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The California gubernatorial election 1934 was held on November 6 1934. Held in the midst of the Great Depression the 1934 election was amongst the most controversial in the state’s political history putting conservative Republican Frank Merriam against former Socialist Party member turned Democrat Upton Sinclair author of The Jungle. A strong third party challenge came from Commonwealth-Progressive Raymond L. Haight a Los Angeles lawyer campaigning for the political center.
