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Frank L. Shaw (1877–1958) was the first mayor of a major American city to be recalled from office, in 1938. He was also a member of the Los Angeles City Council and then the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. His administration was seen as one of the most corrupt in Los Angeles history, although he had some defenders and was never charged officially with any crime.〔(''Los Angeles Almanac.'' ) "Although most historical viewpoints paint Shaw's administration as one of the most corrupt in Los Angeles history, a few historians argue that Shaw was never as corrupt as alleged."〕〔(Cecilia Rasmussen, "The City of Angeles Has Had Mayors With Demons," ''Los Angeles Times,'' May 8, 2005, page B-2 ) ". . . he has long been said to have run L.A.'s most corrupt administration."〕〔(John R. Babcock, "When Los Angeles Was a World-Class City of Corruption," ''Los Angeles Herald-Examiner," May 12, 1989, page A-19 ) ". . . municipal corruption in L.A. was world-class."〕〔(Frank L. Shaw, Ex-Mayor, Dies, ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 25, 1958, page 1 ) "Scandals . . . failed to touch Mr. Shaw personally."〕〔(John Waugh, "L.A. Mayors: The Great, Near-Great and Un-Great," ''Los Angeles Times,'' May 25, 1969, page M-16 ) "Mayor Shaw accepted payoffs from racketeers."〕 ==Biography== Shaw, the son of John D. Shaw and Katherine Roche, was born February 1, 1877, in or near Warwick, Ontario. He had a brother, Joseph. The family moved to Detroit, Michigan, then Colorado in the late 1880s and Kansas, before settling in Missouri. He went to public schools in Denver and in Joplin, Missouri. He studied business and then began clerking in a country store in Joplin and soon became a salesman with the Campbell-Redell Wholesale Grocery Company. He remained in the grocery business for thirty years, except when he was briefly with the Ozark Coal and Railroad Company at Fort Smith, Arkansas. As a representative of the Cudahy Packing Company, Shaw moved to Los Angeles in 1909. In 1919 he joined the Haas-Baruch Company in Los Angeles and left it when he was elected to the City Council.〔(''Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors, 1820–1980'' and Los Angeles County records, cited at the county website )〕〔(Los Angeles Public library biography file ) Original sources are given in that file.〕〔(Frank L. Shaw, Ex-Mayor, Dies, ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 25, 1958, page 1 )〕 Shaw's childhood affliction with polio left him with a noticeable limp for the rest of his life.〔 He was married to Cora H. Shires on February 5, 1905, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and in 1909 the couple moved to Los Angeles. They had no children.〔〔 She died in 1951 at the age of 68.〔 At age 76, Frank Shaw was secretly married in Tijuana, Mexico to Dortha Sheehan, age 22, and revealed the fact three years later, in January 1956.〔("Ex-Mayor Frank L. Shaw Reveals Marriage in 1953," ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 12, 1956, page 31 )〕 Shaw was a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the United Commercial Travelers of America, the Los Angeles Athletic and Jonathan clubs, the Presbyterian Church, Masonic Temple 320, the Shriners and the Elks, Moose, Eagles and Maccabee lodges.〔〔 He died of cancer on January 24, 1958.〔 His residence then with Dortha was 101 or 108 West 71st Street,〔〔 in the Florence district.〔(Mapping L.A. )〕 Burial took place in Inglewood Park Cemetery.〔(Findagrave.com )〕 After Shaw's death, a will leaving all of his estate to Dortha Shaw was contested in court by a group of the former mayor's relatives, led by Shaw's niece, Frances S. Lawrence, and his brother, Joseph. A jury sided with the Lawrence claim that Shaw had been unduly influenced by his new wife, but the verdict was not put into effect because all of the parties later agreed to a settlement.〔("Frank Shaw's Widow Loses in Will Lawsuit," ''Los Angeles Times,'' November 13, 1959, page 2 )〕〔("Frank Shaw Relatives Settle Estate Contest," ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 9, 1960, page B-1 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank L. Shaw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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