Buron Fitts

Buron Rogers Fitts (born March 22, 1895 in Belcherville , Montague County , Texas , † March 29, 1973 in Tulare County , California ) was an American politician . Between 1927 and 1928 he was lieutenant governor of the state of California.

Career

After studying law at the University of Southern California , Buron Fitts was admitted to the bar in 1916. During the First World War he served in the American armed forces in France , where he was wounded. He was later a member of the American Legion veterans organization . From 1920 he worked for the Los Angeles County District Attorney . Politically, he joined the Republican Party . In June 1928 he participated as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City , on which Herbert Hoover was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In 1926, Fitts was elected Lieutenant Governor of California to succeed Arthur Breed at the side of CC Young . He held this office between January 4, 1927 and his resignation on December 4, 1928. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate . His resignation came because he had been appointed special attorney to investigate and prosecute allegations of bribery against his former supervisor Asa Keys, who was a Los Angeles County District Attorney. Fitts was successful and won a conviction from Keys. At the same time, Fitts himself was appointed district attorney. He held this office until 1940. There were several allegations of bribery, of which he was acquitted again and again. One of the cases he was investigating was the mysterious death of director Paul Bern . In this case, too, there were rumors and speculations about cover-ups, but these could never really be proven or refuted. In 1930 Fitts ran unsuccessfully for governor of California. In March 1937, an assassination attempt was carried out on him, in which he was wounded. During World War II , Fitts served as a major in the United States Army Air Corps . On March 29, 1973, he shot himself dead in his Tulare County home.

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SURNAME	Fitts, Buron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fitts, Buron Rogers (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Belcherville , Texas
DATE OF DEATH	March 29, 1973
Place of death	Tulare County , California