Joseph Claude Shell, Sr. (September 7, 1918 – April 7, 2008) was an American oil producer and lobbyist who represented District 58 (West Los Angeles - the Wilshire area) in the California State Assembly from 1953-1963 and was the Assembly Republican Minority Leader. Shell is best remembered for having unsuccessfully opposed Richard Nixon, in the primary election for Governor of California in June 1962. Shell, however, contended that Nixon actually opposed him, for Shell had been committed to the governor's race for a year before Nixon's own entry.
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| - Joseph Claude Shell, Sr. (September 7, 1918 – April 7, 2008) was an American oil producer and lobbyist who represented District 58 (West Los Angeles - the Wilshire area) in the California State Assembly from 1953-1963 and was the Assembly Republican Minority Leader. Shell is best remembered for having unsuccessfully opposed Richard Nixon, in the primary election for Governor of California in June 1962. Shell, however, contended that Nixon actually opposed him, for Shell had been committed to the governor's race for a year before Nixon's own entry.
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| - Bakersfield, Kern County, California
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| - Barbara Morton Shell
Mary Katherine Jaynes Shell
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| - Shell said that Watergate proved that Nixon was unsuited to have been the leader of the Republican Party.
- Though he lost his high-profile race for the 1962 Republican gubernatorial nomination to former Richard Nixon, Shell was an important player among the conservative grass roots wing of the California Republican Party.
Shell planned to run for governor again in 1966, but conservatives coalesced behind Ronald Reagan, who unseated the Democrat Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Sr.
Shell took a leading role in procuring the election of his second wife, Mary K. Shell, as the first woman mayor of Bakersfield.
Shell was a football star for the University of Southern California Trojans championship team in 1939 and played in two successful Rose Bowl games.
Shell was an advocate of American energy independence and a lobbyist on behalf of the oil and natural gas industries.
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| - La Conner, Skagit County, Washington, USA
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| - David Morton Shell of Elk Grove
- Diane Shell Morton of Alamo
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Barbara Stone of Whittier
- Geoffrey Richard Hosking of Bakersville
- Harold Shell of San Ramon
- Joseph Shell, Jr., of Dana Point
- Lynn Shell of Porterville
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| - Joseph Claude Shell, Sr. (September 7, 1918 – April 7, 2008) was an American oil producer and lobbyist who represented District 58 (West Los Angeles - the Wilshire area) in the California State Assembly from 1953-1963 and was the Assembly Republican Minority Leader. Shell is best remembered for having unsuccessfully opposed Richard Nixon, in the primary election for Governor of California in June 1962. Shell, however, contended that Nixon actually opposed him, for Shell had been committed to the governor's race for a year before Nixon's own entry. Shell is also remembered for his work in the early 1960s in locating additional water sources to sustain the growth of California in the future.
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