14 Facts About Evelle Younger

Evelle Jansen Younger was an American lawyer who served as the California Attorney General from 1971 to 1979.

Evelle Younger was a second cousin twice removed of the Evelle Younger Brothers, a notable 19th-century gang of American outlaws that are often associated with the Jesse James gang.

Evelle Younger was born in Stamford, Nebraska in 1918 and received his law degree from Nebraska University.

At the age of 24, when he was one of J Edgar Hoover's top agents, Younger became a member of CIA forerunner the Office of Strategic Services, serving in the Burma-China-India theater during World War II.

Evelle Younger served in the United States Army during World War II as well as Korea.

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Evelle Younger was a municipal judge in California from 1953 to 1958 and a superior court judge in California from 1958 to 1964, when he became district attorney of Los Angeles County.

Evelle Younger rose to the rank of Major General in the US Air Force Reserve, and was the first to be promoted to the rank of Brigadier General as a Special Agent in the AF Office of Special Investigations.

Early in his career as a judge, Evelle Younger hosted KTLA's weekly crime drama "Armchair Detective, " and was later a consultant and presiding judge on the reality show "Traffic Court" on KABC-TV.

Evelle Younger authored the book Judge and Prosecutor in Traffic Court.

Evelle Younger is the first prosecutor in the United States to prosecute mass felony charges against college campus demonstrators in the 1960s.

Evelle Younger was elected as the 26th Attorney General of California, the first Republican in a generation to do so.

Evelle Younger advocated for a broad interpretation of its applicability, filing a brief in the landmark case Friends of Mammoth v Board of Supervisors in 1972.

Evelle Younger was defeated in the general election by incumbent Jerry Brown.

Evelle Younger died in 1989, and is interred in the Los Angeles National Cemetery in Los Angeles, California alongside his wife, Mildred Eberhard Evelle Younger, who died in 2006.