Otto Johann Zahn was the second person to represent District 10 on the Los Angeles City Council,serving from 1925 until 1927.
Charles Emerson Downs was the first Los Angeles City Council member representing the 10th District after a new city charter went into effect in 1925. He was removed from office after just three months,however,when he was convicted of receiving a bribe from a developer who planned to construct a moving sidewalk in the Second Street Tunnel.
Charles Hiram Randall was an American newspaper publisher and politician in Los Angeles,California. He represented the city in the California State Assembly from 1911 to 1913 and the U.S. House of Representatives from 1915 to 1921. He was the only Prohibition Party candidate ever elected to Congress. He also served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1925 until 1933 and as President of the City Council for his final term from 1931 to 1933. In 1926,he was the first council member to face a recall election under the present city charter.
Ralph Luther Criswell was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for ten years in the early 20th century. He then became a special agent,or lobbyist,for the Colorado River Project that brought water to Southern California.
Joseph F. Fitzpatrick was the first Los Angeles City Council member representing the 13th District after a new city charter went into effect in 1925. He did not finish his term,however,after he was convicted in that year of receiving a bribe from a developer who planned to construct a "moving sidewalk" within the Second Street Tunnel.
Stephen W. Cunningham was the first graduate manager at the Southern Branch of the University of California,later UCLA,and a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1933 to 1941.
The Progressive Party was a political party created as a vehicle for Robert M. La Follette,Sr. to run for president in the 1924 election. It did not run candidates for other offices,and it disappeared after the election. The party advocated progressive positions such as government ownership of railroads and electric utilities,cheap credit for farmers,the outlawing of child labor,stronger laws to help labor unions,more protection of civil liberties,an end to American imperialism in Latin America,and a referendum before any president could lead the nation into war.
The 1934 California gubernatorial election 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,pitting conservative Republican Frank Merriam against former Socialist Party member turned Democratic politician Upton Sinclair,author of The Jungle. A strong third party challenge came from Progressive Raymond L. Haight,a Los Angeles lawyer campaigning for the political center. Much of the campaign's emphasis was directed at Sinclair's EPIC movement,proposing interventionist reforms to cure the state's ailing economy. Merriam,who had recently assumed the governorship following the death of James Rolph,characterized Sinclair's proposal as a step towards communism.
Raymond LeRoy Haight was an American lawyer and politician from California. Involved in the Republican and Commonwealth-Progressive parties,Haight ran as a third party candidate during the 1934 California gubernatorial election.
Los Angeles's 12th City Council district is one of the fifteen districts in the Los Angeles City Council. It is currently represented by Independent John Lee since 2019 after he was elected to finish Mitchell Englander's term. Lee is the only Independent on the nonpartisan City Council,previously being a Republican much like his predecessors.
Roy Laurence Donley was a businessman who became a member of the Berkeley,California,Board of Park Commissioners and then the Los Angeles City Council,from 1931 to 1933.
Howard Woster Davis was a member of the California State Assembly for two years and of the Los Angeles City Council for 16 years. He was indicted on charges of accepting bribes to influence his actions as a city official but was cleared on one count and never tried on the others,which were dismissed.
William Harvey Kindig,was a candidate for California state controller in 1934,Los Angeles City Council member from 1935 to 1937 and a sponsor of the Ham and Eggs movement for old-age pensions in California in 1939.
Thomas W. Williams was a former coal miner,school principal and church minister who was a member of the Los Angeles,California,City Council between 1929 and 1931. He was the first councilman elected under the 1925 city charter to die in office.
James Tilden Carroll in 1933 served 103 days as 12th District member of the Los Angeles City Council to fill out the unexpired term of Thomas Francis Ford,who had been elected to the U.S. Congress the preceding year.
The 2004 San Diego mayoral election was held on Tuesday,November 2,2004 to elect the mayor of San Diego. Incumbent mayor Dick Murphy stood for reelection for a second term.
The California Progressive Party,also named California Bull Moose,was a political party that flourished from 1912 to 1944 and lasted through the 1960s.
The 2018 United States Senate election in California took place on November 6,2018,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent California,concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate,elections to the United States House of Representatives,and various state and local elections.
Fredrick Crissman Wheeler was an American politician. In 1909,he came within "a small plurality" of being elected mayor of the city.
Stephen Bennett is an American activist,educator,and politician serving as a member of the California State Assembly from the 38th district as a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his tenure in the state legislature,he was active in local politics in Ventura,California,and Ventura County,California,with him serving on the city council and board of supervisors.
