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Leonard M. Landsborough : ウィキペディア英語版 | Leonard M. Landsborough Leonard M. Landsborough (ca. 1858–1927) was an agriculturist in the Florin, California, area and a member of the California State Assembly. A member of the Populist Party and then a Democrat, he was active in a movement to protect the rights of Japanese farmers in the Sacramento Valley. He resigned from the Assembly after being indicted for malfeasance while he had been a Sacramento County employee. ==Biography== He was born as Leonard Modrahan Landsborough in Australia, probably in 1858, and moved to the United States, where he married Californian Agnes Ethel Rutter, the daughter of James Rutter, a pioneer settler in the Sacramento Valley who was known for the quality of the grapes from his vineyards. There were five children, Thomas R., Amy L., Leonard B., Lloyd and Georgie B.〔(Sidney Perry, May 22, 2006, Ancestry.com )〕〔(Elizabeth Pinkerton, "James Rutter and the Flame Tokay," ''Elk Grove Citizen,'' September 12, 1984, excerpted in James Rutter Middle School website )〕〔(''History of the New California — Its Resources and People,'' Volume II, the Lewis Publishing Company, 1905, Leigh H. Irvine, editor, excerpted in usgennet.org )〕 Landsborough testified in favor of Japanese farmers in California, who were being threatened with legal penalties and, as alien Japanese, were not legally able to own property in the state.To get around this stricture, he told a U.S. Congressional investigative committee in 1920, he had been "purchasing land in his own name" and pledging to hand it over to the U.S.-born children of the immigrants when they became adults.〔(Preston A. Wicker, "Children Born Here Used to Gain Lands for Older Japanese," ''San Francisco Chronicle,'' July 14, 1920, page 1 ) Library card required 〕 He was a member of the American Committee of Justice, which worked against Initiative 1, the Alien Land Law, on the November 2, 1920, California ballot.〔("Fair Play," ''Plumas National Bulletin,'' October 28, 1920 ) Registration required 〕 Landsborough died in Sacramento on March 14, 1927, at the age of 69.〔("Sacramento Pioneer Dies," Associated Press in ''Los Angeles Times,'' March 15, 1927, page 4 ) Library card required 〕
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