'Evelle Jansen Younger' (
June 19 1918-
May 4 1989) was
Attorney General of
California from 1971 to 1979. Prior to that, he was
District Attorney of
Los Angeles County 1964-1971. In 1978, he ran for
Governor of California, but lost to incumbent
Jerry Brown. Younger was a member of the
Republican Party.
Younger served in the
United States Army during
World War II and then became an
FBI agent. He was a municipal judge in California from 1953 to 1958 and a superior court judge in California from 1958 to 1964, when he became district attorney of Los Angeles County.
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Biography on Attorney General site
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IMDB