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* Fletcher Bowron ( 1887 – 1968 ), Los Angeles mayor and judge
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Poulson's victory in the Los Angeles mayoral race came after a contentious battle in which his opponent, incumbent mayor Fletcher Bowron, claimed that the Los Angeles Times wanted to control city government and, by endorsing Poulson, would have a puppet in the mayor's office.
Bradley served for twenty years as mayor of Los Angeles, surpassing Fletcher Bowron with the longest tenure in that office.
He served as the 33rd Mayor of Los Angeles between 1929 and 1933, and ran for re-election twice more but was defeated in 1933 by Frank L. Shaw and in 1941 by Fletcher Bowron.
Fletcher Bowron ( August 13, 1887 – September 11, 1968 ) was the 35th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, from September 26, 1938, until June 30, 1953.
In the 2011 video game LA Noire, The Mayor is based on Fletcher Bowron and coincides with the name and personality.
The grand jury rejected CIVIC's report, and after seeking the advice of Superior Court Judge Fletcher Bowron ( who had overseen a grand jury that nearly brought down L. A. District Attorney Buron Fitts for corruption ), CIVIC issued a minority report that was only published after Judge Bowron's intervention.
Fletcher and 1887
Later Fletcher helped write, lobbied for and helped administer the Dawes Act of 1887, which broke up reservations and distributed communal land in allotments for individual household ownership of land parcels.
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* 1984 – Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau ( Embassy ) in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy.
* 1952 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
* 2001 – Robert Fletcher Shaw, Canadian civil servant, deputy commissioner general of the Expo 67 ( b. 1910 )
* May 3 – U. S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.
* April 17 – WPC Yvonne Fletcher is shot and killed by a secluded gunman leading to a police siege of the Libyan Embassy in London.
* April 28 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Fletcher Christian leads the mutiny on HMS Bounty against Captain William Bligh.
Fletcher and 1968
* Tristan da Cunha is the site of a top-secret nuclear disarmament conference in Fletcher Knebel's 1968 political thriller Vanished which was adapted into a 1971 two-part NBC made-for-TV movie starring Richard Widmark.
He studied for a doctoral degree at the University of Illinois with Stanley Fletcher and Webster Aitken, obtaining his DMA in 1968.
He went on to obtain his masters degree in international affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1968.
Although his route spans only a little more than 1 / 3 the length of Grand Canyon, Fletcher was only the second person to complete this section and the first to accomplish the feat " in one go " — as chronicled in his bestselling 1968 memoir The Man Who Walked Through Time.
His second book was The Man Who Walked Through Time ( 1968 ), in which Fletcher was the first person to walk a continuous route through Grand Canyon National Park in 1963.
In 1968, Fletcher published the first edition of The Complete Walker, his most popular work including three new editions with the last in 2001, in total selling over 500, 000 copies.
Earlier, she and Alex Metreveli were the first players from the Soviet Union to reach a Grand Slam final when they teamed at Wimbledon in 1968, losing to Margaret Court and Ken Fletcher.
They had two daughters, Alexandra Corliss Brackett ( 1920 – 1968 ) and Elizabeth Fletcher Brackett ( 1922 – 1997 ).
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