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George H. McLain was a United States Democratic politician from California and an influential pension promoter from the 1930s through the early 1950s.
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George H. McLain was a United States Democratic politician from California and an influential pension promoter from the 1930s through the early 1950s.
McLain began his political career campaigning on behalf of 1934 California gubernatorial candidate Upton Sinclair, before turning to social organizing. He formed a nativist organization called "Natives of California, Inc." in 1936, whose avowed purpose was "to return the government of California to the natives of the state, and keep it there," a reaction to the large number of migrants from the Great Plains who had arrived during the Depression. In the early forties, McLain gained control of an organization that would become the California Institute of Social Welfare and McLain's main platform for political organizing. In 1949, he was accused of bribing state lawmakers, but the case was dismissed the following year by California's Third District Court of Appeals. [1]
After leading a series of ballot proposition campaigns that all failed in the early 1950s, McLain largely retreated from public life, save to run for federal office twice in the early sixties.
McLain is best known for running in California's Democratic presidential primary in 1960. He was the only opponent of the heavily favored favorite son candidate, Governor Pat Brown.
McLain lost to Brown, but, because of the large number of votes cast in California, and the small number of primaries overall, he finished third in total number of votes cast in all Democratic primaries, just behind eventual nominee John F. Kennedy and Brown, even though he ran only in California.
McLain ran unsuccessfully, at various times, for Los Angeles School Board, City Council and Mayorship, the State Assembly and Senate, and California's 23rd Congressional District. He also ran twice for the United States Senate: as a write-in Democrat in 1946 (special election) and for his party's nomination 1964, losing both times.
McLain married three times, with his second marriage to Rose C. McLain ending in a contested divorce in 1961. [2] Circa 1962 he married Elenor Yorke, a poet, to whom he stayed married until his sudden death in 1965. [3]
California special United States Senate election, 1946: [4]
Democratic presidential primary in California, 1960 [5]
Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 1960 [6]
Democratic primaries for U.S. Senate, 1964: [7]
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