Clemence B. Horrall | |
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 Horrall in the 1930s | |
| Born | (1895-09-24)September 24, 1895 |
| Died | October 4, 1960(1960-10-04) (aged 65) |
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| Country | United States |
| Department | Los Angeles Police Department |
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Clemence Brooks Horrall (September 24, 1895 – October 4, 1960) wasLos Angeles Police Departmentchief of police from June 16, 1941, when he succeededArthur C. Hohmann to serve as the 41st chief of the L.A.P.D., to June 28, 1949, when he resigned under pressure during a grand jury investigation ofpolice corruption.[1] Clemence Brooks Horrall was born inWashington,Indiana and graduated fromWashington State University. Horrall had become chief when Hohmann, under pressure from Los Angeles MayorFletcher Bowron, voluntarily took a demotion to deputy chief after he had become ensnared in a police corruption trial that had embarrassed the mayor.[2]
During his tenure as chief many significant events occurred that would shape Los Angeles during the decade of the 1940s, when the population of the city proper surged from 1.5 million to nearly 2 million people. Events such asWorld War II,Japanese-American relocation andinternment (seeJapanese American internment), theZoot Suit Riots of 1943 and theBlack Dahlia homicide in 1947 roiled the city, as did theBrenda Allen vice scandal of 1948–49 that led to Chief Horrall's resignation after it was found that officers involved with the Hollywood madamperjured themselves under oath duringgrand jury testimony, as did Horrall himself. He resigned in 1949, succeeded by Marine Major GeneralWilliam A. Worton.[3]
Clemence Horrall died in 1960 from aheart attack and was buried inForest Lawn Memorial Park, byHollywood Hills.
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