Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery is a cemetery at 1831 West Washington Boulevard in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles,southwest of Downtown.
Henry T. Hazard was a California pioneer who became a land developer,a patent attorney and mayor of the city of Los Angeles. He gives his name to Hazard Park in Los Angeles.
Alpheus P. Hodges was the first Mayor of Los Angeles,California after the city was incorporated on April 4,1850. However,he was preceded by Stephen C. Foster,who was the first mayor under American rule.
Frederick Alexander MacDougall was the 14th Mayor of Los Angeles,from 1876 to 1878. He was a physician and the first Los Angeles Chief of Police. He died in 1878 in office and Bernard Cohn was appointed to be mayor for only 2 weeks.
The Boyle–Workman family relates to the pioneer interconnected Boyle and Workman families that were prominent in:the history of colonial Pueblo de Los Angeles and American Los Angeles;the Los Angeles Basin and San Gabriel Valley regions;and Southern California from 1830 to 1930 in Mexican Alta California and the subsequent state of California.
JoséCristóbal Aguilar was a Californio politician and journalist,who served three terms as Mayor of Los Angeles,the last Hispanic to hold the office until 2005,with the election of Antonio Villaraigosa.
Stephen Clark Foster was a politician,the first American mayor of Los Angeles under United States military rule. Foster served in the state constitutional convention,and was elected to the State Senate. He was elected as mayor of Los Angeles in 1856,and later elected for four terms to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
Thomas Foster may refer to:
The Lugo family of California were prominent during the periods of Spanish and Mexican rule. They were among the early colonists who became known as Californios.
Karen Ruth Bass is an American politician,social worker and former physician assistant who has served as the 43rd mayor of Los Angeles since 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,Bass previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2022 and in the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010,serving as speaker during her final Assembly term.
Benjamin Hayes, or Benjamin Ignatius Hayes, (1815–1877) was an American pioneer who was the first judge of the district court that served Los Angeles,San Diego and San Bernardino counties in California. His seminal rulings are still cited in that state's courts.
Martin H. Weight was the first Mayor of Pasadena,California elected by popular vote. During his administration,Pasadena's first two parks were established as well as the completion of Pasadena's first City Hall building. Weight ran for re-election in 1903,but lost to William Vedder.
Obed Macy was an American physician and pioneer in Los Angeles County,California,arriving there by wagon train shortly after California became a part of the United States following the Mexican–American War. He and his son Oscar Macy were members of the Los Angeles Common Council,the governing body of that city,and operated one of Los Angeles's historic hotels.
Alexander W. Hope,a physician and druggist,was Los Angeles County sheriff in the 1850s,a state senator,a member of the Los Angeles Common Council and the organizer of the first American law-enforcement group in the city,the forerunner of the Los Angeles Police Department.
William Jefferson Hunsaker (1855–1933) was an American lawyer and politician from San Diego and later Los Angeles,California. Hunsaker was the San Diego County District Attorney from 1882 to 1884,4th Mayor of San Diego from 1887 to 1888 and president of the California Bar Association from 1913 to 1914.
Lewis Cass Granger born in Granville,Ohio,was a member of the Los Angeles,California,Common Council,the legislative body of that city,in 1854. It was he who made a successful motion at the May 4,1854,session that the minutes of the Common Council were thenceforth to be written "in both Spanish and English,on alternate pages." Granger was the Los Angeles city attorney in 1855–1856.
William G. Dryden, usually signed W.G. Dryden, was a 19th-century lawyer who was a judge and effectively the longest-serving city clerk in the history of Los Angeles,California.
The 2017 Los Angeles mayoral election was held on March 7,2017,to elect the mayor of Los Angeles. Due to a change in the city's election calendar to align mayoral elections with statewide elections,the winner stood to serve a term of five years and six months instead of the usual four years.
Reuben Foster was an American politician and lawyer from Maine. Foster,a Republican,served three single-year terms in the Maine House of Representatives and two single-year terms in the Maine Senate (1871-1872). In 1870,he was elected House Speaker and in 1872,he was elected Senate President.
