMENT League of Women Voters Election Shaw had been accused of corruption in City Hall which led to a recall movement against him and his close associates. Reformers who opposed Shaw and the Los Angeles Times both agreed that Shaw was "building the largest machine in the city's history," choosing Fletcher Bowron, a Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, to run against Shaw.https://www.jstor.org/stable/25158002 The Recall of Mayor Frank L. Shaw: A Revision Viehe, Fred W. California History 1980 290–305 University of California Press 59 4 25158002 https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=IVP19380809.2.59&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- Judge Named on Reform Ticket August 9, 1938 Imperial Valley Press The reformers campaigned for Shaw's recall saying that he did not do enough to stop crime and that he had supposedly committed various crimes during his tenure.https://www.jstor.org/stable/969090 Another Generation of Urban Reformers: Los Angeles in the 1930s 1987 18 3 Oxford University Press Sitton, Tom The Western Historical Quarterly 315–332 10.2307/969090 969090 subscription The recall was approved by voters by a large margin, and Bowron defeated Shaw by a landslide.https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LO19381013.2.2&srpos=11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-------- Formidable Ofensiva del Japón La Primera Autoridad La Opinión October 13, 1938 es Results Los Angeles mayoral recall election, September 16, 1938 235395 128727 Los Angeles mayoral recall election, September 16, 1938Los Angeles Mayor http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=546486 Our Campaigns Fletcher Bowron 233,427 64.33 Frank L. Shaw (incumbent) 122,692 33.81 Alonzo J. Riggs 4,050 1.12 Albert F. Osterloh 2,706 0.75 362,875 100.00 See also LAPD Red Squad Clifford Clinton "The Lid Off Los Angeles" References and footnotes External links Office of the City Clerk, City of Los Angeles https://web.archive.org/web/20110619161306/http://cityclerk.lacity.org/election/ June 19, 2011 collapsed 1938 Los Angeles Los Angeles Mayoral recall election Los Angeles 1938 Category:September 1938 in the United States