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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Stephen P. Teale and Don A. Allen Oral Histories on the 1966 Reapportionment of the California Senate #12012-z, Rare Book Literary and Historical Papers, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gift of the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, in February 1983.

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• Allen, Don A.
• Apportionment (Election law)--California.
• California--Politics and government.
• Legislators--California--History--20th century.
• Teale, Stephen P., 1916-
• Voting--California.

Stephen P. Teale was a Democratic California state senator representing Railroad Flat, Calif. Don A. Allen was a Los Angeles assemblyman.

The collection contains transcripts (1980) of interviews conducted by James R. Rowland in 1979 with California state senator Stephen P. Teale and California assemblyman Don A. Allen (Democrat of Los Angeles), key legislators in the design of the reapportionment of the California state senate in 1966. The interviews are related to the volume One Man-One Vote and Senate Reapportionment, 1964-1966 (Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library).