Frank Luckel
Republican
| Date | Party | Office | Votes | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11-05-1946 | Republican | AD-78 | 26341 | Win |
| 11-02-1948 | Republican | AD-78 | 63420 | Win |
| 11-07-1950 | Republican | AD-78 | 56671 | Win |
| 11-04-1952 | Republican | AD-78 | 71774 | Win |
| 11-02-1954 | Republican | AD-78 | 38286 | Win |
| 11-06-1956 | Republican | AD-78 | 53890 | Win |
| 11-04-1958 | Republican | AD-78 | 43866 | Win |
| 11-08-1960 | Republican | AD-78 | 57740 | Win |
Candidate Biography:
Born: May 18, 1888 in Los Angeles, CA
Married: Gladys Pennell (in 1913)
Child: Frances Holland
Military Service: USN (WWI, WWII)
Died: December 14, 1974 in San Diego, CA
1937-1941: State Pilot Commissioner, San Diego Harbor
- LEGISLATION: Author of AB 3508 (1953), known as the Luckel Act, which prohibited known Communists from being employed by State Colleges.
- Supreme Court Decision: In June 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a law which had most recently been amended by George G. Crawford, Frank Luckel, Jack Schrade, and Myron H. Frew, AB 2276 (1957), was unconstitutional. The law, which criminalized narcotics addiction, was found to violate the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment. (Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660 (1962)
Source: California Blue Book (1950), (1954), (1961)