PETER J. PITCHESS - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 06/18/1962 - HFSID 31662
Sale Price $85.00
Reg. $100.00
PETER J. PITCHESS
The accomplished Sheriff signs this typed letter thanking the recipient for commending
two officers
Typed letter signed: "Peter" as Sheriff, 1p, 8½x11. County of Los Angeles, Office of the
Sheriff, 1962 June 18. To Charles J. Russhon, New York. In part: "Your commendation of
our officers was very much appreciated by me. I have passed your letter along to our Personnel
Bureau and instructed them to determine the identity of these two men so that copies of your
letter may be placed in their performance files…." Peter J. Pitchess (1912-1999) was the 28th
Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After getting his law degree at the University of
Utah, he started his career as a special agent with the FBI where he spent 12 years in
Washington, D.C.; El Paso, Texas; Kansas City, Missouri; and Los Angeles. He rose to head
the criminal investigative section of the Bureau's Los Angeles field office, resigning in
1952. He was elected Sheriff in 1958 and kept the position until 1982. He is credited with
modernizing the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, turning the department into
the sixth-largest police department, and the largest sheriff's department, in the United States.
Lightly creased. Fine condition.
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