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Asa Keyes (August 9, 1877 – October 18, 1934) was district attorney of
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Asa Keyes (August 9, 1877 – October 18, 1934) was district attorney of Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States and in the U.S. state of California, with 9,861,224 residents estimated as of 2022. It is th ...
from June 1923 until 1928, when he was found guilty of accepting a bribe from the Julian Petroleum Company and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. He was pardoned by Governor James Rolph
James "Sunny Jim" Rolph Jr. (August 23, 1869 – June 2, 1934) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected to a single term as the 27th governor of California from January 6, 1931, until his death on June 2 ...
in August 1933."Asa Keyes Succumbs to Stroke," ''Los Angeles Times,'' page 1. ''(Access to this link may require the use of a library card.)''/ref> Keyes was born August 9, 1877, in
Wilmington, California
Wilmington is a neighborhood in the Harbor region of Los Angeles, California, covering .
Featuring a heavy concentration of industry and the third-largest oil field in the continental United States, this neighborhood has a high percentage of L ...
, and attended the University of Southern California
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, after which he entered the district attorney's office. When Thomas L. Woolwine resigned in June 1923, Keyes stepped into his position. A year later Keyes called upon 87 department employees to resign, and he reappointed only 27 of them to form his new team. During 1924 he caused the average length of a felony trial to be cut from 130 to 51 days.
When he died on October 18, 1934, he left his wife, Lillian, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Mrs. Fred McGuire.
See also
*Ku Klux Klan in Inglewood, California
Ku Klux Klan activities in Inglewood, California, were highlighted by the 1922 arrest and trial of 36 men, most of them masked, for a night-time raid on a suspected bootlegger and his family. The raid led to the shooting death of one of the culpri ...
, for one of Keyes' notable cases
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Keyes, Asa District attorneys in California Lawyers from Los Angeles University of Southern California alumni 1877 births 1934 deaths People from Wilmington, Los Angeles