John Francis Dockweiler (September 19, 1895 - January 31, 1943) was a U.S. Representative

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 from California

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Biography

John Francis Dockweiler was born in Los Angeles to Isidore Bernard Dockweiler

Isidore B. Dockweiler

Isidore Bernard Dockweiler . Prominent California lawyer and politician from a pioneering Los Angeles family.-Biography:...

 and Gertrude Reeve. Dockweiler attended parochial schools. He graduated from Loyola College, Los Angeles in 1918 and from the University of Southern California

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, Los Angeles in 1921. He attended the law department of Harvard University

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. He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1921, and commenced law practice in Los Angeles in 1922.

Dockweiler was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Seventy-third

73rd United States Congress

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, Seventy-fourth

74th United States Congress

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, and Seventy-fifth

75th United States Congress

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 Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1939). He was not a candidate for renomination in the primaries in 1938, but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination as Governor of California

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. In the general election, he was an unsuccessful Independent candidate for reelection to the Seventy-sixth

76th United States Congress

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 Congress.

He resumed the practice of law. He served as district attorney of Los Angeles County 1940-1943.
He died in Los Angeles, California, January 31, 1943. He was interred in Calvary Cemetery

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(New Calvary Catholic Cemetery) in East Los Angeles.