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First and foremost, this was not the origin of the drivers license. There were laws in other states going back to 1904 and possibly earlier which regulated who could operate horseless carriages, and definitely court cases on those laws from well before 1925. Similar early laws were enacted in England and France and probably some other countries.
Incidentally, simultaneous with the quoted California law about a license for drivers for hire, there was enacted another California law requiring a license for people driving themselves in their personal motor vehicles. And, of course, both those 1925 laws have been replaced by newer laws since then.
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