Burton Becker

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Burton F. Becker was the police chief of Piedmont, California in the early 20th century. He joined the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan and was elected Sheriff of Alameda County in 1926. He was subsequently tried and convicted on corruption charges, removed from office and sent to San Quentin Prison.

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• Oral History of the Alameda County Sheriff's Department given by Oscar J. Jahnsen, part of the Earl Warren Oral History Project, University of California, Berkeley