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L. G. CAMPBELL
L. G. Campbell, attorney general of the southern division of California, has long enjoyed high standing in professional ranks as one of the leading lawyers of Los Angeles and this part of the state. A native of Pennsylvania, he was born in the year 1877, a son of Washington and Ann E. (Graham) Campbell. His more advanced educational training was received as a student at Campbell University of Holton, Kansas, and at Valparaiso University of Indiana, the latter institution conferring upon him the degrees of Masters of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the Colorado bar in 1899 and to the Nevada bar in 1907, while three years later, in 1910, he was admitted to practice in California.
Appointed deputy general of California in 1927, Mr. Campbell thus served until he succeeded John W. Maltman as deputy attorney general in charge of the Los Angeles office in 1934, upon the death of Mr. Maltman. Mr. Maltman possessed a keen and brilliant mind and was widely recognized as one of California’s most learned lawyers. Our subject has ably carried forward the work of his distinguished predecessor in the office of attorney general, having already gained for the state many hundreds of thousands of dollars in oil royalties by his successful assertion of California’s claims in a number of important legal contests.
Mr. Campbell is a consistent member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles and fraternally is affiliated with the Masonic bodies, including al Malaikah Temple of Mystic Shrine in this city. He was known as one of the most active representative of Masonry in Nevada, having been Masonic Grand Master in that jurisdiction, and it is with a great deal of pleasure that he recalls his travels in that state in the interest of the craft.
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By: Michele Y. Larsen on June 30, 2013.
Source: California of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty, Page 702, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los
Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2013 Michele Y. Larsen.
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