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EVELLE J. YOUNGER
District Attorney

1964-1971

District Attorney Evelle J. Younger

Evelle J. Younger

A former war-time intelligence agent becomes District Attorney for two terms.

Evelle Younger was an FBI Special Agent after law school and served with Army Intelligence in India during World War II. Following the war, he was a deputy Los Angeles city attorney and the first City Prosecutor for the City of Pasadena.

In the 1950s he became a judge, first of the municipal court in 1950, then superior court  in 1958.

During his terms as District Attorney, he opened branches of the office in Norwalk and Van Nuys and reorganized the office bureaus. In 1967, Younger created the Special Investigations Division. Complex, headline-grabbing cases that were prosecuted on his watch included the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy, the Manson Family murders and the Watts Riots.

In 1970, he was elected state Attorney General. In 1978 he ran an unsuccessful campaign to become governor of California.

Reprinted from FOR THE PEOPLE -- Inside the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office 1850-2000 by Michael Parrish. ISBN 1-883318-15-7