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J. B. Sanford was a California State Senator representing the 4th Senate District and served as Chairman of the Democratic Caucus during the 1911 legislative session. He was one of the most prominent legislative opponents of women's suffrage in California. Sanford authored the official ballot argument against Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 8 (Proposition 4). In it, Sanford argues that women should not be granted the right to vote because suffrage is a privilege rather than an inherent right. He asserts that political involvement would distract women from their primary domestic duties, disrupt traditional gender roles, and ultimately harm the family structure. Furthermore, he claims that men already adequately protected women's interests in government and that granting women the vote would lead to increased social instability.
Date: June 24, 1911
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Correspondence from Earl Warren (by Warren Olney) to Major Lemeul B. Schofield regarding a request for use of the Immigration and Naturalization Service's alien registration records in legal proceedings to enforce the Alien Land Laws
Date: March 3, 1942
