John Donnan Fredericks (September 10, 1869 – August 26, 1945) was an American lawyer and politician from Los Angeles, who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1923 to 1927. As District Attorney of Los Angeles, he successfully prosecuted the McNamara brothers for their 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building.
Fredericks was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Z. Osborne.
He was reelected to the Sixty-ninth Congress and served from May 1, 1923, to March 3, 1927.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1926.
Later career and death
In 1915, after serving as District Attorney of Los Angeles, Fredericks founded the law firm of Fredericks and Hanna. The law firm is still in existence today, and is now known as Hanna and Morton LLP.[3] Fredericks died of a heart attack on August 26, 1945. He was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.[1]
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