Frank Lawrence Shaw was the first mayor of a major American city to be recalled from office,in 1938. He was also a member of the Los Angeles City Council and then the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. His administration was seen as one of the most corrupt in Los Angeles history,although he had some defenders and was never charged officially with any crime.
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,known as Charles Randall, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives,the California State Assembly and the Los Angeles City Council. He was the first council member to face a recall election under the present city charter. He was the only Prohibition Party candidate ever elected to Congress,in 1914.
Andrew Boyle Workman was a Los Angeles politician and businessman. He served as President of the Los Angeles City Council and,as such,was acting Mayor on occasion. He was the first city councilman to represent District 4,under the new charter of 1925. He was a candidate for mayor in 1929.
Robert "Cupid" Stewart Sparks (1871–1932) was a Los Angeles City Council member in the 1920s. He was the first person to represent the 5th District under a new city charter effective in 1925. Earlier,he was given the nickname "Cupid" while he managed Los Angeles' marriage licensing bureau for 19 years. Robert,along with his wife,ran an informal matchmaking service throughout Los Angeles County.
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.
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.
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 City Council District 5 is one of the 15 districts of the Los Angeles City Council. District 5 represents Los Angeles communities in the Westside,central-eastern Santa Monica Mountains,and central-southern San Fernando Valley. Katy Young Yaroslavsky is the current council member.
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.
Jim Wilson was a pioneer banker and businessman of the San Fernando Valley who was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1933 to 1941.
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 for San Diego. Incumbent mayor Dick Murphy stood for reelection for a second term.
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 a Los Angeles,California,City Council member who was active in labor-union affairs and state and municipal politics.
