Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Fredericks, J. D. 
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Author: Robert J. Burdette (1910)

J. D. FREDERICKS, LOS ANGELES
Born in Pennsylvania in 1869, son of Rev. J. T. Fredericks, a Presbyterian
minister. Classical education at Washington-Jefferson Coll., Pa., and came to
California in 1890. Taught school and read law at Whittier, Los Angeles Co., in
the early nineties and admitted to bar, 1895. Married Agnes M. Blakeley, 1896.
Served in Spanish-American War, 1898. Republicans elected him District Attorney
of Los Angeles Co., 1902; re-nominated by all parties, four years later; has
banished from the county gambling and illegal liquor selling, and has given the
District Attorney's office a strong and fair administration; has made an
exhaustive study of crime and its causes, and suggested important remedies for
many social evils.


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Greater Los Angeles & Southern California
Portraits & Personal Memoranda

ROBERT J. BURDETTE
EDITOR

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO          LOS ANGELES          NEW YORK
1910


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