List of Los Angeles municipal election returns
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This is an incomplete list of Los Angeles municipal election returns. In general, they are the semiofficial returns as provided to the public by the city clerk's office. The list does not include municipal judgeships, Board of Education races, boards of freeholders nor propositions, which can be found in the sources cited.
Owen McAleer
(Rep.) 14,293 (elected) / Snyder (Dem.) 10,949
City Clerk
Lelande (Rep.) 16,426 (elected) / Murphy (Dem.) 7,544
Treasurer
Myers (Rep.) 11,273 (elected) / Workman (Dem.) 13,613
Auditor
Schwaebe (Rep.) 13,409 (elected) / Plant (Dem.) 7.907
Engineer
Stafford (Rep.) 16,634 (elected) / Viole (Dem.) 7,234
Street superintendent
Hanley (Dem.) 17,461 (elected) / Werdin (Rep.) 7.379
Assessor
Evan Lewis (Rep.) 13,109 (elected) / Barham (Dem.) 10,518
City attorney
Mathews (Rep.) (unopposed and elected)
Tax and license collector
Johnson (Rep.) (unopposed and elected)
Ford (Rep.) 1,220 (elected) / Nickel (Dem.) 881
2nd
Hammon (Rep.) 1,435 (elected) / Falconer (Dem.) 1,126
3rd
Hilier (Rep.) 1,520 (elected) / Foy (Dem.) 991
4th
Summerland (Rep.) 2,191 (elected) / Irvine (Dem.) 1,841
5th
Smith (Rep.)1,598? (elected) / No opponent
6th
Howton (Ind.) 2,143 (elected) / Scholl (Rep.) 1,621 / Weber (Dem.) 802
7th
Kern (Dem.) 1.821 (elected) / Fullway (Rep.) 1,272
8th
Healy (Rep.) 640 (elected) / Savage (Dem.) 599
9th
Blanchard (Rep.) 1,301 (elected) / No opponent
Mayor George Alexander
85,492 (elected) / Job Harriman
51,423
City Attorney John W. Shenk 84,370 (elected) / Edward W. Tuttle 49,773
City Auditor John S. Meyers 83,842 (elected) / George W. Downing 49,176
City Assessor Walter Mallard 83,102 (elected) / A.M. Salyer 50,119
Council members J.J. Andrews 82,834 (elected, 4 years) / M.F. Betkouski 83,076 (elected, 4 years / R.M. Lusk 82,958 (elected, 4 years) / F.C. Langdon 81,210 (elected, 4 years) / Charles McKenzie 79,323 (elected, 2 years) / H.W. Reed 78,107 (elected 2 years) / John Topham 73,540 (elected, 2 years) / F.J. Whiffen 78,383 (elected, 2 years) / George Williams 78,784 (elected, 2 years). Unelected runners-up not shown here; see source for details.
Charles Edward Sebastian 46,498 (elected) / Whiffen 41,989
City Council
Eight men and one woman were elected: Fred C. Wheeler 57,232 / M.F. Betkouski 50,552 / J.S. Conwell 49,667 / F.C. Langdon 45,915 / Robert T. Brain 43,392 / Estelle Lawton Lindsey
41,437 / Foster C. Wright 37,029 / W.A. Roberts 36,536 / John Topham 31,339
Mayor
Frederick T. Woodman
(elected) / Meredith P. Snyder
/ Charles E. Sebastian
Auditor
John S. Myers (reelected) / C.H. Knapp / Louise Auerbach
City attorney
Albert Lee Stephens (reelected) / Warren L. Willliams
City Council
Sixty-four men and four women were in the May primary: Seventeen men and one woman were chosen for the final vote in June. They were Estelle Lawton Lindsey
19,214 / Fred C. Wheeler 18,024 / J.S Conwell 17,877 / Neal P. Olsen 16,776 / Walter Mallard 15,096 / Frederick C. Langdon 15,212 / Henry H. Lyon 14,452 / John B . Powell 12,845 / Foster C. Wright 13,085 / Ralph Luther Criswell
11,930 / Albert B. Conrad 11,755 / John B. Reeves 11,282 / Martin F. Betkouski 11,093 / W.A. Roberts 10,977 / O.P. Conway 10,991 / Frank L. Cleaveland 10,914 / A.D. Houghton 10,807 / Bert L. Farmer 10,458. Otto J. Zahn, with 7,417 votes, was a future City Council member who did not make the cut.
Seventeen men and one woman were in the June final election. Nine men were elected. They were Walter Mallard 60,617 / Neal P. Olsen 60,009 / O.P. Conaway 50,863 / J.S. Conwell 49,980 / Albert B. Conrad 49,970 / Bert L. Farmer 49,075 / Frank L. Cleaveland 48,247 / Ralph Luther Criswell
45,356 / John B. Reeves 44,962. The runners-up were John B. Powell 42,709 / Henry H. Lyon 41,127 / A.D. Houghton 40,699 / Foster C. Wright 31,547 / Frederick C. Langdon 31,264 / Martin Betkouski 31,222 / Estelle Lawton Lindsey
28,891 / Fred C. Wheeler 28,487 / W.A. Roberts 27,270.
Meredith P. Snyder
23,368 (nominated) / Frederick T. Woodman
19,504 (nominated) / Weaver 13,864 / Williams 4,316 / Irene Smith 1,516 / Small 116
Auditor
John S. Myers 42,815 (reelected) 42,815 / Morehouse 10,288
City attorney
Burnell 21,791 (nominated) / James 11,511 (nominated) / Metcalf 10,163 / Burks 7,194 / Layng 1,887
City Council
The following eighteen people were nominated to run in the June election: Bert L. Farmer 31,114 / Boyle Workman
26,503 / Langdon 22,679 / Fred C. Wheeler 22,023 / (W.J.?) Sanborn 20,811 / Fleming 19,923 / Ralph Luther Criswell
19,068 / Mallard 18,295 / Cleaveland 16,326 / Conaway 16,210 / Braunton 16,001 / Seward 15,098 / Conrad 14,739 / Purcell 13,499 / Reeves 13,094 / Olsen 13,092 / True 12,886 / Houghton 11,406.
Mayor
Meredith P. Snyder
(elected) / Frederick T. Woodman
City attorney
Burnell (elected) / James
City Council
The following nine men were elected: Boyle Workman
/ Bert L. Farmer / Ralph Luther Criswell
/ Sanborn / Langdon / Fleming / Mallard / Wheeler / Conaway.
Meredith P. Snyder
33,378 (nominated) / George E. Cryer (nominated) 30,854 / Boyle Workman
12,982 / William L. Smith 1,469 / Alfred A. Wright 512 / Hayden Morgan 325
Auditor
John S. Myers 40,301 (elected) / Chester C. Ashley 13,027 / B.E. Morehouse 9,082 / Michael Weisz 2,570
City attorney
Jess E. Stephens 61,619 (elected)
City Council
Walter Mullard 34,595 (nominated) / O.P. Conaway 29,653 (nominated) / Ralph L. Criswell 28,778 (nominated) / F.C. Langdon 28,113 (nominated) / F.C. Wheeler 27,801 (nominated) / E.J. Delorey 25,123 (nominated) / F.L. Cleaveland 24,576 (nominated) / Benjamin Bogardus 22,485 (nominated) / W.J. Sanborn 22,197 (nominated) / W.C. Mushet 20,699 (nominated) / Robert M. Allan 20,218 (nominated) / A.B. Conrad 19,750 (nominated) / F.H. True 18,930 (nominated) / Ida W. Darling 18,946 (nominated) / Robert Stewart Sparks
18,296 (nominated) / Edward Roberts 12,312 (nominated) / W.A. Roberts 11,210 (nominated) / W.C. Steele 10,628 (nominated) / Frank Purcell 10,010 / Emma B. Swindell 9,526 / Henry A. Hart 9,495 / J.M. Edwards 8,616 / George P. Mills 8,512 / Titus Alexander 8,487 / James Shackleford 7,993 / J.W. Toms 7,929 / Thomas M. Coughlin 7,548 / John B. Franklin 7,635 / Frank Blair 6,949 / Rosa Smith 6,407 / Harry Loomis 6,179 / Oscar C. Zahn 5,869 / C.M. O'Leary 5,742 / L..J. Wright 5,489 / Frank Shannon 5,423 / Cassius E. Bly 5,222 / W.H. Sanders 5,108 / J.L Seamans 4,471 / W.J. Thompson 4,182 / E.B. Harris 3,563 / J.E. Parish 3,187 / Irving A. Mandell 3,137 / Harry S. Fish 3,003 / Julius Levitt 2,787
George E. Cryer 37,510 (elected) / Meredith P. Snyder
33,411
City Council
Robert Stewart Sparks
27,215 (elected) / Ralph Luther Criswell
26,854 (elected) / Walter Mallard 26,374 (elected) / W.C. Mushet 24,690 (elected) / Winfred J. Sanborn
24,682 (elected) / F.C. Langdon 24,605 (elected) / Robert M. Allan
24,469 (elected) / O.P. Conaway 24,331 (elected) / F.C. Wheeler 23,975 (elected) / E.J. Delorey 23,334 / F.L. Cleaveland 22,875 / Benjamin Bogardus 22,452 / Ida Works Darling 21,306 / A.B. Conrad 20,024 / F.H True 19,285 / W.C. Steele 15,421 / Edward Roberts 14,353 / W.A. Roberts 14,247
7,175 / Hancock 3,306 / Knapp 725
Auditor Myers 60,977 (elected) / Wright 16,061
City attorney Stephens 73,860 (elected)
City Council Criswell 11,583 (nominated) / Mallard 10,120 (nominated) / Allan 38,918 (nominated) / Sanborn 36,191 (nominated) / Mushet 35,137 (nominated) / Boyle Workman
34,526 (nominated) / Robert Stewart Sparks
26,971 (nominated) / Edwin Baker 26,615 (nominated) / Miles S. Gregory 23,695 (nominated) / Wheeler 22,418 (nominated) / Charles J. Colden
24,217 (nominated) / Wardlaw 19,959 (nominated) / Wallace G. Oaks 165,659 (nominated) / Robert T. Brain 14,119 (nominated) / Isaac F. Hughes 12,698 (nominated) / Glen MacWilliams 12,327 (nominated) / C.W. Clegg 10,806 (nominated) / Irwin W. Camp 10,330 (nominated) / A.L. Colby 9,883 / Marian Tracie Whiting 9,779 / Titus Alexander 9,637 / Eugene W. Brown 9,244 / Greely Kolts 8,660 / Fred Frank 8,648 / Coughlin 8,483? / Wright 8,412? / William Edwards 8,280 / Charles H. Wood 7,466? / Bernard Goss 7,452 / James G. King 7,431? / Lewis E. Bishop 7,2?5 / Booker T. Washington Jr. 6,752 / William Charlton 6,522 / Charles G. Weickman 6,431 / George T. Jeffers 6,401 / Philip Jacobson 6,350 / Arthur V. Tyler 6,318 / Beaumont 5,746 / M.A. Shuster 5,642 / James Brown 5,545 / C.B. Conlin 4,866 / L.C. Dodelan 3,918 / Harris 3,899 / George E. Killmer 3,683 / J.D. Huddle 2,482 / Anson B. Edgerly 2,158 / Edward C. Primus 1,934
Robert M. Allan
50,909 (elected) / Boyle Workman
50,356 (elected) / Mallard 49,880 (elected) / Criswell 49,661 (elected) / Winfred J. Sanborn
45,745 (elected) / Mushet 40,898 (elected) / Gregory 37,089 (elected) / Wheeler 35,500 (elected) / Baker 34,942 (elected) / Charles J. Colden
34,670 / Robert Stewart Sparks
34,458 / Wardlaw 33,411 / Isaac F. Hughes
24,013 / Oaks 23,550 / Brain 21,331 / Clegg 17,313 / Camp 16,309 / MacWilliams 15,954
George E. Cryer 82,188 (reelected) / Benjamin F. Bledsoe 67,722 / Miles S. Gregory 9,540 / Edgar McKee 300 / E.J. Rindler 332 / Ralph L. Knapp 229
Controller
John S. Myers
64,049 (nominated) / W.C. Mushet 47,447 (nominated) / Arthur Eldridge 26,913
City attorney
Jess E. Stephens 129,461 (reelected)
Charles T. Wardlaw 3,106 (nominated) / Charles H. Randall 2,851 (nominated) / Edgar Lampton 1,593 / Arthur M. Fellows 627 / Clara L. McDonald 328
2nd
Robert M. Allan
6,262 (reelected) / Harry D. Brown 3,179 / Milton L. Garrigus 1,426 / Victor M. Clark 1,070
3rd
Edwin O. Loucks 2,945 (nominated) / Isaac F. Hughes
2,729 (nominated) / Irwin W. Camp 1,373 / William La Plante 1,140 / Fred H. Leavitt 972 / Arthur O. Parker 883 / Arthur St. Claire Perry 735 / Frank Shannon 651 / H. Bernard Abbott 637 / William Vinson McCoy 510
4th
Boyle Workman
5,489 (reelected) / Henry Kraemer 2,817 / Charles D. Ray 2,275
5th
R.S. Sparks
3,282 (nominated) / John Topham 2,324 (nominated) / Willard E. Badham 2,239 / Robert P. Sheldon 1,148 / Charles C. Weickman 898 / G.W. James 652 / W.H. Elliott 252 / Frederick G. Topp 63
6th
C.W. Clegg 3,555 (nominated) / Edward E. Moore
, 3,061 (nominated) / Bert L. Farmer, 3,045 / B.A. Byrne 784 / Sarah Hawley 703 / H.J. Grimes 552 / Harry B. Lady 278 / Nathan Nagel 271 / E.A. Crandall 270 / Paul Lade 97
7th
Ralph Luther Criswell
3,436 (nominated) / Howard W. Davis
2,216 (nominated) / George F. Ryan 925 / S.B.W. May 657 / Edgard J. Nagle 467 / Eldon C. Rookledge 236
8th
Evan Lewis 1,445 (nominated) / Frank L. Shaw
1,383 (nominated); Greely Kolts 1,136 / George F. Gillett 1,100 / Harry F. Burke 1,014 / Bruce A. Nelson 731 / James M. Alexander 567 / Arne A. Nordskog 539 / W. F. Vellage 491 / Herbert J. Raymond 391 / George D. McClellan 358 / Edward R. Kerns 258 / James R. Gentry 211 / Benjamin S. Lauder 194 / David S. Reynolds 185
9th
Winfred J. Sanborn
4,578 (reelected) / Thomas L. Dodge 2,119 / Bruce M. John 751 / W.G. Browning 656 / Fred W. Kahlert 290 / W.S. Maharg 114
10th
Mark A. Pierce 2,302 (nominated) / Charles E. Downs
1,722 (nominated) / Joseph J. Meyers 1,394 / P.M. Abbott 1,131 / George A. Bell 712 / A.B. Jamison 236
11th
F.C. Langdon 2,172 (nominated) / Peirson M. Hall
1,636 (nominated) / George W. Rochester 912 / Frank H. Mouser 886 / Sidney W. Neighbors 573 / Marcus S. Casenave 468 / Alfred A. Wright 382 / Arch L. Mitchell 307
12th
A.J. Barnes 2,812 (nominated) / E.J. McCully 2,068 (nominated) / Clarence W. Horn 1,684 / Leslie R. Saunders 1,619 / J.L. Edwards 863 / Lin William Price 717 / Amos L. Colby 571 / W.H. Hartman 99
13th
Joseph L. Pedrotti 1,887 (nominated) / Joseph F. Fitzpatrick 1,510 (nominated) / Fred W. Fuller 1,476 / Carl Ingold Jacobson
1,459 / John E. Arnold 1,459 / Bearl Sprott 968 / Edward J. Kelly 677 / E. M. Stewart 505 / James C. Borton 464 / Thomas M. Coughlin 365
14th
Edwin Baker 4,526 (nominated) / I.C. Ash
4,374 (nominated) / Charles S. Lamb 1,091; W.A. Roberts 963 / Elsie G. Collins 651
15th
Charles J. Colden
4,324 (nominated) / James H. Dodson Jr. 2,501 (nominated) / Henry E. Carter 1,808 / E.M. Reimiller 1,173 / George I. Maxwell 269 / Charles B. Minter 191 / Edward Harris 70
Charles H. Randall 4,292 (elected) / Charles T. Wardlaw 3,719
2nd
Isaac F. Hughes
4,981 (elected) / Edwin O. Loucks 2,714
5th
R.S. Sparks
4,379 (elected) / John Topham 3,075
6th
Edward E. Moore
5,237 (elected) / C.W. Clegg 4,656
7th
Ralph Luther Criswell
3,477 (elected) / Howard W. Davis
2,482
8th
Frank L. Shaw
3,546 (elected) / Evan Lewis 2,616 / George F. Gillett 1,410
10th
Charles E. Downs
2,972 (elected) / Mark A. Pierce 2,726
11th
Peirson M. Hall
3,079 (elected) / Frederick C. Langdon 1,936
12th
A.J. Barnes 3,970 (elected) / E.J. McCully 3,016
13th
Joseph F. Fitzpatrick 3,722 (elected) / Carl Ingold Jacobson
3,710 / Joseph L. Pedrotti 2,405
14th
I.C. Ash
6,364 (elected) / Edwin Baker 4,202
15th
Charles J. Colden
4,750 (elected) / James H. Dodson Jr. 4,596
Charles Randall
4,691 (elected) / John E. Lambert 2,596 / Frank W. Berkshire 1,676 / Clara McDonald 233
2nd
Arthur Alber
4,980 (elected) / Robert M. Allan
2,399 / J.F. Anderson 155
3rd
Ernest L. Webster
1,734 (nominated) / Isaac F. Hughes
2,089 (nominated) / John M. Pratt 805 / De Vier Ely 786 / J.C. Barthel 498 / Williams 432 / William Vinson McCoy 298 / E.W. McGill 175
4th
William M. Hughes
3,286 (elected) / Boyle Workman
2,883
5th
Virgil A. Martin
3,153 (nominated) / Robert Stewart Sparks
2,214 (nominated) / Charles D. Strickler 1,571 / John Topham 1,362 / Alma Nordstrom 475 / Tupper S. Malone 342
6th
Edward E. Moore
4,757 (nominated) / Lester R. Rice-Wray
2,642 (nominated) / Bert L. Farmer 2,579 / Thomas H. Hanna 1,421 / Bradford D. Bauens 243
7th
Howard W. Davis
3,305 (elected) / Ralph Luther Criswell
2,468 / George W. Grimmer 432 / A. Kreling 162
8th
Frank L. Shaw
3,785 (elected) / James R. Gentry 1,822 / William F. Vellage 400
9th
Winfred J. Sanborn
3,241 (elected) / M.T. Poling 1,706 / Jon Grand 427
10th
E. Snapper Ingram
1,298 (nominated) / John G. Todd 1,060 (nominated) / Otto J. Zahn 1,002 / George D. Hutchison 951 / Joseph J. Meyers 811 / P.M. Abbott 451 / J.A. Bristow 202
11th
Peirson M. Hall
2,874 (elected) / H.E. Binkley 1,009 / Frank H. Mouser 981
12th
Official recount: Douglas Eads Foster
3,628 (nominated) / Clarence W. Horn 1,921 (nominated) / A.J. Barnes 1,912 / R.M. Angier 219
13th
Carl Ingold Jacobson
4,585 (elected) / William M. Byrne 3,162 / William Rudolph 522 / James G. King 259 / Oscar W. Odell 138 / John E. Arnold 109 / Albert G. Sloan 107
14th
William G. Bonelli
5,760 (elected) / Harrie R. Collins 1,392 / Andrew S. Wilson 1,251 / A.H. Nickel 584 / Harold P. Fetter 566 / Karl F. Schweitzer 501 / Helga M. Qually 457 / Robert E. Parrott 199
15th
Charles J. Colden
5,661 (elected) / Reimiller 1,372 / Edwards 1,322 / Cox 646 / Maginnis 365 / Chais 212 / Anderson 164
Ernest L. Webster
9,608 (elected) / Isaac F. Hughes
2,386
5th
Virgil A. Martin
7,843 (elected) / Robert Stewart Sparks
2,889
6th
Lester R. Rice-Wray
8,327 (elected) / Edward E. Moore
4,757
10th
E. Snapper Ingram
3,746 (elected) / Todd 2,855
12th
Douglas Eads Foster
5,319 (elected) / Horn 3,012
For the recall of Council Member Lester R. Rice-Wray
10,168 (recalled) / against 5,872
In the election to succeed Rice-Wray: James G. McAllister
8,168 (elected) / Lester R. Rice-Wray
5,776 / Frank Jones 2,375
John C. Porter 75,198 (nominated / William G. Bonelli
45,200 (nominated) / John R. Quinn 39,425 / Perry H. Greer 22,022 / William La Plante 8,182 / Charles J. Colden
4,331 / Carlin G. Smith 3,550 / Nicholas B. Harris 3,503 / Lloyd S. Nix 2,361 / Boyle Workman
2,057 / Charles Hopper 207 / Ralph L. Knapp 188 / Adam C. Derkum 179 / David Horsley 73
Controller
John S. Myers
129,251 (elected) / John R. Gaudin 28,729
City attorney
Erwin P. Werner 82,094 (nominated) / Peirson M. Hall
(nominated) 61,226 / Donald M. Keith 33,698 / Leslie H. Kranz 4,794
Charles Randall
4,734 (nominated) / W.C. McColl 2, 247 (nominated) / Charles G. Young 1,346 / Truitt W. Hughes 1,025 / Estelle M. Holman 384
2nd
Thomas E. Cooke 7,486 (elected) / P.W. Croake / 1,814 / Milton H. Withers 1,314 / Robert D. Clarke 851 / Jesse McComas 656
3rd
Ernest L. Webster
7,800 (elected) / J. Walter Kays 3,875 / Albert J. Chotiner 2,037
4th
Robert L. Burns 4,312 (nominated) / William M. Hughes
3,313 (nominated) / Neal P. Olsen 1,752 / Willard G. Thorpe 1,560
5th
Virgil A. Martin
5,397 (nominated) / S. DeVier Ely 2,856 (nominated) / Joseph Oberwise 1,886 / Byron B. Brainard 1,623 / U.S. Frye 818
6th
James G. McAllister
6,676 (elected) / John A. Westrom 1,980 / Charles K. Elliott 1,165 / George A. Lynch 744 / H.J. Grimes 575 / Thomas F. Franklin 554
7th Howard W. Davis
6,408 (elected) / E.J. Nagle 2,447 / Charles L. Ryan 1,285 / George W. Grimmer 1,022 / Willis W. Fuller 903
8th Evan Lewis 2,743 (nominated) / James Gentry 1,932 (nominated) / J.W. Toms 1,873 / Harold F. Marsden 1,786 / Harry F. Burke 1,784 / C.R. McFadden 888 / L.B. Bueter 537 / William T. Connor 391 / Peter Casserly 293 / Don Lake 179
9th
Winfred J. Sanborn
4,356 (nominated) / Frank Belcher (nominated) 2,655 / John Veith 1,520 / Lester M. Steele 1, 118 / John Grand 341
10th
E. Snapper Ingram
6,073 (elected) / George Underwood 3,045 / William J. Durm 1,304 / G.S. Mattern 573 / H.N. Witt, 356
11th
Lester R. Rice-Wray
3,054 (nominated) / J.C. Barthel
1,757 (nominated) / Edward A. Gerety Sr. 1,749 / Alfred A. Newton 1,482 / John T. Connelly 1,398 / Thomas F. Padden 1,277 / Nora O. Weaver 1,085 / Thomas H. Hanna 916 / Arthur Hirschhorn 675 / A.V. Dedrick 458
12th
Douglas Eads Foster
5,219 (nominated) / Thomas W. Williams 3,168 (nominated) / J. Stanley Farlinger 1,708 / Frank E. Fensch 1,535 / William N. Wenning 1,423 / William Francis Ireland 866
13th
Carl Ingold Jacobson
7,039 (elected) / Leslie R. Saunders 1,872 / Bearl Sprott 1,564 / Frederick W. Ferguson 815 / William B. Ferguson 624 / Walter L. La Pointe 602 / Wayne C. Stewart 276
14th
Charles A. Holland
5,326 (nominated) / Sherrill H. Osborne 2,687 (nominated) / Edward L. Thrasher 1,733 / Earl S. Parker 1,311 / James E. Long Sr. 1,182 / Lee R. Williams 1,064 / Ernest D. Snow 802 / Oscar Fifer 768 / J.E. Bambaugh 349 / Donald W. Spooner 257
15th
James E. Dodson Jr. 2,903 (nominated) / A.E. Henning
2,780 (nominated) / Frank McGinley 2,745 / C.F. Sampson 2,144 / Edward Kosin 500 / Wilmer E. Bromley 391 / Arthur L. Frazee 159
John C. Porter 151,905 (elected) / William G. Bonelli
106,515
City attorney
Erwin P. Werner 152,566 (elected) / Peirson M. Hall
82,444
Charles Randall
8,529 (elected) / McColl 7,375
4th
Robert L. Burns
7,763 (elected) / Hughes 6,599
5th
Virgil A. Martin
9.039 (elected) / Ely 7,490
8th
Evan Lewis 8,119 (elected) / Gentry 7,380
9th
Winfred J. Sanborn
7,396 (elected) / Belcher 5,550
11th
J.C. Barthel
11,410 (elected) / Lester R. Rice-Wray
6,637
12th
Thomas W. Williams 9,461 (elected) / Douglas Eads Foster
8,234
14th
Charles A. Holland 10,838 (elected) / Osborne 7,975
15th
A.E. Henning
8,666 (elected) / Dodson 7,500
Charles Randall
5,856 (elected) / William C. McColl 3,732 / Frank W. Rice 888
2nd
Thomas F. Cooke
2,716 (nominated) / James M. Hyde
2,618 (nominated) / Henry G. Lyman 1,962 / Edward L. Davin 587
3rd
Ernest L. Webster
5,021 (nominated) / James Stuart McKnight 4,081 (nominated) / Abram C. Denman 2,028 / D.W. MacMillan 317
4th
Robert L. Burns
3,607 (nominated) / H.Z. Osborne 2,601 (nominated) / A.J. Spencer 659 / Leonard O. Hall 468 / A.E. Raessler 147
5th
Virgil A. Martin
2,954 (recount, nominated) / Roy Donley
1,766 (recount, nominated / Byron B. Brainard
1,745 (recount, failed) / Frank J. Waters 1,584 / Joseph Oberwise 977 / Robert Stewart Sparks
321 / Sidney A. Wilson 304 / Victor E. Breul 119
6th
James G. McAllister
4,540 (elected) / Charles L. Clark 2,141 / Claude R. Read 1,591 / Oliver K. Jones 243 / George I. Hughes 217
7th
Howard W. Davis
4,466 (elected) / Ralph L. Criswell 2,995 / Edward J. Nagle 908 / George Grant 462
8th
Evan Lewis 3,627 (nominated) / John S. Horn 1,713 (nominated) / James R. Gentry 1,480 / Ernest E. Debs
430 / Harry F. Burke 410 / L.B. Bueter 389 / Daniel J. O'Mara 227 / Thomas De Fabries 117
9th
Winfred J. Sanborn
3,044 (nominated) / George W.C. Baker 2,868 (nominated) / Frank Belcher 2,014 / William W. Busic 1,118 / John Vieth 814 / John W. Greenwood 332 / Sam Shulem 191
10th
E. Snapper Ingram
3,336 (nominated) / George Underwood 2,598 (nominated) / George A. Pendleton 1,745 / George A. Bell 545 / Joseph F. Curran 438
11th
J.C. Barthel
1,958 (nominated) / Clarence E. Coe
1,535 (nominated) / Louis L. Goodman 1,456 / Charles H. Treat 1,126 / Edward J. Morgan 1,010 / Thomas F. Padden 839 / Edward A. Gerety Sr. 723/ Arthur Johnson 587 / John B. Young 539 / Glen Ingles 483 / Sidney A. Cherniss 378 / Stanley Sayer 362 / Philip Baldwin 124 / Lester R. Rice-Wray
120 / T.S. Aisbitt 55
12th
Thomas Francis Ford 4,236 (nominated) / Douglas Eads Foster
3,136 (nominated) / Miles S. Gregory 2,424 / Lyndon R. Foster 379 / Daniel Ballmer 293
13th
Carl Ingold Jacobson
3,802 (nominated) / Henry E. Holbrook 1,141 (nominated) / A. Judson Samis 978 / Joseph Napolitano 972 / Leslie R. Saunders 827 / H.J. O'Neill 658 / Claude C. Brooks 612 / Roy Hampton
555 / Andrew G. Vaughn 164 / Joseph Despart 142 / Florence E. Gilmour 73
14th
Charles A. Holland
4,903 (nominated) / Edward L. Thrasher
2,654 (nominated) / Thomas L. Doherty 1,938 / A.E. Nelson 1,075 / W.K. Dowan 1,091 / Joseph Reece 602 / Emmett L. Pickerel 45
15th
A.E. Henning
5,604 (nominated) / Frank McGinley 5,490 (nominated) / Alick W. Anderson 444 / Fred C. Hermann 254
James M. Hyde
5,258 (elected) / Thomas F. Cooke
4,861
3rd
James Stuart McKnight 7,866 (elected) / Ernest L. Webster 6,687
4th
Robert L. Burns
5,399 (elected) / Henry Z. Osborne 5,093
5th
Roy L. Donley
5,671 (elected) / Virgil A. Martin
5,510
8th
Evan Lewis 7,241 (elected) / John S. Horn 3,701
9th
George W.C. Baker (elected) 6,881 / Winfred J. Sanborn
6,019
10th
E. Snapper Ingram
5,807 (elected) / George Underwood 4,891
11th
Clarence E. Coe
5,460 (elected) / Charles W. Dempster 4,444 / J.C. Barthel
3,621
12th
Thomas Francis Ford 8,315 (elected) / Douglas E. Foster 5,882
13th
Carl Ingold Jacobson
6,424 (elected) / Henry E. Holbrook 5,070
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
7,569 (elected) / Charles A. Holland
7,009
15th
A.E. Henning
9,611 (elected) / Frank McGinley 8,213
Frank L. Shaw
118,775 (nominated) / John C. Porter (nominated) 111.540 / George E. Cryer 36,193 / Charles W. Dempster 35,285 / Charles S. Hutson 10,639 / Frank C. Shoemaker 5,339 / Chaim Shapiro 4,702 / Martin C. Neuner 3,511 / George H. McLain
2,354 / Lawrence Ross 2,311
Controller
John S. Myers 169,561 (elected) / James C. Quinn 95,702
City attorney
Ray L. Chesbro 155,335 (elected) / Erwin P. Werner 140,827
Jim Wilson
4,958 (nominated) / Charles H. Randall (nominated) 4,889 / Mark C. Sutton 3,653 / Sterling Martin 1,661 / George C. Audet 1,074 / Ray A. Schafer 950 / George Mozee 835 / George E. Menner 728 / Harry E. Beatty 485
2nd
James M. Hyde
5,629 (nominated) / Leon N. Raab 3,922 (nominated) / William C. Harvey 2,886 / Harry B. Leonard 2,263 / E.D. Horkheimer 1,101
3rd
Stephen W. Cunningham
7,016 (nominated) / James S. McKnight 2,884 (nominated) / R.L. Joyner 2,028 / Albert Jack Chotiner 1,572 / Robert Bonner 1,120 / Paul V. Parker 900 / George A. Heap 893 / Harry W. Boles 830 / Vance Evans 403
4th
Robert L. Burns
8,446 (elected) / H.Z. Osborne 5,068 / P.F. Jordan 1,417 / Julius Krieger 1,162
5th
Roy L. Donley
8,618 (nominated) / Byron B. Brainard 6,090 / Virgil A. Martin 4,305
6th
James G. McAllister
8,528 (nominated) / Earl C. Gay
3,820 (nominated) / Lee D. Matthews 2,960 / Harry E. Defty 2,724 / J. Earl Scott 1,371 / Charles Hopper 1,084
7th
Howard W. Davis
9,361 (elected) / Bert L. Farmer 3,386 / Alex Salot 1,417 / C.C. Terzo 1,061
8th
Evan Lewis 7,074 (nominated) / James R. Gentry 5,322 (nominated) / Jacob Massion 4,438 / Ezra W. Chase 516
9th
George W.C. Baker 11,855 (elected) / Winfred J. Sanborn
4,122 / H.A. Weiner 2,715 / James Scofield 1,663
10th
E. Snapper Ingram
7,886 (elected) / Thomas D. Long 6,423
11th
Clarence E. Coe
4,711 (nominated) / Charles Winchester Breedlove
1,884 (nominated) / Arthur Johnson 1,718 / L.l. Goodman 1,510 / Ted E. Felt 1,221 / G.N. Kirkman 1,183 / G.C. Baker 995 / J.G. Levenson 926 / J.C. Barthel 570
12th, unexpired term of Council Member Thomas Francis Ford
James T. Carroll
8,224 (elected) / George W. Scott 6,651
12th, full term
John W. Baumgartner
9,253 (nominated) / Charles A. McNeill 5,356 (nominated) / Miles S. Gregory 3,988
13th
Darwin W. Tate 6,081 (nominated) / Carl Ingold Jacobson
5,624 (nominated) / James E. Keogh 2,659 / R.V. McClain 860 / Henry Reichard 427
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
8,624 (nominated) / L. Roy Williams 6,116 (nominated) / Thomas L. Doherty 3,461 / William Authorson 827
15th
A.E. Henning
5,905 (nominated) / Franklin P. Buyer 3,481 (nominated) / F.O. Adler 3,348 / N.A. Smith 1,351 / Gus H. Homer 855 / Irvin G. Lewis 828 / George H. Nixon 761
Frank L. Shaw
187,053 (elected) / John C. Porter 155,513
Jim Wilson
15,693 (elected) / Charles Randall
8,375
2nd
James M. Hyde
10,474 (elected) / Leon N. Raab 9,813
3rd
Stephen W. Cunningham
15,698 (elected) / James Stuart McKnight 5,582
5th
Byron B. Brainard
13,163 (elected) / Roy Donley
10,499
6th
Earl C. Gay
12,131 (elected) / James G. McAllister
11,856
8th
Evan Lewis 12,953 (elected) / James R. Gentry 12,129
11th
Charles Winchester Breedlove
11,275 (elected) / Clarence E. Coe
9,082
12th
John W. Baumgartner
13,894 (elected) / C.A. McNeill 9,343
13th
Darwin William Tate
14,043 (elected) / Carl Ingold Jacobson
7,823
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
14,675 (elected) / L.R. Williams 9,997
15th
Franklin P. Buyer 11,354 (elected) / A.E. Henning 10,290
1st
Jim Wilson
7,940 (nominated) / Barclay W. Bradley (EPIC) 6,533 (nominated) / John H. Fritz 1,782 / Donald W. Moore 1,144 / George Salisbury 382
2nd
James M. Hyde
(EPIC) 6,346 (nominated) / Edmund R. Bohan 6,346 (nominated) / William D. Neil 2,443 / Frank H. Greer 946 / James Quinn 927 / Carleton Bainbridge 510
3rd
Stephen W. Cunningham
10,701 (elected) / James M. Carter (EPIC) 4,687
4th
Robert L. Burns
9,056 (elected) / G. Howard Fenton 2,375 / Roy Wheeler (EPIC write-in) 1,478
5th
Byron B. Brainard
8,687 (nominated) / Charles W. Dempster (EPIC) 6,590 (nominated) / Dan Crowley 846 / Martin B. Kugler 722 / Eleanor Savay 665
6th
Earl C. Gay
8,256 (nominated) / Lottie Barkow (EPIC) 3,706 (nominated) / Andrae B. Nordskog 1,497 / Louis E. Ottie 1,320 / L.E. Orr 990 / Charles N. Rapfogel 916 / Harry E. Defty 688 / Douglas J. Hamilton 618 / Charlie Hopper 401 / Charles E. Fergason 394
7th
Will H. Kindig
(EPIC) 5,514 (nominated) / Dwight Baker 3,927 (nominated) / Homer Crutchfield 2,674 / Horace A. Wilson 1,336 / John J. Marstellar 364
8th
Evan Lewis 7,438 (nominated) / Arthur P. Moran (EPIC) 4,119 (nominated) / Jack Massion 3,313 / Leo S. Tilley 2,234 / Earl Heller 705
9th
Parley Parker Christensen (EPIC) 5,542 (nominated) / George W.C. Baker 5,437 (nominated) / Winfred J. Sanborn
2,071 / Jack Y. Berman 1,909 / William L. Cummings 1,607 / Karlton I. Pidgeon 1,031 / Howard E. Dorsey 689 / R.E. Lucatoria 666 /
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
(EPIC) 5,974 (nominated) / E. Snapper Ingram
5,810 (nominated) / Karl F. Euper 899 / Allan M. Rose 703 / Austin L. Tournoux 387 / Lenna G. Walradt 371
11th Unexpired term of Charles Winchester Breedlove
Robert S. MacAlister
6,190 (elected) / Arthur Johnson 2,193 / Charles W. Hooper 1,902 / Jack J. Casson 1,186
11th Full term
Robert S. MacAlister
4,267 (nominated) / Howard B. Rose (EPIC) 3,961 (nominated) / J.W. O'Connor 1,426 / Charles W. Hooper 1,401 / Arthur Johnson 1,312 / Louis L. Goodman 1,143 / Alfred Watterson 896 / Jack J. Casson 472 / Edward W. McGill 464 / David MacFarlane 362 / H. Clarke Trigg 344 / Fred W. Bentine 118
12th
John W. Baumgartner
(EPIC) 10,676 (elected) / Charles A. McNeill 5,823 / Harry Lee Jones (write-in) 213
13th
Darwin William Tate
9,164 (elected) / Rube Borough (EPIC) 5,429 / James E. Moore 1,182 / Sam D. Barry 522 / Clarence H. Bright 506 / Walter R. Mozee 251
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
7,889 (nominated) / Royal M. Davis (EPIC) 3,343 (nominated) / L. Roy Williams 3,039 / Harold P. Fetter 1,855 / Lewis C. Martyn 898 / Frank J. Rogers 883 / Harmond B. Amacker 828 / Robert E. Rose 769
15th
Edwin G. Gettins (EPIC) 5,629 (nominated) 5,629 / Franklin P. Buyer 5,407 (nominated) / Royal S. Riddle 2,073 / Frederick O. Adler 1,882 / John T. Rawls 1,422
Jim Wilson
11,109 (elected) / Bradley W. Barclay 8,952
2nd
James M. Hyde
7,652 (elected) / Edmund R. Bohan 7,234
5th
Byron B. Brainard
11,260 (elected) / Charles W. Dempster 8,585
6th
Earl C. Gay
12.244 (elected) / Lottie E. Barkow (EPIC) 6,955
7th
Will H. Kindig
8.077 (elected) / Dwight Baker 7,597
8th
Evan Lewis 10,395 (elected) / Arthur P. Moran 8,964
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 11,114 (elected) / George W.C. Baker 9,695
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
8,794 (elected) / E. Snapper Ingram
8,064
11th
R.S. MacAlister 9,499 (elected) / Howard B. Rose 7,515
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
12,921 (elected) / Royal M. Davis 7,439
15th
Franklin P. Buyer 9,051 / Edwin G. Gettins 8,392
Frank L. Shaw
104,481 (nominated) / Ford 77,703 (nominated) / McDonough 40,526 / Wirsching 15,764 / Nordskog 4,833 / Shoemaker 2,142
Controller
Hoye 134,713 (elected) / Collins 41,367 / Cox 22,500
City Attorney
Chesebro (elected) 116,647 / Taplin 76,912 / Cryer 19,205 / Hubbard 8,501 / Moidel 4,885
Jim Wilson
8,948 (elected) / Robinson 2,769 / Quesinberry 2,489
2nd
Norris J. Nelson 4,603 (nominated) / James M. Hyde
4,227 (nominated) / Quinn 1,354 / Alberti 1,353 / Quigley 660
3rd
Stephen W. Cunningham
8,043 (elected) / Burke 2,350
4th
Robert L. Burns
8,333 (elected)
5th
Byron B. Brainard
9,683 (elected) / Roy Donley
3,591 / Merrill 1,971
6th
Earl C. Gay
10,284 (elected) / Crahan 1,287 / Deegan 1,569
7th
Howard W. Davis
8,010 (elected) / Will H. Kindig
6,705
8th
Evan Lewis 7,913 (elected) / Massion 2,646 / Crosswhite 1,175 / Rees 1,004 / Smith 606 / Quinn 184
9th
Howard E. Dorsey
4,017 (nominated) / Jack Y. Berman 2,450 (nominated) / Armstrong 2,295 / Bowman 2,110 / Winfred J. Sanborn
1,989 / Peterson 1,952 / Farrow 1,081 / Pritchard 730 / Briggs 661 / Wainess 592 / Sheinart 241 / Koehler 131
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
8,065 (elected) / McLain 5,306
11th
R.S. MacAlister 7,849 (elected) / Voigt 3,742 / J.C. Barthel
1,319
12th
John W. Baumgartner
9,679 (elected)
13th
Darwin William Tate
10,085 (elected) / Johnson 4,812
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
10,406 (elected) / Rose 7,113
15th
Franklin P. Buyer 7,511 (elected) / Draper 4,337 / Nixon 1,460 / Gallagher 901 / Fisher 692
Frank L. Shaw
169,848 (elected) / John Anson Ford
144,079
James M. Hyde
9,161 (elected) / Norris J. Nelson 8,981
9th
Howard E. Dorsey
12,636 / Jack Y. Berman 10,651
236,525 (approved) / Opposed 129,245
For mayor Fletcher Bowron
233,427 (elected) / Frank L. Shaw
122,692 / Alonzo Jehiel Riggs 4,050 / Albert F. Osterloh 2,706
10,009 / Opposed 14,336 (defeated)
Jim Wilson
8,446 (nominated) / Delamere Francis McCloskey
4,249 (nominated / Everett G. Burkhalter
3,904 / C. Oscar Leach 1,473
2nd
Norris J. Nelson
9,632 (elected) / James M. Hyde
4,287
3rd
Stephen W. Cunningham
6,794 (elected)
4th
Robert L. Burns
7,356 (elected) / Harry H. Ferrell 2,707
5th
Byron B. Brainard
6,815 (nominated) / Arthur E. Briggs
5,715 (nominated) / Ralph S. Armour 1,799 / Ed J. Ryman 332 / Fred Chapman 282
6th
Earl C. Gay
7,132 (nominated) / Chelene V. Eckerson 4,749 (nominated) / Doyle D. McClurg 1,078 / Tom Howard 931 / Dan C. Egan 698 / Orvin A. Koch 577 / Harry E. Defty 493
7th
Leon H. Washington Jr. 5,011 (nominated) / Carl C. Rasmussen
3,402 (nominated) / Howard W. Davis
3,049 / M.T. Faulkes 1,756 / Ray West 1,242 / Edward J. Nagle 974 / Scott Weller 604 / John R. Edwards 507 / Everett K. Miller 291 / Jay W. Swander 161
8th
Evan Lewis 7,864 (elected) / Andrew C. Pereboom 2,168 / Robert Hyde 1,630 / Gene Flint 1,278
9th (unexpired term of Howard E. Dorsey
)
Winfred J. Sanborn
6,548 (nominated) / Parley Parker Christensen 5,404 (nominated) / George W.C. Baker 2,007 / Waldo D. Rios 1,797
9th (full term)
Winfred J. Sanborn
5,023 (nominated) / Parley Parker Christensen 3,886 (nominated) / Jack Y. Berman 3,088 / Harry J. Raymond 2,130 / John B. Pelletier 2,074 / George W.C. Baker 1,511 / Waldo D. Rios 1,200
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
9,526 (elected) / Willard E. Badham 2,192 / Solly F. Smith 1,620 / Allan M. Rose 804
11th
Robert S. MacAlister
5,489 (nominated) / Harold Harby
4,593 (nominated) / Edgar C. Steeves 2,618 / Ted E. Felt 688 / J.C. Barthel
402
12th
John W. Baumgartner
6,262 (nominated) / Samuel W. Yorty 4,729 (nominated) / Ralph H. Gray 4,684
13th
Frank Merrill 3,292 (nominated) / Roy Hampton
3,215 (nominated) / Grover C. Johnson 3,000 / Carl Ingold Jacobson
2,483 / David P. Vienna 2,122 / Mildred Gilmore 1,050 / H. Raymond Campbell 614 / Harry W. Francis 439
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
8,650 (elected) / George Knox Roth 5,633 / Charles A. Self 1,042 / John J. Reltano 825 / Harry Clay Swift 646 / James N. Rankin 442
15th
Franklin P. Buyer 4,726 (nominated) / Wilder W. Hartley
3,074 (nominated) / Fred Reaves 2,567 / Ben Wood 998 / Clarence E. Harrison 758 / Leonard R. Davison 684 / W.A. Gallagher 546 / Benjamin M. Bendat 506 / William H. Wilson 498 / Edward Kosin 428 / J.C. Holland 289
Jim Wilson
11,786 (elected) / Delamere F. McCloskey 11,574
5th
Arthur E. Briggs
11,276 (elected) / Byron B. Brainard
9,281
6th
Earl C. Gay
11,867 (elected) / Chelene V. Eckerson 11,386
7th
Carl C. Rasmussen
13,928 (elected) / Leon H. Washington Jr. 9,575
9th (unexpired term of Howard E. Dorsey
)
Parley P. Christensen
11,450 (elected) / Winfred J. Sanborn
10,471
9th (full term)
Parley P. Christensen
12,168 (elected) / Winfred J. Sanborn
10,783
11th
Harold Harby
11,151 (elected) / Robert S. MacAlister
8,651
12th
John W. Baumgartner
10,508 (elected) / Samuel W. Yorty 9,766 / R.H. Gray 393
13th
Roy Hampton
11,830 (elected) / Frank Merrill 9,243
15th
Wilder W. Hartley
11,973 (elected) / Franklin P. Buyer 8,461
Fletcher Bowron
146,006 (nominated) / Stephen W. Cunningham
(nominated) 57,009 / Kramer 30,067 / Porter 28,605 / Shaw 24,101 / Husband 9,198 / Rossitto 1,964 / Thayer 1,433
City attorney
Chesebro 199,922 (elected) / Allen 51,676 / Maine 11,628
Controller
Hoye 138,992 (elected) / Cassidy 73,053 / Abbott 41,061
Jim Wilson
9,264 (nominated) / Delamere F. McCloskey (nominated) 5,156 / Charles E. Cook Jr. 4,969 / Kingdon H. Hicks 828 / Charles L. Davies 766 / Frank Di Cristina 628
2nd
Norris J. Nelson
10,119 (elected) / Taylor 3,667
3rd
Paul V. Parker 6,136 (nominated) / J. Win Austin
5,360 (nominated) / Burke 2,329 / Litzenberg 681 / Offutt 603
4th
Robert L. Burns
12,061 (elected) / Melham 2,282
5th
Arthur E. Briggs
7,313 (nominated) / Ira J. McDonald
6,242 (nominated) / Raymond 3,049 / Merrill 1,741 / Witman 610
6th
Earl C. Gay
11,238 (elected) / Eckerson 8,186
7th
Carl C. Rasmussen
8,123 (nominated) / Howard W. Davis
5,928 (nominated) / Ferry 1,238 / Motter 1,003
8th
Charles A. Allen 6,417 (nominated) / Massion 6,200 (nominated) / Rees 2,260 / Crosswhite 1,317
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 8,718 (nominated) / Waxman 4,817 (nominated) / Mathews 2,672 / Fife 1,488
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
8,287 (elected) / Smith 3,806 / Van Dame 1,071
11th
Harold Harby
8,722 (elected) / Shimp 2,332 / Baldwin 1,854 / Appleton 1,635
12th
John W. Baumgartner
9,990 (elected) / Gray 4,926 / Honeycombe 1,179 / Kushner 1,028
13th
Roy Hampton
11,182 (elected) / Borough 5,428 / Jacobson 3,176
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
9,987 (nominated) / Roth 6,977 (nominated) / Hamilton 1,789 / Higgins 1,682
15th
Wilder W. Hartley
7,637 (nominated) / Franklin P. Buyer 7,096 (nominated) / Jett 1,298 / MacDonald 1,574
Fletcher Bowron
181,582 (elected) / Stephen W. Cunningham
149,195
Delamere Francis McCloskey
12,826 (elected) / Jim Wilson
12,148
3rd
J. Win Austin
10,446 (elected) / Paul V. Parker 8,649
5th
Ira J. McDonald
12,420 (elected) / Arthur E. Briggs
9,492
7th
Carl C. Rasmussen
11,726 (elected) / Howard W. Davis
8,340
8th
Charles A. Allen 12,031 (elected) / Massion 8,408
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 12,838 (elected) / Waxman 7,644
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
12,623 (elected) / Roth 11,386
15th
Wilder W. Hartley
11,877 (elected) / Franklin P. Buyer 7,917
Delamere Francis McCloskey
6,524 (elected) / Scherer 2,948 / Gettys 1,532 / Dentzel 725 / West 622 / Delph 483
2nd
Lloyd G. Davies
6,243 (elected) / Gordon 1,580 / Wright 928 / Cuthbertson 885 / Nelson 639 / Taylor 522
3rd
J. Win Austin
7,587 (elected) / Parker 575
4th
Robert L. Burns
10,141 (elected) / Gunn 928
5th
Ira J. McDonald
6,771 (elected) / MacDonough 3,342 / Arthur E. Briggs
2,334
6th
Earl C. Gay
5,783 (nominated) / L.E. Timberlake 4,136 (nominated) / McGahan 2,287 / McFarland 652
7th
Carl C. Rasmussen
7,226 (elected) / Collins 2,941
8th
Charles A. Allen 6,825 (elected)
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 5,900 (nominated) / Allen 3,876 (nominated) / Campbell 1,727 / Forbes 1,113
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
5,510 (elected) / Kilpatrick 3,718 / Barnard 1,573
11th unexpired term
Dave Stannard
5,098 (elected) / Harold Harby
4,420
11th full term
Harold Harby
4,020 (nominated) / Dave Stannard
3,998 (nominated) / Blake 2,135 / Lindstrom 465
12th
John W. Baumgartner
8,068 (elected) / Tierney 1,516 / Gill 1,323 / Kushner 636 / Gore 523
13th
Roy Hampton
6,363 (nominated) / Ned R. Healy
3,328 / Kay Cunningham 3,310 / Meade McClanahan
1,266
14th
John C. Holland
8,916 (elected) / Edward L. Thrasher
5,758 / Shield 800
15th
George H. Moore
6,383 (elected) / Wilder W. Hartley
4,664
Earl C. Gay
8,841 (elected) / L.E. Timberlake 8,404
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 7,309? (elected) / Allen 7,026
11th
Harold Harby
6,392 (elected) / Dave Stannard
5,988
13th
Ned R. Healy
9,177 (elected) / Roy Hampton
7,613
Fletcher Bowron
146,707 (elected) / Clifford Clinton
51,226 / Roger Jessup 34,056 / Ira J. McDonald 12,721 / Samuel W. Yorty 10,407 / Entenza 10,319 / Jones 2,341 / Gunn 1,274 / Dyster 790 / Hill 647 / Weiss 581 / Zeman 512 / Martin 368 / Mosteller 233
City attorney
Chesebro 197,957 (elected) / Friday 30,902
Delamere Francis McCloskey
6,570 (nominated) / Leland S. Warburton
6,222 (nominated) / Randall 1,391 / Ellis 1,088
2nd
Lloyd G. Davies
10,153 (elected) / Fulton 2,867 / Crowe 1,444 / Wright 1,332 / LaGuardia 585
3rd
Figures missing.
4th
Harold A. Henry
8,622 (nominated) / Groman 3,398 (nominated) / E. Snapper Ingram
2,238 / Hensley 1,077 / Hayden 648 / Syracuse 579 / Hansen 568 / Melham 345
5th
George P. Cronk
4,972 (nominated) / Kennedy 4,555 (nominated) / Olson 2,909 / Murchison 1,032 / Northrup 910? / Brooks 766 / Smith 551 / Wood 419
6th
Earl C. Gay
7,866 (nominated) / L.E. Timberlake 6,473 (nominated) / Williams 2,249 / Read 777
7th
Carl C. Rasmussen
9,319 (nominated) / Charlotta A. Bass 6,546 (nominated) / Hawkins 1,369 / Ferry 1,001 / Branch 693
8th
Charles A. Allen 8,852 (elected) / Gentry 4,009 / Hillton 741 / Rose 685
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 7,378 (nominated) / Allen 5,122 / Quevedo 2,227 / Campbell 2,010 / Rose 1,038
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
12,207 (elected) / Biber 2,327
11th
Harold Harby
9,633 (elected) / Dave Stannard
2,263 / MacGregor 1,685
12th
Ed J. Davenport 4,301 (nominated) / Newton 3,642 (nominated) / Brown 2,034 / Merrill 1,980 / Campbell 1,879 / McFarland 1,171 / Tierney 906 / Kushner 874 / Pettis 216
13th full term
Meade McClanahan
9,098 (elected) / Joseph W. Aldlin 7,328 / Brankey 1,642
13th unexpired term
Meade McClanahan
9,505 (elected) / Joseph W. Aldlin 7,277
14th
John C. Holland
12,846 (elected) / Laster 5,817
15th
George H. Moore
8,168 (elected) / Wilder W. Hartley
4,305
1st
Leland S. Warburton
7,271 (elected) / Delamere Francis McCloskey
4,598
4th
Harold A. Henry
11,112 (elected) / Groman 3,848
5th
George P. Cronk
, 9,347 (elected) / Kennedy 6,195
6th
L.E. Timberlake 9,295 (elected) / Earl C. Gay
9,185
7th
Carl C. Rasmussen
14,593 (elected) / Charlotta A. Bass 7,748
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 8,848 (elected) / Allen 8 ,261
12th
Ed J. Davenport 7,809 (elected) / Newton 7,584
Yes 12,394 approved / No 8,913
13th
John R. Roden
11,394 (elected) / Hubert Wallis 1,028 / John P. McGinley 929
Leland S. Warburton
16,703 (elected) / LaRue 2,681
2nd
Lloyd G. Davies
14,462 (elected) / McKnight 4,063 / Brubaker 2,580 / Lusk 982 / Joel 415
3rd
J. Win Austin
14,613 (elected) / McMillan 5,078
4th
Harold A. Henry
12,959 (elected) / Doran 5,107 / Butler 1,153 / Chiverton 611
5th
George P. Cronk
16, 223 (elected) / Gans 2,371
6th
L.E. Timberlake 10,878 (elected) / Brown 3,559 / Earl C. Gay
3,223 / Corrigan 1,525 / Williams 461 / Beets 319
7th
Carl C. Rasmussen
7,278 (nominated) / Don A. Allen
5,691 (nominated) / Caston 5,502 / Davis 2,643 / Collins 1,104 / Townsend 908 / Draper 286 / Alvord 200
8th
Charles A. Allen 8,841 (nominated) / Kenneth Hahn
5,702 (nominated) / Caukins 1,761 / Monjar 1,338
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 8,933 (nominated) / Sheehan 3,778 (nominated) / Edward R. Roybal 3,338 / Jaffe 3,098 / Shalmo 1,225
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
12,464 (elected) / Downs 2,861 / Bratton 1,876
11th
Harold Harby
13,955 (elected) / Kelleher 3,568
12th
Ed J. Davenport 13,555 (elected) / Behrend 4,436 / Maxwell 1,225 / Gibbons 972
13th
Ernest E. Debs
10,216 (nominated) / John R. Roden
10,046 (nominated) / Meade McClanahan
2,783 / Willingham 1,454
14th
John C. Holland
11,602 (elected) / Mitchell 4,373 / Bishop 2,528 / Baker 2,356 / Buckley 841
15th
George H. Moore
8,318 (nominated) / Wilder W. Hartley
5,041 (nominated) / DeHoog 3,852 / Kisner 728
Don A. Allen
14,542 (elected) / Carl C. Rasmussen
9,408
8th
Kenneth Hahn
11,938 (elected / Charles A. Allen 9,235
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 11,233 (reelected) / Sheehan 9,540
13th
Ernest E. Debs
15,932 (elected) / John R. Roden
11,746
15th
George H. Moore
13.372 (reelected) / Wilder W. Hartley
8,016
Fletcher Bowron
179,929 (nominated) / Lloyd Aldrich
87,766 (nominated) / Ellis Patterson 57,286 / Jack V. Tenney 48,162 / Olin E. Darby 18,806 / Shaw 2,716 / Attaway 2,647 / Weiss 1,506
Leland S. Warburton
17,073 (elected) / Lory 3,857
2nd
Lloyd G. Davies
17,179 (elected) / Barrett 3,490 / Barnes 2,505 / Smith 931
3rd
J. Win Austin
17,373 (elected) / Klenner 4,078
4th
Harold A. Henry
18,337 (elected) / Frolich 5,387
5th
George P. Cronk
14,652 (elected) / McDonough 7,050 / Major 5,637
6th
L.E. Timberlake 16,086 (elected) / Wilson 4,318 / Boyle 2,093 / Dulgarian 1,290 / Orr 1,175 / Smith 836 / Caustin 809
7th
Don A. Allan 19,906 (elected) / Bryant 4,347
8th
Kenneth Hahn
22,277 (elected) / Olson 4,002
9th
Edward R. Roybal
11,139 (nominated) / Parley Parker Christensen 9,521 / Sheehan 2,754 / Sullivan 2,637
10th
No contest.
11th
No contest.
12th
Ed J. Davenport 17,811 (elected) / Kushner 4,811
13th
No contest.
14th
John C. Holland
15,323 (elected) / Thrasher 8,237 / Meek 4,756
15th
George H. Moore
12,670 (elected) / McClung 8,307
Fletcher Bowron
238,199 (reelected) / Lloyd Aldrich 207,211
Edward R. Roybal
20,473 (elected) / Parley Parker Christensen 11,956
13,290 (elected) / O'Brien 12,800
2nd Earle D. Baker
13,609 (elected) / Lloyd G. Davies
7,835 / Brady 3,718
3rd J. Win Austin
18,942 (elected) / Klenner 4,585
4th Harold A. Henry
17,005 (elected) / Melham 4,671
5th George P. Cronk
15,505 (elected) / Case 4,112 / E. Snapper Ingram
3,803
6th L.E. Timberlake 19,753 (elected) / Holzhausen 4,419
7th Don A. Allen
14,752 (elected)
8th Kenneth Hahn
15,277 (reelected)
9th Edward R. Roybal
17,941 (elected) / Rael 5 ,762
10th Kilpatrick 5,301 (nominated) / Charles Navarro
5,077 (nominated) / G. Vernon Bennett
3,835 / Hubbard 2,250 / Charles E. Downs
1,423
11th Harold Harby
12,728 (elected) / Hill 10,960
12th Ed J. Davenport 10,386 (elected) / Newton 5,019 / Payne 2,419 / McFarland 1,030
13th Ernest E. Debs
15,804 (elected) / Monroe 7,505 / Balmer 1,670
14th John C. Holland
13,809 (elected) / Garrick 9,461 / Hop 1,902 / Welchel 654
15th George H. Moore
7,541 (nominated) / John S. Gibson Jr. 6,852 (nominated) / Hillyer Jr. 3,988
9.075 (elected) / Kilpatrick7,382
15th John S. Gibson Jr. 10,555 (elected) / George H. Moore
9,514
211,247 (nominated) / Fletcher Bowron
178,362 / Aldrich 70,459 / Burke 16,470 / Weiss 3,542
City attorney Roger Arnebergh
280,195 (reelected) / Patterson 120,442 / Erwin 35,876
Controller Daniel O. Hoye
317,526 (reelected) / Chenoweth 73,734
1st Everett G. Burkhalter
14,968 (nominated) / O'Brien (nominated) 10,583 / Garver 3,698 / Taylor 930
2nd Earle D. Baker
24,257 (reelected) / O'Connor Jr. 4,665 / West 2,688
3rd Robert M. Wilkinson
5,803 (nominated) / O'Rourke 5,129 (nominated) / Plugge 4,140 / and 13 others
4th Harold A. Henry
21,925 (reelected) / Schulman 4,195 / Long 4,018
5th Rosalind Wiener
9,712 (nominated) / Marshrey 9,261 (nominated) / Nash 4,715 / and six others
6th L.E. Timberlake 16,876 (reelected) / Thruelson 12,504 / Behling 1,943
7th Don A. Allen
18,965 (reelected) / Smith 12,504 / Noeller 1,731
8th Gordon Hahn
13,940 (elected) / Sorensen 5,296 / Rakestraw 3,352 / and five others
9th Edward R. Roybal
unopposed (reelected)
10th Charles Navarro
14,892 (reelected) / Somerville 8,316 / Hayes 2,781 / and two others
11th Harold Harby
16,840 (reelected) / Hill 9,996 / Eckman 1,359 / and two others
12th Ed J. Davenport 14,025 (reelected) / Ransom M. Callicott
13,582
13th Ernest E. Debs
26,323 (reelected) / Mirabal 2,581 / McDonald 1,931
14th John C. Holland
16,783 (reelected) / Garrick 13,349 / Sinclair 2,195
15th John S. Gibson, Jr.
16,896 (reelected) / Love 5,003 / and 2 others
287,619 (elected) / Fletcher Bowron
252,721
21,646 / O'Brien 13,919
3rd Robert M. Wilkinson
20,661 / O'Rourke 17,315
5th Rosalind Wiener
21,110 / Elmer Marshrey 18,790
17,478 (elected) / Fanning 9,689 / Bernhard 1,385 / Bassett 943
4th Harold A. Henry
16,790 (elected) / Schulman 4,934 / Bartlett 2,534
6th L.E. Timberlake 21,409 (elected) / Rose 2,590 / Serias 2,103
8th Gordon Hahn
13,974 (elected) / Givens 3,507 / Parks 3,185
10th Charles Navarro
11,336 (elected) / Thomas 6,236 / Lomax 3,086 / Mackaig 1.555 / Whitworth 477
12th Ransom M. Callicott
12,237 (elected) / Gummerman? 3,341? / Ketchum 2,013 / Abbott 1,858 / Borovay 723
14th John C. Holland
14,012 (elected) / Woodward 11,532?
311,970 (elected) / Yeakel 141,306 / Ennis 44,112 / Carpenter 8,609 / Banks 7,094
29,704 (elected) / Ames 6,209 / Brodnax 1,681
3rd Patrick D. McGee
18,648 (elected) / Maguire 6,437 / Brouillette 6,318 / Violette 1,531 / King 1,046 / Miller 1,011 / Ross 630 / Fixler 599
5th Rosalind Wiener Wyman
32,468 (elected) / Knoble 3,435 / Leeds 2,545 / Wolin 1,278
7th James C. Corman
7,209 (nominated) / Kay Bogendorfer 6,729 (nominated) / Ernani Bernardi
4,791 / Pulskamp 4,292 / Nadeau 2,952 / Plugge 2,778 / Connolly 2,071 / Alton 1,968 / Whitney 1,099 / Bongfeldt 1,027
9th No contest
11th Karl L. Rundberg
12,084 (nominated) / Harold Harby
(nominated) 9,091 / Raeburn 6,230 / Gottlieb 4,752 / Ryerson 872
13th No contest
15th No contest
18,916 (elected) / Kay Bogendorfer 11,544
11th Karl L. Rundberg
17,524 (elected) / Harold Harby
10,193
10,706 (nominated) / McCann 2,602 / Walt Emeson 2,295
4th Harold A. Henry
20,680 (reelected) / Eaton 6,058 / Hersh 1,216
6th L.E. Timberlake 17,376 (reelected) / Davenport 4,496 / Serfas? 3,401
8th Gordon Hahn
16,819 (reelected) / Tolbert 3,516 / Harper 2,064 / Fike 894
10th Charles Navarro
12,961 (reelected) / Atkinson 7,628 / Allen 5,454 / Burke 2,696 / Gray 831
12th Ransom Callicott 12,740 (reelected) / Russell 6,520
13th (unexpired term of Ernest E. Debs) James Harvey Brown
7,864 (nominated) / Charles Bigler 4,005 (nominated) / Perino? 2,345 / Perkins? 2,238 / Runyan? 2,060 / Christopherson 1,970 / Pontino? 1,942 / Bearlay? 1,026 / Feingold? 540
14th John C. Holland
15,959 (reelected) / Basden? 6,592 / Bodine? 3,852 / Broglia? 831 / Beal? 641 / Gledding? 287 / Runyon? 261 / Carson? 254
13,178
10th Charles Navarro
17,861 (reelected) / Atkinson 15,121
13th (unexpired term of Ernest E. Debs) James Harvey Brown
13,981 (elected) / Charles Bigler 10,609
179,273 (nominated) / Sam Yorty 122,475 (nominated) / Patrick D. McGee
115,635 / Ronstadt 11,340 / Kessler 7,558 / Carpenter 7,267 / Miller 4,640 / Coover 2,141 / Lauria 1,598
City attorney Roger Arnebergh
299,411 (reelected) / Garrett 108,143
City controller Charles Navarro
187,122 (nominated) / Daniel O. Hoye
133,569 (nominated) / Fischer 65,318 / Kay 25,683
17,284 (reelected) / Simmons 7,855 / Quevedo 2,499 / Hirsch 2,288
3rd Thomas D. Shepard
11,532 (nominated) / Moffatt 7,449 (nominated) / Moss 4,282 / Anderson 2,258 / Hiscock 1,024 / Ellis 1,797 / Curran 1,295 / Clifton 1,271 / Lamm 1,241 / Van Arsdale 1,047 / Bergin 998 / Criz 943 / Wick 605 / Crosson 550 / Vance 333
5th Rosalind Wiener Wyman
22,702 (reelected) 22,702 / Ben-Tovim 5,816 / Stewart 3,767 / Solin 2,624
7th Ernani Bernardi
11,811 (nominated) / Hardy 5,040 (nominated) / Contino 4,444 / Harrison 3,244 / Winters 2,291 / Sitler 1,896 / McDonald 1,534 / Rosenberg 1,397 / Taylor 901 / Kliebert 546 / Milliner 511 / Wapner 436
9th Edward R. Roybal
17,291 (reelected) / Carter 2,777 / Ruiz 1,784
11th Karl L. Rundberg
20,521 (reelected) / Davis 6,760 / Gallagher 3,733
13th James Harvey Brown
21,951 (reelected) / Libow 5,430 / Abel 1,904 / Berset 1,694
15th John S. Gibson
19,928 (reelected)
257,073
City controller Charles Navarro
331,340 (elected) / Dan O. Hoye 161,690
28,902 (elected) / Norbert B. Moffat 18,508
7th Ernani Bernardi
22,291 (elected) / J. Howard Hardy 18,825
4,068 (nominated) / Foote 3,000 / Simmons 2,856 / Hamner 2,764 / Dodd 2,528 / Corrigan 1,948 / Lipton 1,939 / Imus 1,503 / DiFrancesco 705 / Rick 648 / Weeks 325
2nd C. Lemoine Blanchard
13,758 (nominated) / James B. Potter, Jr.
8,480 (nominated) / Feiner 7,119 / Michaels 2,251 / Walt Emeson 1,783 / Malone 638 / Hawthorne 348
4th Harold A. Henry
20,793 (reelected) / O'Connor 4,696 / Kruger 1,388
6th L.E. Timberlake 14,818 (reelected) / Burke 10,635
8th Billy G. Mills
11,114 (nominated) / Leon Harrison 5,717 (nominated) / Porter 4,698 / Loyd 3,956 / Burton Jr. 1,297
9th Gilbert W. Lindsay
11,631 (nominated) / Tafoya 9,096 (nominated) / Hinkle 1,741 / Sanchez 1,559 / Serrato 620 / Valencia 284
10th unexpired term ending June 30, 1963 Tom Bradley
17,760 (elected) / Joe E. Hollingsworth
10,540
10th full term starting July 1, 1963 Tom Bradley
17,552 (elected) / Joe E. Hollingsworth
10,400
12th John P. Cassidy
12,788 (elected) / McDermott 4,339 / Jong 1,607 / Soles 1,220
14th John C. Holland
16,140 (elected) / Hobart 9,921 / Mackey 2,419
247,313 / Ware 1,728 / Bolger 1,446 / Chrisoheris 915 / Hawthorne 696 / Coover 491
City attorney Roger Arnebergh
474,550 (elected)
City controller Charles Navarro
470,324 (elected)
27,574 (elected) / Skowron 7,260
3rd Thomas D. Shepard
27,483 (elected) / Morris 12,840 / Slocum 1,764
5th Rosalind Wiener Wyman
14,198 (nominated) / Edmund D. Edelman
12,988 (nominated) / Teichner 10,153 / Halper 8,703 / Biren 4,958 / French 2,455 / Lertzman 320
7th Ernani Bernardi
22,268 (reelected) / McIntyre 7,840 / Brown 4,417 / Carasso 1,822 / Simmons 1,228 / Frailich 595
9th Gilbert W. Lindsay
25,477 (elected) / Calderon 10,662 / Valencia 2,606 / Brooks 1,145
11th Karl L. Rundberg
22,397 (nominated) / Marvin Braude
11,033 (nominated) / Rogers 8,671 / Eells 4,103
13th unexpired term ending June 30, 1965 Paul H. Lamport
13,554 (nominated) / Mary Tinglof 10,534 (nominated) / Libow 5,518 / Marvin 3,906 / Fenstermaker 2,427 / Pedroza 2,081 / Passow 2,059 / Nathanson 1,463
13th full term starting July 1, 1965 Paul H. Lamport
13,031 / Mary Tinglof 9,913 (nominated) / Libow 5,208 / Marvin 3,735 / Fenstermaker 2,224 / Passow 1,832 / Pedrosa 1,752 / Nathanson 1,365 / Sullivan 656 / Angier 414 / Rivas 347 / Sellers 292 / Berset 90
15th John S. Gibson, Jr.
24,209 (reelected) / Aguirre 8,962
37,291 (elected) / Rosalind Wiener Wyman 12,201
11th Marvin Braude
22,023 (elected) / Karl L. Rundberg
18,976
13th unexpired term ending June 30, 1965 Paul H. Lamport
21,675 (elected / Mary Tinglof 13,160
13th full term starting July 1, 1965 Paul H. Lamport
21,269 (elected) / Mary Tinglof 13,160
4th unexpired term John Ferraro
20,024 (elected) / Bourland 7,605
4th full term John Ferraro
19,612 (reelected) / Bourland 7,581
6th L.E. Timberlake 16,928 (reelected) / Killmeyer 2,198 / Carter 2,109 / O'Brien 1,206 / Peters 931
8th Billy G. Mills
21,650 (reelected) / Williams 892 / Burchett 850 / Green 829
10th Tom Bradley
unopposed.
12th Robert M. Wilkinson
8,982 (nominated) / John P. Cassidy
6,112 (nominated) / Cavnar 3,281 / Contino 2,844 / Jones 2,729 / Waisgerber 1,859 / Marrone 1,041 / Markham 603
14th Arthur K. Snyder
15,157 (elected) / Cook 4,014 / Wong 3,866 / Mackey 3,731 / Jacinto 1,168 / O'Neill 834 / George 646 / Orr 380 / Lockwood 360 / Hampton 135
24,312 (elected) / John P. Cassidy
7,127
293,793 (nominated) / Sam Yorty 183,334 (nominated) / Baxter Ward
116,555 / Bell 99,172 / Robert M. Wilkinson
2,682 / Steinberg 1,574 / Andreson 1,600 / Elliott 1,160 / Rourke 790 / Kline 718 / Whizin 659 / Hathaway 375 / Federick 277 / Schulner 169
City attorney Roger Arnebergh
384,355 (reelected)
City controller Charles Navarro
379.971 (reelected)
22,818 (reelected) / Jim Keysor 7,890 / Cortes 6,111 / Wahrman 3,958 / Wargo 1,099
3rd Howard W. Speer 13,778 (nominated) / Donald Lorenzen 9,519 (nominated) / Moffatt 5,159 / Walker 4,452 / Ames 3,597 / Moore 3,074 / New 2,813 / Falcone 1,551 / Smith 866
5th Edmund D. Edelman
42,358 (reelected) / Rutledge 4,453 / Dans 2,550
7th Ernani Bernardi
29,120 (reelected) / Onan 9,509 / Marrone 3,323
9th Gilbert W. Lindsay
26,274 (reelected)
11th Marvin Braude
35,962 (reelected)
13th Paul H. Lamport
13,955 (nominated) / Robert Stevenson
11,037 (nominated) / Pedroza 7,034 / Norman 2,951 / Scherb 2,309 / Newman 2,289 / Lemieux 1,084
15th John S. Gibson, Jr.
25,676 (reelected)
392,379
13th Robert Stevenson
26,335 (elected) / Paul H. Lamport
22,935
won by 520 votes over her closest opponent, Frank Small. There were three other candidates.
6,346 (nominated) / James B. Potter, Jr.
6,016 (nominated) / Melograno 4,104 / Smith 3,718 / Commons 3,598 / Bennett 2,827 / Wieder 2,172 / Stanley Hirsh 606 / Rick 648 / Williams 572 / Walt Emeson 486 / Arthur Arthur 354 / True Slocum 207 / Eileen Nora Andreson 197 / Duberchin 126
4th John Ferraro
18,892 (reelected) / Federick 3,540
6th unexpired term of L.E. Timberlake Pat Russell
15,612 (reelected) / Small 11,040
6th Pat Russell
15,207 (reelected) / Frank Small 11,214
8th Billy G. Mills
18,778 (reelected)
10th Tom Bradley
19,164 (reelected) / Henry 2,835
12th Robert M. Wilkinson
15,301 (reelected) / Waisgerber 4,221 / Holtz 2,835 / Christensen 2,608 / Boudreau 1,176
14th Arthur K. Snyder
21,500 (reelected) / Deal 5,261 / Perez 4,214
24,704 (elected) / James B. Potter, Jr.
14,898
233,789 (nominated) / Sam Yorty 190,649 (nominated) / Jess Unruh 114,693 / Reddin 83,930 / Joel Wachs
24,907 / Dornan 4,849 / Rodriguez 2,326 / Bagley 2,118 / Anderson 1,037 / Watson 792 / Buchanan 685 / Orr 555 / Ware 371
City attorney Roger Arnebergh
249,750 (nominated) / Burt Pines
211,260 (nominated) / Ira Reiner
46,599 / Hyman 23,604
City controiller Charles Navarro
356,245 (reelected) / Gold 81,253 / Hoag 41,613 / Day 33,323 / Blount 31,837 / Taylor 20,505 / Rees 13,929
17,058 (reelected) / Howard A. Finn 6,395 / Rodney G. Harrison 3,229 / Dib 2,215 / Willis 1,674 / Hamlin 1,514
3rd Donald Lorenzen 18,886 (nominated) / Joy Picus 10,087 / Scola 8,602 / Dominguez 3,323 / Bach 3,150
5th Edmund D. Edelman
42,179 (reelected)
7th Ernani Bernardi
, 29,308 (reelected)
9th Gilbert W. Lindsay
16,848 (reelected) / Hinkle 3,683 / Kelley 2,736 / Scott 2,075 / Stanley 1,959 / Barnett 1,693
11th Marvin Braude
43,901 (reelected) / Falcone 5,269 / Henry 4,891 (One precinct missing)
13th Robert Stevenson
12,905 (nominated) / Kasper 11,313 / Paul H. Lamport
4,922 / Estomo 3,879 / Perez 2,562 / Newman 1,750 / Machadah 1,534 / Discola 1,461
15th John S. Gibson, Jr.
16,789 (reelected) / Almeida 5,659 / Siegfried 2,768
431,222 (elected) / Sam Yorty 334,297
City attorney Burt Pines
418, 856 (elected) / Roger Arnebergh
299,212
13th Robert Stevenson
27,231 (reelected) / Kasper 21,062
1,321 (reelected) / Bell 97 / Rickless 94 / Kritt 55 / Gabriel 21
4th John Ferraro 6,275 (reelected) / Ogren 1,575 / Abella 832 / Broy 193
5th Savitch 2,433 (nominated) / Zev Yaroslavsky
1,635 (nominated) / Rosalind Wiener Wyman
1,523 / Pye 846 / Rutledge 339 / Richman 313 / French 219 / Hamm 132 / Cowan 103 / Milrad 82
6th Pat Russell
1,351 (reelected) / Overfelt 425 / Lee 157 / Nickel 40
8th unexpired term of Billy G. Mills
Robert C. Farrell
4,879 (elected)
8th full term Robert C. Farrell
3,873 (elected) / Curtis 809 / Justice 524
10th unexpired term of Tom Bradley
David S. Cunningham, Jr.
4,884 (elected)
10th full term David S. Cunningham, Jr.
3,571 (elected) / Bradley 1,621 / MacMillan 648
12th Robert M. Wilkinson
1,613 (nominated) / Klein 1,306 (nominated) / Gallagher 482 / Dantona 343 / Goetzman 88
14th Arthur K. Snyder
5,161 (elected) / Lopez-Lee 2,957 / Avila 1,914 / Garcia 791 / Armas 225 / Bastides 144 / Pendas 30
Zev Yaroslavsky
23,372 (elected) / Savitch 19,606
12th Robert M. Wilkinson
20,391 (elected) / Klein 20,058
13th Peggy Stevenson 9,008 (elected) / Irving Kasper 6,900 / Quinn 5,342 / plus 26 other candidates
287,927 (reelected) / Robbins 136,180 / Jarvis 47,665 / plus nine other candidates
City attorney Burt Pines
366,398 (reelected) / Clancy 35,324 / Diamond 19,929 / plus two other candidates
City controller Ira Reiner
185,328 (nominated) / Robert C. Cline 82,153 (nominated) / Louis R. Nowell 38,959 / plus seven other candidates
9,201 (nominated) / Peterson 5,098 (nominated) / Finn 3,406 / plus eleven other candidates
3rd Joy Picus 17,465 (nominated) / Donald Lorenzen 15,722 (nominated) / Moore 3,565 / plus three other candidates
5th Zev Yaroslavsky
39,034 (reelected) / Milrad 3,613
7th Ernani Bernardi
22,205 (reelected) / Unjian 8,212
9th Gilbert W. Lindsay
19,696 (reelected) / Hinkle 2,201 / plus four other candidates
11th Marvin Braude
28,416 (reelected) / Pye 10,114 / Crossley 5,534 (One precinct missing)
13th Peggy Stevenson 24,929 (reelected)
15th John S. Gibson, Jr.
10,269 (nominated) / Stanbery 4,335 (nominated) / Pescetti 2,559 / plus two other candidates
4,245 (elected) / Peterson 2,187
3rd Joy Picus 1,148 (elected) / Donald Lorenzen 993
15th John S. Gibson, Jr.
2,748 (reelected) / Stanbery 1,123
2nd Joel Wachs
(elected) / Joseph J. Micciche / Morton J. Allen
4th John Ferraro
(elected with 84%)
6th Pat Russell
7,659 (elected) / Frank Overfelt 3,587 / plus three other candidates
8th Robert Farrell
(elected with 77%)
10th David S. Cunningham, Jr.
9,116 (elected) / Nate Holden
7,505
12th Barbara Klein 7,129 (nominated) / Hal Bernson
6,700 (nominated) / plus fourteen other candidates
14th Arthur K. Snyder (elected) / unopposed
279,501 (elected) / Sam Yorty 142,204 / Fischer 2,344 / plus sixteen others
City attorney Ira Reiner
216,366 (nominated) / Bob Ronka
137,254 (nominated) / Zinger 73,714 / Drabin 7,770
City controller James Hahn
164,937 (nominated) / Weeks 75,146 (nominated) / Travis 61,500 / plus five other candidates
4,801 (nominated) / Hayes 3,451 / plus six other candidates
3rd Joy Picus 21,241 (reelected) / Vanderbok 10,543
5th Zev Yaroslavsky
34,651 (reelected) / Unopposed
7th Ernani Bernardi
22,320 (reelected) / Goldener 5,245 / Mulman 1,878
9th Gilbert W. Lindsay
18,510 (reelected) / Barnett 1,453 / Hinkle 1,320 / Bates 878
11th Marvin Braude
27,469 (reelected) / Stout 6,230 / plus three other candidates
13th Peggy Stevenson 12,145 (nominated) / Michael Woo 11,770 (nominated) / Amador 2,049 / White 1,911
15th Joan Milke Flores
8,046 (nominated) / Greenwood 4,786 (nominated) / Stanbery 2,005 / plus nine others
231,540 (elected) / Bob Ronka
133,205
City controller Jim Hahn 194,226 (elected) / Weeks 162,619
12,847 (elected) / Keysor 11,151
13th Peggy Stevenson 20,162 (reelected) / Michael Woo
13,018
15th Joan Milke Flores
10,205 (elected) / Greenwood 9,943
17,518 (reelected) / Hays 2,219 / Paterson 1,322 / plus three others
4th John Ferraro
12,705 (reelected) / Ghandi 1,016 / Garza 907
6th Pat Russell
14,390 (reelected) / Simpson 6,423 / Stowe 3,290
8th Robert C. Farrell
12,791 (reelected) / Hale 2,780 / Walton-James 1,479 / plus two others
10th David S. Cunningham, Jr.
13,406 (reelected) / Wertz 2,084
12th Hal Bernson
15,647 (reelected) / Sherman 8,704
14th Art Snyder
10,497 (reelected) / Rodriguez 8,952 / Schaefer 643 / plus three others
220,055 (reelected) / John Ferraro
98,163 / Eileen Anderson 1,293 / and six others
City attorney James Kenneth Hahn 167,797 (elected) / Lisa Specht 130,843 / Murray Kane 9,429 / plus two others
City controller Dan Shapiro 99,677 (nominated) / Rick Tuttle
86,939 (nominated) / Alice Travis 65,032 / Celes King III 28,003
12,398 (reelected) / Elton Michael 3,170 / Noel S. Horwin 1,869 / Louis Cichelli 341
3rd Joy Picus 15,513 (reelected) / Jeanne Nerno 5,525 / Matt Lynch 3,195 / plus three others
5th Zev Yaroslavsky
24,597 (reelected) / Unopposed
7th Peggy Stevenson]] 8,690 (nominated) / [[Mike Woo]] 7,188 (nominated) / Michael Linfield 2,791 / plus three others
15th [[Joan Milke Flores]] 17,044 (reelected) / Unopposed
7,543 (reelected) / Rose Marie Lopez 5,313
3rd Laura Chick 28,564 (reelected) / Mort Diamond 6,581
5th Mike Feuer 35,683 (reelected) / Unopposed
7th Richard Alarcon
12,460 (reelected) / Ollie McCauley (write-in) 196
9th Gilbert W. Lindsay
18,510 (reelected) / Barnett 1,453 / Hinkle 1,320 / Bates 878
11th Georgia Mercer 17,423 (nominated) / Cindy Miscikowski
(nominated) 16,530 / Mark Isler 5,537 / Doug Friedman 2,898
13th Jackie Goldberg
13,823 (reelected) / Unopposed
15th Rudy Svorinich, Jr. 13,741 / Diana Ellizabeth Contreras 6,375 / Dennis Kortheuer 2,510
13,755 (elected) / Georgia Mercer 12,321
12,692 (reelected) / Augusto Bisani 4,109
4th Tom Labonge
10,629 (reelected) / Tomås O'Grady 6,088 / Stephen Box 2,778
6th Tony Cardenas
4,788 (reelected) / Rich Goodman 1,539 / James (Jamie) Cordaro 1,238 / David Barron 734
8th Bernard C. Parks
9,482 (reelected) / Forescee Hogan-Rowles 8,058 / Jabari S. Jumaane 975
10th Herb J. Wesson, Jr.
9,744 (reelected) / Andrew (Andy) Kim 1,480 / Althea Rae Shaw 668 / plus three others
12th Mitchell Englander
13,751 (elected) / Brad Smith 5,917 / Navraj (Singh) Singh 1,430 / plus three others
14th José Huizar
10,945 (reelected) / Rudy Martinez 6,310
Citywide 1906-10
MayorOwen McAleer
Owen McAleer
Owen McAleer served as the 25th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, from 1904 to 1906.-Biography:A native of Liskeard, Ontario Canada, McAleer came to Los Angeles, California in 1888. He built the city's first steam boiler and later became a superintendent at Baker Iron Works.McAleer formed the...
(Rep.) 14,293 (elected) / Snyder (Dem.) 10,949
City Clerk
Lelande (Rep.) 16,426 (elected) / Murphy (Dem.) 7,544
Treasurer
Myers (Rep.) 11,273 (elected) / Workman (Dem.) 13,613
Auditor
Schwaebe (Rep.) 13,409 (elected) / Plant (Dem.) 7.907
Engineer
Stafford (Rep.) 16,634 (elected) / Viole (Dem.) 7,234
Street superintendent
Hanley (Dem.) 17,461 (elected) / Werdin (Rep.) 7.379
Assessor
Evan Lewis (Rep.) 13,109 (elected) / Barham (Dem.) 10,518
City attorney
Mathews (Rep.) (unopposed and elected)
Tax and license collector
Johnson (Rep.) (unopposed and elected)
City Council 1906–08
1stFord (Rep.) 1,220 (elected) / Nickel (Dem.) 881
2nd
Hammon (Rep.) 1,435 (elected) / Falconer (Dem.) 1,126
3rd
Hilier (Rep.) 1,520 (elected) / Foy (Dem.) 991
4th
Summerland (Rep.) 2,191 (elected) / Irvine (Dem.) 1,841
5th
Smith (Rep.)1,598? (elected) / No opponent
6th
Howton (Ind.) 2,143 (elected) / Scholl (Rep.) 1,621 / Weber (Dem.) 802
7th
Kern (Dem.) 1.821 (elected) / Fullway (Rep.) 1,272
8th
Healy (Rep.) 640 (elected) / Savage (Dem.) 599
9th
Blanchard (Rep.) 1,301 (elected) / No opponent
1911 final
First municipal election in which women voted.Mayor George Alexander
George Alexander
George Alexander may refer to:*George Alexander , British actor*George Alexander , mayor of Los Angeles*George T. Alexander , US Army soldier*George W...
85,492 (elected) / Job Harriman
Job Harriman
Job Harriman was an ordained minister who later became an agnostic and a socialist. In 1900 he ran for Vice President of the United States along with Eugene Debs on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America. He later twice ran for mayor of Los Angeles, drawing considerable attention and support...
51,423
City Attorney John W. Shenk 84,370 (elected) / Edward W. Tuttle 49,773
City Auditor John S. Meyers 83,842 (elected) / George W. Downing 49,176
City Assessor Walter Mallard 83,102 (elected) / A.M. Salyer 50,119
Council members J.J. Andrews 82,834 (elected, 4 years) / M.F. Betkouski 83,076 (elected, 4 years / R.M. Lusk 82,958 (elected, 4 years) / F.C. Langdon 81,210 (elected, 4 years) / Charles McKenzie 79,323 (elected, 2 years) / H.W. Reed 78,107 (elected 2 years) / John Topham 73,540 (elected, 2 years) / F.J. Whiffen 78,383 (elected, 2 years) / George Williams 78,784 (elected, 2 years). Unelected runners-up not shown here; see source for details.
1915 final
MayorCharles Edward Sebastian 46,498 (elected) / Whiffen 41,989
City Council
Eight men and one woman were elected: Fred C. Wheeler 57,232 / M.F. Betkouski 50,552 / J.S. Conwell 49,667 / F.C. Langdon 45,915 / Robert T. Brain 43,392 / Estelle Lawton Lindsey
Estelle Lawton Lindsey
Estelle Lawton Lindsey was a 20th Century journalist who was also the first female City Council member in Los Angeles, California, the first woman to preside over the City Council there and the first woman to act as mayor in any American city of comparable size.-Biography:Estelle Lawton was...
41,437 / Foster C. Wright 37,029 / W.A. Roberts 36,536 / John Topham 31,339
1917 primary
One precinct did not report.Mayor
Frederick T. Woodman
Frederick T. Woodman
Frederick Thomas Woodman served as the 31st Mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1916 to 1919.-Biography:...
(elected) / Meredith P. Snyder
Meredith P. Snyder
Meredith Pinxton Snyder was the 23rd Mayor of Los Angeles, California, USA, serving 1896–1898, 1900–1904 and 1919–1921...
/ Charles E. Sebastian
Charles E. Sebastian
Charles Edward Sebastian was the 30th mayor of Los Angeles, California, serving from 1915 to 1916.-Biography:He was born in Farmington, Missouri on March 30, 1873....
Auditor
John S. Myers (reelected) / C.H. Knapp / Louise Auerbach
City attorney
Albert Lee Stephens (reelected) / Warren L. Willliams
City Council
Sixty-four men and four women were in the May primary: Seventeen men and one woman were chosen for the final vote in June. They were Estelle Lawton Lindsey
Estelle Lawton Lindsey
Estelle Lawton Lindsey was a 20th Century journalist who was also the first female City Council member in Los Angeles, California, the first woman to preside over the City Council there and the first woman to act as mayor in any American city of comparable size.-Biography:Estelle Lawton was...
19,214 / Fred C. Wheeler 18,024 / J.S Conwell 17,877 / Neal P. Olsen 16,776 / Walter Mallard 15,096 / Frederick C. Langdon 15,212 / Henry H. Lyon 14,452 / John B . Powell 12,845 / Foster C. Wright 13,085 / Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell , first a Socialist and then a Republican, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for ten years in the early 20th Century...
11,930 / Albert B. Conrad 11,755 / John B. Reeves 11,282 / Martin F. Betkouski 11,093 / W.A. Roberts 10,977 / O.P. Conway 10,991 / Frank L. Cleaveland 10,914 / A.D. Houghton 10,807 / Bert L. Farmer 10,458. Otto J. Zahn, with 7,417 votes, was a future City Council member who did not make the cut.
1917 final
City CouncilSeventeen men and one woman were in the June final election. Nine men were elected. They were Walter Mallard 60,617 / Neal P. Olsen 60,009 / O.P. Conaway 50,863 / J.S. Conwell 49,980 / Albert B. Conrad 49,970 / Bert L. Farmer 49,075 / Frank L. Cleaveland 48,247 / Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell , first a Socialist and then a Republican, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for ten years in the early 20th Century...
45,356 / John B. Reeves 44,962. The runners-up were John B. Powell 42,709 / Henry H. Lyon 41,127 / A.D. Houghton 40,699 / Foster C. Wright 31,547 / Frederick C. Langdon 31,264 / Martin Betkouski 31,222 / Estelle Lawton Lindsey
Estelle Lawton Lindsey
Estelle Lawton Lindsey was a 20th Century journalist who was also the first female City Council member in Los Angeles, California, the first woman to preside over the City Council there and the first woman to act as mayor in any American city of comparable size.-Biography:Estelle Lawton was...
28,891 / Fred C. Wheeler 28,487 / W.A. Roberts 27,270.
1919 primary
MayorMeredith P. Snyder
Meredith P. Snyder
Meredith Pinxton Snyder was the 23rd Mayor of Los Angeles, California, USA, serving 1896–1898, 1900–1904 and 1919–1921...
23,368 (nominated) / Frederick T. Woodman
Frederick T. Woodman
Frederick Thomas Woodman served as the 31st Mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1916 to 1919.-Biography:...
19,504 (nominated) / Weaver 13,864 / Williams 4,316 / Irene Smith 1,516 / Small 116
Auditor
John S. Myers 42,815 (reelected) 42,815 / Morehouse 10,288
City attorney
Burnell 21,791 (nominated) / James 11,511 (nominated) / Metcalf 10,163 / Burks 7,194 / Layng 1,887
City Council
The following eighteen people were nominated to run in the June election: Bert L. Farmer 31,114 / Boyle Workman
Boyle Workman
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...
26,503 / Langdon 22,679 / Fred C. Wheeler 22,023 / (W.J.?) Sanborn 20,811 / Fleming 19,923 / Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell , first a Socialist and then a Republican, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for ten years in the early 20th Century...
19,068 / Mallard 18,295 / Cleaveland 16,326 / Conaway 16,210 / Braunton 16,001 / Seward 15,098 / Conrad 14,739 / Purcell 13,499 / Reeves 13,094 / Olsen 13,092 / True 12,886 / Houghton 11,406.
1919 final
Incomplete returns.Mayor
Meredith P. Snyder
Meredith P. Snyder
Meredith Pinxton Snyder was the 23rd Mayor of Los Angeles, California, USA, serving 1896–1898, 1900–1904 and 1919–1921...
(elected) / Frederick T. Woodman
Frederick T. Woodman
Frederick Thomas Woodman served as the 31st Mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1916 to 1919.-Biography:...
City attorney
Burnell (elected) / James
City Council
The following nine men were elected: Boyle Workman
Boyle Workman
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...
/ Bert L. Farmer / Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell , first a Socialist and then a Republican, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for ten years in the early 20th Century...
/ Sanborn / Langdon / Fleming / Mallard / Wheeler / Conaway.
1921 primary
MayorMeredith P. Snyder
Meredith P. Snyder
Meredith Pinxton Snyder was the 23rd Mayor of Los Angeles, California, USA, serving 1896–1898, 1900–1904 and 1919–1921...
33,378 (nominated) / George E. Cryer (nominated) 30,854 / Boyle Workman
Boyle Workman
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...
12,982 / William L. Smith 1,469 / Alfred A. Wright 512 / Hayden Morgan 325
Auditor
John S. Myers 40,301 (elected) / Chester C. Ashley 13,027 / B.E. Morehouse 9,082 / Michael Weisz 2,570
City attorney
Jess E. Stephens 61,619 (elected)
City Council
Walter Mullard 34,595 (nominated) / O.P. Conaway 29,653 (nominated) / Ralph L. Criswell 28,778 (nominated) / F.C. Langdon 28,113 (nominated) / F.C. Wheeler 27,801 (nominated) / E.J. Delorey 25,123 (nominated) / F.L. Cleaveland 24,576 (nominated) / Benjamin Bogardus 22,485 (nominated) / W.J. Sanborn 22,197 (nominated) / W.C. Mushet 20,699 (nominated) / Robert M. Allan 20,218 (nominated) / A.B. Conrad 19,750 (nominated) / F.H. True 18,930 (nominated) / Ida W. Darling 18,946 (nominated) / Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks 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...
18,296 (nominated) / Edward Roberts 12,312 (nominated) / W.A. Roberts 11,210 (nominated) / W.C. Steele 10,628 (nominated) / Frank Purcell 10,010 / Emma B. Swindell 9,526 / Henry A. Hart 9,495 / J.M. Edwards 8,616 / George P. Mills 8,512 / Titus Alexander 8,487 / James Shackleford 7,993 / J.W. Toms 7,929 / Thomas M. Coughlin 7,548 / John B. Franklin 7,635 / Frank Blair 6,949 / Rosa Smith 6,407 / Harry Loomis 6,179 / Oscar C. Zahn 5,869 / C.M. O'Leary 5,742 / L..J. Wright 5,489 / Frank Shannon 5,423 / Cassius E. Bly 5,222 / W.H. Sanders 5,108 / J.L Seamans 4,471 / W.J. Thompson 4,182 / E.B. Harris 3,563 / J.E. Parish 3,187 / Irving A. Mandell 3,137 / Harry S. Fish 3,003 / Julius Levitt 2,787
1921 final
MayorGeorge E. Cryer 37,510 (elected) / Meredith P. Snyder
Meredith P. Snyder
Meredith Pinxton Snyder was the 23rd Mayor of Los Angeles, California, USA, serving 1896–1898, 1900–1904 and 1919–1921...
33,411
City Council
Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks 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...
27,215 (elected) / Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell , first a Socialist and then a Republican, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for ten years in the early 20th Century...
26,854 (elected) / Walter Mallard 26,374 (elected) / W.C. Mushet 24,690 (elected) / Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...
24,682 (elected) / F.C. Langdon 24,605 (elected) / Robert M. Allan
Robert M. Allan
Robert M. Allan was a member of the City Council in Los Angeles, California, from 1921 to 1927.-Biography:Robert M. Allan was a member of the City Council in Los Angeles, California, from 1921 to 1927.-Biography:...
24,469 (elected) / O.P. Conaway 24,331 (elected) / F.C. Wheeler 23,975 (elected) / E.J. Delorey 23,334 / F.L. Cleaveland 22,875 / Benjamin Bogardus 22,452 / Ida Works Darling 21,306 / A.B. Conrad 20,024 / F.H True 19,285 / W.C. Steele 15,421 / Edward Roberts 14,353 / W.A. Roberts 14,247
1923 primary
Mayor George E. Cryer 61,766 (elected) / Bert L. Farmer 17,672 / Edward E. MooreEdward E. Moore
Not to be confused with George E. Moore, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–51Edward E. Moore , an attorney and real-estate man, was an Indiana state senator for eight years in the early part of the 20th Century and a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to...
7,175 / Hancock 3,306 / Knapp 725
Auditor Myers 60,977 (elected) / Wright 16,061
City attorney Stephens 73,860 (elected)
City Council Criswell 11,583 (nominated) / Mallard 10,120 (nominated) / Allan 38,918 (nominated) / Sanborn 36,191 (nominated) / Mushet 35,137 (nominated) / Boyle Workman
Boyle Workman
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...
34,526 (nominated) / Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks 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...
26,971 (nominated) / Edwin Baker 26,615 (nominated) / Miles S. Gregory 23,695 (nominated) / Wheeler 22,418 (nominated) / Charles J. Colden
Charles J. Colden
Charles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J...
24,217 (nominated) / Wardlaw 19,959 (nominated) / Wallace G. Oaks 165,659 (nominated) / Robert T. Brain 14,119 (nominated) / Isaac F. Hughes 12,698 (nominated) / Glen MacWilliams 12,327 (nominated) / C.W. Clegg 10,806 (nominated) / Irwin W. Camp 10,330 (nominated) / A.L. Colby 9,883 / Marian Tracie Whiting 9,779 / Titus Alexander 9,637 / Eugene W. Brown 9,244 / Greely Kolts 8,660 / Fred Frank 8,648 / Coughlin 8,483? / Wright 8,412? / William Edwards 8,280 / Charles H. Wood 7,466? / Bernard Goss 7,452 / James G. King 7,431? / Lewis E. Bishop 7,2?5 / Booker T. Washington Jr. 6,752 / William Charlton 6,522 / Charles G. Weickman 6,431 / George T. Jeffers 6,401 / Philip Jacobson 6,350 / Arthur V. Tyler 6,318 / Beaumont 5,746 / M.A. Shuster 5,642 / James Brown 5,545 / C.B. Conlin 4,866 / L.C. Dodelan 3,918 / Harris 3,899 / George E. Killmer 3,683 / J.D. Huddle 2,482 / Anson B. Edgerly 2,158 / Edward C. Primus 1,934
1923 final
City CouncilRobert M. Allan
Robert M. Allan
Robert M. Allan was a member of the City Council in Los Angeles, California, from 1921 to 1927.-Biography:Robert M. Allan was a member of the City Council in Los Angeles, California, from 1921 to 1927.-Biography:...
50,909 (elected) / Boyle Workman
Boyle Workman
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...
50,356 (elected) / Mallard 49,880 (elected) / Criswell 49,661 (elected) / Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...
45,745 (elected) / Mushet 40,898 (elected) / Gregory 37,089 (elected) / Wheeler 35,500 (elected) / Baker 34,942 (elected) / Charles J. Colden
Charles J. Colden
Charles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J...
34,670 / Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks 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...
34,458 / Wardlaw 33,411 / Isaac F. Hughes
Isaac F. Hughes
Not to be confused with William M. Hughes, council member in 1927 to 1929.Isaac F. Hughes, known as I.F. Hughes, was a miller, a grocer and a businessman who was the first representative of Los Angeles City Council District 3 after a new city charter went into effect in 1925...
24,013 / Oaks 23,550 / Brain 21,331 / Clegg 17,313 / Camp 16,309 / MacWilliams 15,954
Citywide 1925–29
MayorGeorge E. Cryer 82,188 (reelected) / Benjamin F. Bledsoe 67,722 / Miles S. Gregory 9,540 / Edgar McKee 300 / E.J. Rindler 332 / Ralph L. Knapp 229
Controller
John S. Myers
John S. Myers
John S. Myers served as Los Angeles City Auditor and Los Angeles City Controller for a total of 28 years.Meyers served as Auditor of the City of Los Angeles longer than anyone else. He succeeded William C. Mushet in 1909 and held the title of Auditor until it was changed to Controller in 1925 under...
64,049 (nominated) / W.C. Mushet 47,447 (nominated) / Arthur Eldridge 26,913
City attorney
Jess E. Stephens 129,461 (reelected)
City Council 1925–27
1stCharles T. Wardlaw 3,106 (nominated) / Charles H. Randall 2,851 (nominated) / Edgar Lampton 1,593 / Arthur M. Fellows 627 / Clara L. McDonald 328
2nd
Robert M. Allan
Robert M. Allan
Robert M. Allan was a member of the City Council in Los Angeles, California, from 1921 to 1927.-Biography:Robert M. Allan was a member of the City Council in Los Angeles, California, from 1921 to 1927.-Biography:...
6,262 (reelected) / Harry D. Brown 3,179 / Milton L. Garrigus 1,426 / Victor M. Clark 1,070
3rd
Edwin O. Loucks 2,945 (nominated) / Isaac F. Hughes
Isaac F. Hughes
Not to be confused with William M. Hughes, council member in 1927 to 1929.Isaac F. Hughes, known as I.F. Hughes, was a miller, a grocer and a businessman who was the first representative of Los Angeles City Council District 3 after a new city charter went into effect in 1925...
2,729 (nominated) / Irwin W. Camp 1,373 / William La Plante 1,140 / Fred H. Leavitt 972 / Arthur O. Parker 883 / Arthur St. Claire Perry 735 / Frank Shannon 651 / H. Bernard Abbott 637 / William Vinson McCoy 510
4th
Boyle Workman
Boyle Workman
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...
5,489 (reelected) / Henry Kraemer 2,817 / Charles D. Ray 2,275
5th
R.S. Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks 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...
3,282 (nominated) / John Topham 2,324 (nominated) / Willard E. Badham 2,239 / Robert P. Sheldon 1,148 / Charles C. Weickman 898 / G.W. James 652 / W.H. Elliott 252 / Frederick G. Topp 63
6th
C.W. Clegg 3,555 (nominated) / Edward E. Moore
Edward E. Moore
Not to be confused with George E. Moore, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–51Edward E. Moore , an attorney and real-estate man, was an Indiana state senator for eight years in the early part of the 20th Century and a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to...
, 3,061 (nominated) / Bert L. Farmer, 3,045 / B.A. Byrne 784 / Sarah Hawley 703 / H.J. Grimes 552 / Harry B. Lady 278 / Nathan Nagel 271 / E.A. Crandall 270 / Paul Lade 97
7th
Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell , first a Socialist and then a Republican, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for ten years in the early 20th Century...
3,436 (nominated) / Howard W. Davis
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. 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...
2,216 (nominated) / George F. Ryan 925 / S.B.W. May 657 / Edgard J. Nagle 467 / Eldon C. Rookledge 236
8th
Evan Lewis 1,445 (nominated) / Frank L. Shaw
Frank L. Shaw
Frank L. 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...
1,383 (nominated); Greely Kolts 1,136 / George F. Gillett 1,100 / Harry F. Burke 1,014 / Bruce A. Nelson 731 / James M. Alexander 567 / Arne A. Nordskog 539 / W. F. Vellage 491 / Herbert J. Raymond 391 / George D. McClellan 358 / Edward R. Kerns 258 / James R. Gentry 211 / Benjamin S. Lauder 194 / David S. Reynolds 185
9th
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...
4,578 (reelected) / Thomas L. Dodge 2,119 / Bruce M. John 751 / W.G. Browning 656 / Fred W. Kahlert 290 / W.S. Maharg 114
10th
Mark A. Pierce 2,302 (nominated) / Charles E. Downs
Charles E. Downs
Charles E. Downs was the first Los Angeles City Council member representing the 10th District after a new city charter went into effect in 1925...
1,722 (nominated) / Joseph J. Meyers 1,394 / P.M. Abbott 1,131 / George A. Bell 712 / A.B. Jamison 236
11th
F.C. Langdon 2,172 (nominated) / Peirson M. Hall
Peirson M. Hall
Peirson Mitchell Hall, known as Peirson M. Hall, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1925 to 1929, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California from 1933 to 1937, a judge in the Los Angeles Superior Court from 1939 to 1940, head of the U.S. Selective Service System for...
1,636 (nominated) / George W. Rochester 912 / Frank H. Mouser 886 / Sidney W. Neighbors 573 / Marcus S. Casenave 468 / Alfred A. Wright 382 / Arch L. Mitchell 307
12th
A.J. Barnes 2,812 (nominated) / E.J. McCully 2,068 (nominated) / Clarence W. Horn 1,684 / Leslie R. Saunders 1,619 / J.L. Edwards 863 / Lin William Price 717 / Amos L. Colby 571 / W.H. Hartman 99
13th
Joseph L. Pedrotti 1,887 (nominated) / Joseph F. Fitzpatrick 1,510 (nominated) / Fred W. Fuller 1,476 / Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to 1933. He was tried on a morals charge, and then it was later shown that he was the victim of a frame-up by local police authorities.-Biography:...
1,459 / John E. Arnold 1,459 / Bearl Sprott 968 / Edward J. Kelly 677 / E. M. Stewart 505 / James C. Borton 464 / Thomas M. Coughlin 365
14th
Edwin Baker 4,526 (nominated) / I.C. Ash
Isaac Colton Ash
Isaac Colton Ash was a banker, real-estate dealer and member of the Los Angeles City Council in the 20th century.-Biography:Isaac Colton Ash was a banker, real-estate dealer and member of the Los Angeles City Council in the 20th century.-Biography:Isaac Colton Ash was a banker, real-estate...
4,374 (nominated) / Charles S. Lamb 1,091; W.A. Roberts 963 / Elsie G. Collins 651
15th
Charles J. Colden
Charles J. Colden
Charles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J...
4,324 (nominated) / James H. Dodson Jr. 2,501 (nominated) / Henry E. Carter 1,808 / E.M. Reimiller 1,173 / George I. Maxwell 269 / Charles B. Minter 191 / Edward Harris 70
City Council 1925–27
1stCharles H. Randall 4,292 (elected) / Charles T. Wardlaw 3,719
2nd
Isaac F. Hughes
Isaac F. Hughes
Not to be confused with William M. Hughes, council member in 1927 to 1929.Isaac F. Hughes, known as I.F. Hughes, was a miller, a grocer and a businessman who was the first representative of Los Angeles City Council District 3 after a new city charter went into effect in 1925...
4,981 (elected) / Edwin O. Loucks 2,714
5th
R.S. Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks 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...
4,379 (elected) / John Topham 3,075
6th
Edward E. Moore
Edward E. Moore
Not to be confused with George E. Moore, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–51Edward E. Moore , an attorney and real-estate man, was an Indiana state senator for eight years in the early part of the 20th Century and a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to...
5,237 (elected) / C.W. Clegg 4,656
7th
Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell , first a Socialist and then a Republican, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for ten years in the early 20th Century...
3,477 (elected) / Howard W. Davis
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. 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...
2,482
8th
Frank L. Shaw
Frank L. Shaw
Frank L. 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...
3,546 (elected) / Evan Lewis 2,616 / George F. Gillett 1,410
10th
Charles E. Downs
Charles E. Downs
Charles E. Downs was the first Los Angeles City Council member representing the 10th District after a new city charter went into effect in 1925...
2,972 (elected) / Mark A. Pierce 2,726
11th
Peirson M. Hall
Peirson M. Hall
Peirson Mitchell Hall, known as Peirson M. Hall, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1925 to 1929, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California from 1933 to 1937, a judge in the Los Angeles Superior Court from 1939 to 1940, head of the U.S. Selective Service System for...
3,079 (elected) / Frederick C. Langdon 1,936
12th
A.J. Barnes 3,970 (elected) / E.J. McCully 3,016
13th
Joseph F. Fitzpatrick 3,722 (elected) / Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to 1933. He was tried on a morals charge, and then it was later shown that he was the victim of a frame-up by local police authorities.-Biography:...
3,710 / Joseph L. Pedrotti 2,405
14th
I.C. Ash
Isaac Colton Ash
Isaac Colton Ash was a banker, real-estate dealer and member of the Los Angeles City Council in the 20th century.-Biography:Isaac Colton Ash was a banker, real-estate dealer and member of the Los Angeles City Council in the 20th century.-Biography:Isaac Colton Ash was a banker, real-estate...
6,364 (elected) / Edwin Baker 4,202
15th
Charles J. Colden
Charles J. Colden
Charles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J...
4,750 (elected) / James H. Dodson Jr. 4,596
City Council 1927–29
1stCharles Randall
Charles Hiram Randall
Charles Hiram Randall , known as Charles Randall, was a member of the U.S. Congress, the California State Assembly and the Los Angeles City Council in the 20th Century.-Biography:...
4,691 (elected) / John E. Lambert 2,596 / Frank W. Berkshire 1,676 / Clara McDonald 233
2nd
Arthur Alber
Arthur Alber
Arhur Alber was an attorney and a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1927 to 1929.-Biography:Alber was born September 16, 1892, in Birmingham, Alabama. His parents were Hermann Alber, a native of Germany, and Mary Wing of Cape Cod, Massachusetts...
4,980 (elected) / Robert M. Allan
Robert M. Allan
Robert M. Allan was a member of the City Council in Los Angeles, California, from 1921 to 1927.-Biography:Robert M. Allan was a member of the City Council in Los Angeles, California, from 1921 to 1927.-Biography:...
2,399 / J.F. Anderson 155
3rd
Ernest L. Webster
Ernest L. Webster
Ernest L. Webster was a pioneer automobile dealer in Los Angeles, California, and representative of the 3rd District on the Los Angeles City Council between 1927 and 1931.-Biography:...
1,734 (nominated) / Isaac F. Hughes
Isaac F. Hughes
Not to be confused with William M. Hughes, council member in 1927 to 1929.Isaac F. Hughes, known as I.F. Hughes, was a miller, a grocer and a businessman who was the first representative of Los Angeles City Council District 3 after a new city charter went into effect in 1925...
2,089 (nominated) / John M. Pratt 805 / De Vier Ely 786 / J.C. Barthel 498 / Williams 432 / William Vinson McCoy 298 / E.W. McGill 175
4th
William M. Hughes
William M. Hughes
Not to be confused with Isaac F. Hughes, council member 1925 to 1927.William M. Hughes was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1927 and 1929...
3,286 (elected) / Boyle Workman
Boyle Workman
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...
2,883
5th
Virgil A. Martin
Virgil A. Martin
Virgil A. Martin was a business executive and member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1927 and 1931.-Biography:Martin was born October 15, 1874, in Tecumseh, Nebraska, the son of Judson W. Martin and Ennis C. Smith...
3,153 (nominated) / Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks 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...
2,214 (nominated) / Charles D. Strickler 1,571 / John Topham 1,362 / Alma Nordstrom 475 / Tupper S. Malone 342
6th
Edward E. Moore
Edward E. Moore
Not to be confused with George E. Moore, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–51Edward E. Moore , an attorney and real-estate man, was an Indiana state senator for eight years in the early part of the 20th Century and a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to...
4,757 (nominated) / Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester Rice-Wray was a professor of mathematics at the University of Denver who later was elected to the City Council in Los Angeles, California, and was the first councilman there to face a recall election under the 1925 city charter....
2,642 (nominated) / Bert L. Farmer 2,579 / Thomas H. Hanna 1,421 / Bradford D. Bauens 243
7th
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. 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...
3,305 (elected) / Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell , first a Socialist and then a Republican, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for ten years in the early 20th Century...
2,468 / George W. Grimmer 432 / A. Kreling 162
8th
Frank L. Shaw
Frank L. Shaw
Frank L. 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...
3,785 (elected) / James R. Gentry 1,822 / William F. Vellage 400
9th
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...
3,241 (elected) / M.T. Poling 1,706 / Jon Grand 427
10th
E. Snapper Ingram
E. Snapper Ingram
Ebenezer Snapper Ingram was a Los Angeles City Councilmember representing the 10th District from 1927 until 1935. He went by E. Snapper Ingram.-Biography:...
1,298 (nominated) / John G. Todd 1,060 (nominated) / Otto J. Zahn 1,002 / George D. Hutchison 951 / Joseph J. Meyers 811 / P.M. Abbott 451 / J.A. Bristow 202
11th
Peirson M. Hall
Peirson M. Hall
Peirson Mitchell Hall, known as Peirson M. Hall, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1925 to 1929, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California from 1933 to 1937, a judge in the Los Angeles Superior Court from 1939 to 1940, head of the U.S. Selective Service System for...
2,874 (elected) / H.E. Binkley 1,009 / Frank H. Mouser 981
12th
Official recount: Douglas Eads Foster
Douglas Eads Foster
Douglas Eads Foster was a Los Angeles, California, dentist who served on the City Council of that city between 1927 and 1929.-Biography:...
3,628 (nominated) / Clarence W. Horn 1,921 (nominated) / A.J. Barnes 1,912 / R.M. Angier 219
13th
Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to 1933. He was tried on a morals charge, and then it was later shown that he was the victim of a frame-up by local police authorities.-Biography:...
4,585 (elected) / William M. Byrne 3,162 / William Rudolph 522 / James G. King 259 / Oscar W. Odell 138 / John E. Arnold 109 / Albert G. Sloan 107
14th
William G. Bonelli
William G. Bonelli
William G. Bonelli was a California politician who became a powerful member of the state Board of Equalization and fled to Mexico to avoid arrest on a corruption indictment.-Biography:...
5,760 (elected) / Harrie R. Collins 1,392 / Andrew S. Wilson 1,251 / A.H. Nickel 584 / Harold P. Fetter 566 / Karl F. Schweitzer 501 / Helga M. Qually 457 / Robert E. Parrott 199
15th
Charles J. Colden
Charles J. Colden
Charles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J...
5,661 (elected) / Reimiller 1,372 / Edwards 1,322 / Cox 646 / Maginnis 365 / Chais 212 / Anderson 164
City Council 1927–29
3rdErnest L. Webster
Ernest L. Webster
Ernest L. Webster was a pioneer automobile dealer in Los Angeles, California, and representative of the 3rd District on the Los Angeles City Council between 1927 and 1931.-Biography:...
9,608 (elected) / Isaac F. Hughes
Isaac F. Hughes
Not to be confused with William M. Hughes, council member in 1927 to 1929.Isaac F. Hughes, known as I.F. Hughes, was a miller, a grocer and a businessman who was the first representative of Los Angeles City Council District 3 after a new city charter went into effect in 1925...
2,386
5th
Virgil A. Martin
Virgil A. Martin
Virgil A. Martin was a business executive and member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1927 and 1931.-Biography:Martin was born October 15, 1874, in Tecumseh, Nebraska, the son of Judson W. Martin and Ennis C. Smith...
7,843 (elected) / Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks 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...
2,889
6th
Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester Rice-Wray was a professor of mathematics at the University of Denver who later was elected to the City Council in Los Angeles, California, and was the first councilman there to face a recall election under the 1925 city charter....
8,327 (elected) / Edward E. Moore
Edward E. Moore
Not to be confused with George E. Moore, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–51Edward E. Moore , an attorney and real-estate man, was an Indiana state senator for eight years in the early part of the 20th Century and a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to...
4,757
10th
E. Snapper Ingram
E. Snapper Ingram
Ebenezer Snapper Ingram was a Los Angeles City Councilmember representing the 10th District from 1927 until 1935. He went by E. Snapper Ingram.-Biography:...
3,746 (elected) / Todd 2,855
12th
Douglas Eads Foster
Douglas Eads Foster
Douglas Eads Foster was a Los Angeles, California, dentist who served on the City Council of that city between 1927 and 1929.-Biography:...
5,319 (elected) / Horn 3,012
1928 recall
Three precincts missing.For the recall of Council Member Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester Rice-Wray was a professor of mathematics at the University of Denver who later was elected to the City Council in Los Angeles, California, and was the first councilman there to face a recall election under the 1925 city charter....
10,168 (recalled) / against 5,872
In the election to succeed Rice-Wray: James G. McAllister
James G. McAllister
Not to be confused with Robert S. MacAlister, Los Angeles City Council member 1934–39James G. McAllister was a 20th century rancher and miner who was on the Utah Board of Equalization and later was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1928 to 1933.-Biography:McAllister was...
8,168 (elected) / Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester Rice-Wray was a professor of mathematics at the University of Denver who later was elected to the City Council in Los Angeles, California, and was the first councilman there to face a recall election under the 1925 city charter....
5,776 / Frank Jones 2,375
Citywide 1929–33
MayorJohn C. Porter 75,198 (nominated / William G. Bonelli
William G. Bonelli
William G. Bonelli was a California politician who became a powerful member of the state Board of Equalization and fled to Mexico to avoid arrest on a corruption indictment.-Biography:...
45,200 (nominated) / John R. Quinn 39,425 / Perry H. Greer 22,022 / William La Plante 8,182 / Charles J. Colden
Charles J. Colden
Charles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J. Colden was a 20th century California politician who served in the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress.Charles J...
4,331 / Carlin G. Smith 3,550 / Nicholas B. Harris 3,503 / Lloyd S. Nix 2,361 / Boyle Workman
Boyle Workman
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...
2,057 / Charles Hopper 207 / Ralph L. Knapp 188 / Adam C. Derkum 179 / David Horsley 73
Controller
John S. Myers
John S. Myers
John S. Myers served as Los Angeles City Auditor and Los Angeles City Controller for a total of 28 years.Meyers served as Auditor of the City of Los Angeles longer than anyone else. He succeeded William C. Mushet in 1909 and held the title of Auditor until it was changed to Controller in 1925 under...
129,251 (elected) / John R. Gaudin 28,729
City attorney
Erwin P. Werner 82,094 (nominated) / Peirson M. Hall
Peirson M. Hall
Peirson Mitchell Hall, known as Peirson M. Hall, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1925 to 1929, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California from 1933 to 1937, a judge in the Los Angeles Superior Court from 1939 to 1940, head of the U.S. Selective Service System for...
(nominated) 61,226 / Donald M. Keith 33,698 / Leslie H. Kranz 4,794
City Council 1929–31
1stCharles Randall
Charles Hiram Randall
Charles Hiram Randall , known as Charles Randall, was a member of the U.S. Congress, the California State Assembly and the Los Angeles City Council in the 20th Century.-Biography:...
4,734 (nominated) / W.C. McColl 2, 247 (nominated) / Charles G. Young 1,346 / Truitt W. Hughes 1,025 / Estelle M. Holman 384
2nd
Thomas E. Cooke 7,486 (elected) / P.W. Croake / 1,814 / Milton H. Withers 1,314 / Robert D. Clarke 851 / Jesse McComas 656
3rd
Ernest L. Webster
Ernest L. Webster
Ernest L. Webster was a pioneer automobile dealer in Los Angeles, California, and representative of the 3rd District on the Los Angeles City Council between 1927 and 1931.-Biography:...
7,800 (elected) / J. Walter Kays 3,875 / Albert J. Chotiner 2,037
4th
Robert L. Burns 4,312 (nominated) / William M. Hughes
William M. Hughes
Not to be confused with Isaac F. Hughes, council member 1925 to 1927.William M. Hughes was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1927 and 1929...
3,313 (nominated) / Neal P. Olsen 1,752 / Willard G. Thorpe 1,560
5th
Virgil A. Martin
Virgil A. Martin
Virgil A. Martin was a business executive and member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1927 and 1931.-Biography:Martin was born October 15, 1874, in Tecumseh, Nebraska, the son of Judson W. Martin and Ennis C. Smith...
5,397 (nominated) / S. DeVier Ely 2,856 (nominated) / Joseph Oberwise 1,886 / Byron B. Brainard 1,623 / U.S. Frye 818
6th
James G. McAllister
James G. McAllister
Not to be confused with Robert S. MacAlister, Los Angeles City Council member 1934–39James G. McAllister was a 20th century rancher and miner who was on the Utah Board of Equalization and later was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1928 to 1933.-Biography:McAllister was...
6,676 (elected) / John A. Westrom 1,980 / Charles K. Elliott 1,165 / George A. Lynch 744 / H.J. Grimes 575 / Thomas F. Franklin 554
7th Howard W. Davis
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. 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...
6,408 (elected) / E.J. Nagle 2,447 / Charles L. Ryan 1,285 / George W. Grimmer 1,022 / Willis W. Fuller 903
8th Evan Lewis 2,743 (nominated) / James Gentry 1,932 (nominated) / J.W. Toms 1,873 / Harold F. Marsden 1,786 / Harry F. Burke 1,784 / C.R. McFadden 888 / L.B. Bueter 537 / William T. Connor 391 / Peter Casserly 293 / Don Lake 179
9th
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...
4,356 (nominated) / Frank Belcher (nominated) 2,655 / John Veith 1,520 / Lester M. Steele 1, 118 / John Grand 341
10th
E. Snapper Ingram
E. Snapper Ingram
Ebenezer Snapper Ingram was a Los Angeles City Councilmember representing the 10th District from 1927 until 1935. He went by E. Snapper Ingram.-Biography:...
6,073 (elected) / George Underwood 3,045 / William J. Durm 1,304 / G.S. Mattern 573 / H.N. Witt, 356
11th
Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester Rice-Wray was a professor of mathematics at the University of Denver who later was elected to the City Council in Los Angeles, California, and was the first councilman there to face a recall election under the 1925 city charter....
3,054 (nominated) / J.C. Barthel
J.C. Barthel
Julius C. Barthel, who went by J.C. Barthel, was an engineer and politician who was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1929 to 1931.-Biography:...
1,757 (nominated) / Edward A. Gerety Sr. 1,749 / Alfred A. Newton 1,482 / John T. Connelly 1,398 / Thomas F. Padden 1,277 / Nora O. Weaver 1,085 / Thomas H. Hanna 916 / Arthur Hirschhorn 675 / A.V. Dedrick 458
12th
Douglas Eads Foster
Douglas Eads Foster
Douglas Eads Foster was a Los Angeles, California, dentist who served on the City Council of that city between 1927 and 1929.-Biography:...
5,219 (nominated) / Thomas W. Williams 3,168 (nominated) / J. Stanley Farlinger 1,708 / Frank E. Fensch 1,535 / William N. Wenning 1,423 / William Francis Ireland 866
13th
Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to 1933. He was tried on a morals charge, and then it was later shown that he was the victim of a frame-up by local police authorities.-Biography:...
7,039 (elected) / Leslie R. Saunders 1,872 / Bearl Sprott 1,564 / Frederick W. Ferguson 815 / William B. Ferguson 624 / Walter L. La Pointe 602 / Wayne C. Stewart 276
14th
Charles A. Holland
Charles A. Holland
Charles Alfred Holland , who went by Charles A. Holland, was a University of Southern California football captain, a businessman and a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1929 and 1931.-Biography:...
5,326 (nominated) / Sherrill H. Osborne 2,687 (nominated) / Edward L. Thrasher 1,733 / Earl S. Parker 1,311 / James E. Long Sr. 1,182 / Lee R. Williams 1,064 / Ernest D. Snow 802 / Oscar Fifer 768 / J.E. Bambaugh 349 / Donald W. Spooner 257
15th
James E. Dodson Jr. 2,903 (nominated) / A.E. Henning
A.E. Henning
August E. Henning, known as A.E. Henning, was a civil engineer and businessman who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1929 and 1933, disbursement officer for the California State Emergency Relief Administration from 1934 to 1937 and chief of the Park Division, California...
2,780 (nominated) / Frank McGinley 2,745 / C.F. Sampson 2,144 / Edward Kosin 500 / Wilmer E. Bromley 391 / Arthur L. Frazee 159
Citywide 1929–1933
MayorJohn C. Porter 151,905 (elected) / William G. Bonelli
William G. Bonelli
William G. Bonelli was a California politician who became a powerful member of the state Board of Equalization and fled to Mexico to avoid arrest on a corruption indictment.-Biography:...
106,515
City attorney
Erwin P. Werner 152,566 (elected) / Peirson M. Hall
Peirson M. Hall
Peirson Mitchell Hall, known as Peirson M. Hall, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1925 to 1929, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California from 1933 to 1937, a judge in the Los Angeles Superior Court from 1939 to 1940, head of the U.S. Selective Service System for...
82,444
City Council 1929–1931
1stCharles Randall
Charles Hiram Randall
Charles Hiram Randall , known as Charles Randall, was a member of the U.S. Congress, the California State Assembly and the Los Angeles City Council in the 20th Century.-Biography:...
8,529 (elected) / McColl 7,375
4th
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns was a Los Angeles school board member between 1923 and 1929 and Los Angeles City Council member between 1929 and 1945. He previously was on the school board in Hutchinson, Kansas. At his death in 1955, he was described as Los Angeles's "elder statesman."Robert L...
7,763 (elected) / Hughes 6,599
5th
Virgil A. Martin
Virgil A. Martin
Virgil A. Martin was a business executive and member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1927 and 1931.-Biography:Martin was born October 15, 1874, in Tecumseh, Nebraska, the son of Judson W. Martin and Ennis C. Smith...
9.039 (elected) / Ely 7,490
8th
Evan Lewis 8,119 (elected) / Gentry 7,380
9th
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...
7,396 (elected) / Belcher 5,550
11th
J.C. Barthel
J.C. Barthel
Julius C. Barthel, who went by J.C. Barthel, was an engineer and politician who was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1929 to 1931.-Biography:...
11,410 (elected) / Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester Rice-Wray was a professor of mathematics at the University of Denver who later was elected to the City Council in Los Angeles, California, and was the first councilman there to face a recall election under the 1925 city charter....
6,637
12th
Thomas W. Williams 9,461 (elected) / Douglas Eads Foster
Douglas Eads Foster
Douglas Eads Foster was a Los Angeles, California, dentist who served on the City Council of that city between 1927 and 1929.-Biography:...
8,234
14th
Charles A. Holland 10,838 (elected) / Osborne 7,975
15th
A.E. Henning
A.E. Henning
August E. Henning, known as A.E. Henning, was a civil engineer and businessman who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1929 and 1933, disbursement officer for the California State Emergency Relief Administration from 1934 to 1937 and chief of the Park Division, California...
8,666 (elected) / Dodson 7,500
City Council 1931–33
1stCharles Randall
Charles Hiram Randall
Charles Hiram Randall , known as Charles Randall, was a member of the U.S. Congress, the California State Assembly and the Los Angeles City Council in the 20th Century.-Biography:...
5,856 (elected) / William C. McColl 3,732 / Frank W. Rice 888
2nd
Thomas F. Cooke
Thomas F. Cooke
Thomas F. Cooke was an Iowa and California banker and a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, between 1929 and 1931.-Biography:...
2,716 (nominated) / James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde was a metallurgist who was noted for inventing a process that revolutionized the American mining industry. He was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1931 to 1939.-Biography:...
2,618 (nominated) / Henry G. Lyman 1,962 / Edward L. Davin 587
3rd
Ernest L. Webster
Ernest L. Webster
Ernest L. Webster was a pioneer automobile dealer in Los Angeles, California, and representative of the 3rd District on the Los Angeles City Council between 1927 and 1931.-Biography:...
5,021 (nominated) / James Stuart McKnight 4,081 (nominated) / Abram C. Denman 2,028 / D.W. MacMillan 317
4th
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns was a Los Angeles school board member between 1923 and 1929 and Los Angeles City Council member between 1929 and 1945. He previously was on the school board in Hutchinson, Kansas. At his death in 1955, he was described as Los Angeles's "elder statesman."Robert L...
3,607 (nominated) / H.Z. Osborne 2,601 (nominated) / A.J. Spencer 659 / Leonard O. Hall 468 / A.E. Raessler 147
5th
Virgil A. Martin
Virgil A. Martin
Virgil A. Martin was a business executive and member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1927 and 1931.-Biography:Martin was born October 15, 1874, in Tecumseh, Nebraska, the son of Judson W. Martin and Ennis C. Smith...
2,954 (recount, nominated) / Roy Donley
Roy Donley
Roy L. Donley was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from the Fifth District in 1931 and 1932. He was also deputy United States Internal Revenue collector....
1,766 (recount, nominated / Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard was an electrician, auto mechanic, auto salesman, real estate broker and community newspaper editor who was also a Los Angeles City Council member between 1933 and 1939.-Biography:Byron B...
1,745 (recount, failed) / Frank J. Waters 1,584 / Joseph Oberwise 977 / Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks
Robert Stewart Sparks 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...
321 / Sidney A. Wilson 304 / Victor E. Breul 119
6th
James G. McAllister
James G. McAllister
Not to be confused with Robert S. MacAlister, Los Angeles City Council member 1934–39James G. McAllister was a 20th century rancher and miner who was on the Utah Board of Equalization and later was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1928 to 1933.-Biography:McAllister was...
4,540 (elected) / Charles L. Clark 2,141 / Claude R. Read 1,591 / Oliver K. Jones 243 / George I. Hughes 217
7th
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. 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...
4,466 (elected) / Ralph L. Criswell 2,995 / Edward J. Nagle 908 / George Grant 462
8th
Evan Lewis 3,627 (nominated) / John S. Horn 1,713 (nominated) / James R. Gentry 1,480 / Ernest E. Debs
Ernest E. Debs
Ernest Eugene Debs , who went by Ernest E. Debs, was a California State Assembly member from 1942 to 1947, a Los Angeles city councilman from 1947 to 1958 and a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1958 to 1974....
430 / Harry F. Burke 410 / L.B. Bueter 389 / Daniel J. O'Mara 227 / Thomas De Fabries 117
9th
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...
3,044 (nominated) / George W.C. Baker 2,868 (nominated) / Frank Belcher 2,014 / William W. Busic 1,118 / John Vieth 814 / John W. Greenwood 332 / Sam Shulem 191
10th
E. Snapper Ingram
E. Snapper Ingram
Ebenezer Snapper Ingram was a Los Angeles City Councilmember representing the 10th District from 1927 until 1935. He went by E. Snapper Ingram.-Biography:...
3,336 (nominated) / George Underwood 2,598 (nominated) / George A. Pendleton 1,745 / George A. Bell 545 / Joseph F. Curran 438
11th
J.C. Barthel
J.C. Barthel
Julius C. Barthel, who went by J.C. Barthel, was an engineer and politician who was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1929 to 1931.-Biography:...
1,958 (nominated) / Clarence E. Coe
Clarence E. Coe
Clarence Elliot Coe , known as Clarence E. Coe, was one of the first settlers and farmers in Palms, California, and a member of the Los Angeles Police Commission from 1929 to 1931 and of the Los Angeles City Council from 1931 to 1933....
1,535 (nominated) / Louis L. Goodman 1,456 / Charles H. Treat 1,126 / Edward J. Morgan 1,010 / Thomas F. Padden 839 / Edward A. Gerety Sr. 723/ Arthur Johnson 587 / John B. Young 539 / Glen Ingles 483 / Sidney A. Cherniss 378 / Stanley Sayer 362 / Philip Baldwin 124 / Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester R. Rice-Wray
Lester Rice-Wray was a professor of mathematics at the University of Denver who later was elected to the City Council in Los Angeles, California, and was the first councilman there to face a recall election under the 1925 city charter....
120 / T.S. Aisbitt 55
12th
Thomas Francis Ford 4,236 (nominated) / Douglas Eads Foster
Douglas Eads Foster
Douglas Eads Foster was a Los Angeles, California, dentist who served on the City Council of that city between 1927 and 1929.-Biography:...
3,136 (nominated) / Miles S. Gregory 2,424 / Lyndon R. Foster 379 / Daniel Ballmer 293
13th
Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to 1933. He was tried on a morals charge, and then it was later shown that he was the victim of a frame-up by local police authorities.-Biography:...
3,802 (nominated) / Henry E. Holbrook 1,141 (nominated) / A. Judson Samis 978 / Joseph Napolitano 972 / Leslie R. Saunders 827 / H.J. O'Neill 658 / Claude C. Brooks 612 / Roy Hampton
Roy Hampton
Roy Hampton was an attorney, ex-Marine and former journalist who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1939 to 1943...
555 / Andrew G. Vaughn 164 / Joseph Despart 142 / Florence E. Gilmour 73
14th
Charles A. Holland
Charles A. Holland
Charles Alfred Holland , who went by Charles A. Holland, was a University of Southern California football captain, a businessman and a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1929 and 1931.-Biography:...
4,903 (nominated) / Edward L. Thrasher
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward Lee Thrasher , who went by Edward L. Thrasher, was a builder, contractor and decorator who served on the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1931 and 1942.-Biography:...
2,654 (nominated) / Thomas L. Doherty 1,938 / A.E. Nelson 1,075 / W.K. Dowan 1,091 / Joseph Reece 602 / Emmett L. Pickerel 45
15th
A.E. Henning
A.E. Henning
August E. Henning, known as A.E. Henning, was a civil engineer and businessman who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1929 and 1933, disbursement officer for the California State Emergency Relief Administration from 1934 to 1937 and chief of the Park Division, California...
5,604 (nominated) / Frank McGinley 5,490 (nominated) / Alick W. Anderson 444 / Fred C. Hermann 254
City Council 1931–33
2ndJames M. Hyde
James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde was a metallurgist who was noted for inventing a process that revolutionized the American mining industry. He was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1931 to 1939.-Biography:...
5,258 (elected) / Thomas F. Cooke
Thomas F. Cooke
Thomas F. Cooke was an Iowa and California banker and a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, between 1929 and 1931.-Biography:...
4,861
3rd
James Stuart McKnight 7,866 (elected) / Ernest L. Webster 6,687
4th
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns was a Los Angeles school board member between 1923 and 1929 and Los Angeles City Council member between 1929 and 1945. He previously was on the school board in Hutchinson, Kansas. At his death in 1955, he was described as Los Angeles's "elder statesman."Robert L...
5,399 (elected) / Henry Z. Osborne 5,093
5th
Roy L. Donley
Roy Donley
Roy L. Donley was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from the Fifth District in 1931 and 1932. He was also deputy United States Internal Revenue collector....
5,671 (elected) / Virgil A. Martin
Virgil A. Martin
Virgil A. Martin was a business executive and member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1927 and 1931.-Biography:Martin was born October 15, 1874, in Tecumseh, Nebraska, the son of Judson W. Martin and Ennis C. Smith...
5,510
8th
Evan Lewis 7,241 (elected) / John S. Horn 3,701
9th
George W.C. Baker (elected) 6,881 / Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...
6,019
10th
E. Snapper Ingram
E. Snapper Ingram
Ebenezer Snapper Ingram was a Los Angeles City Councilmember representing the 10th District from 1927 until 1935. He went by E. Snapper Ingram.-Biography:...
5,807 (elected) / George Underwood 4,891
11th
Clarence E. Coe
Clarence E. Coe
Clarence Elliot Coe , known as Clarence E. Coe, was one of the first settlers and farmers in Palms, California, and a member of the Los Angeles Police Commission from 1929 to 1931 and of the Los Angeles City Council from 1931 to 1933....
5,460 (elected) / Charles W. Dempster 4,444 / J.C. Barthel
J.C. Barthel
Julius C. Barthel, who went by J.C. Barthel, was an engineer and politician who was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1929 to 1931.-Biography:...
3,621
12th
Thomas Francis Ford 8,315 (elected) / Douglas E. Foster 5,882
13th
Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to 1933. He was tried on a morals charge, and then it was later shown that he was the victim of a frame-up by local police authorities.-Biography:...
6,424 (elected) / Henry E. Holbrook 5,070
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward Lee Thrasher , who went by Edward L. Thrasher, was a builder, contractor and decorator who served on the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1931 and 1942.-Biography:...
7,569 (elected) / Charles A. Holland
Charles A. Holland
Charles Alfred Holland , who went by Charles A. Holland, was a University of Southern California football captain, a businessman and a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1929 and 1931.-Biography:...
7,009
15th
A.E. Henning
A.E. Henning
August E. Henning, known as A.E. Henning, was a civil engineer and businessman who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1929 and 1933, disbursement officer for the California State Emergency Relief Administration from 1934 to 1937 and chief of the Park Division, California...
9,611 (elected) / Frank McGinley 8,213
Citywide 1933–37
MayorFrank L. Shaw
Frank L. Shaw
Frank L. 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...
118,775 (nominated) / John C. Porter (nominated) 111.540 / George E. Cryer 36,193 / Charles W. Dempster 35,285 / Charles S. Hutson 10,639 / Frank C. Shoemaker 5,339 / Chaim Shapiro 4,702 / Martin C. Neuner 3,511 / George H. McLain
George H. McLain
George H. McLain was a United States Democratic politician from California.He is best known for running in California's democratic presidential primary in 1960...
2,354 / Lawrence Ross 2,311
Controller
John S. Myers 169,561 (elected) / James C. Quinn 95,702
City attorney
Ray L. Chesbro 155,335 (elected) / Erwin P. Werner 140,827
City Council 1933-35
1stJim Wilson
Jim Wilson (Los Angeles)
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....
4,958 (nominated) / Charles H. Randall (nominated) 4,889 / Mark C. Sutton 3,653 / Sterling Martin 1,661 / George C. Audet 1,074 / Ray A. Schafer 950 / George Mozee 835 / George E. Menner 728 / Harry E. Beatty 485
2nd
James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde was a metallurgist who was noted for inventing a process that revolutionized the American mining industry. He was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1931 to 1939.-Biography:...
5,629 (nominated) / Leon N. Raab 3,922 (nominated) / William C. Harvey 2,886 / Harry B. Leonard 2,263 / E.D. Horkheimer 1,101
3rd
Stephen W. Cunningham
Stephen W. Cunningham
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.-Biography:Stephen W...
7,016 (nominated) / James S. McKnight 2,884 (nominated) / R.L. Joyner 2,028 / Albert Jack Chotiner 1,572 / Robert Bonner 1,120 / Paul V. Parker 900 / George A. Heap 893 / Harry W. Boles 830 / Vance Evans 403
4th
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns was a Los Angeles school board member between 1923 and 1929 and Los Angeles City Council member between 1929 and 1945. He previously was on the school board in Hutchinson, Kansas. At his death in 1955, he was described as Los Angeles's "elder statesman."Robert L...
8,446 (elected) / H.Z. Osborne 5,068 / P.F. Jordan 1,417 / Julius Krieger 1,162
5th
Roy L. Donley
Roy Donley
Roy L. Donley was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from the Fifth District in 1931 and 1932. He was also deputy United States Internal Revenue collector....
8,618 (nominated) / Byron B. Brainard 6,090 / Virgil A. Martin 4,305
6th
James G. McAllister
James G. McAllister
Not to be confused with Robert S. MacAlister, Los Angeles City Council member 1934–39James G. McAllister was a 20th century rancher and miner who was on the Utah Board of Equalization and later was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1928 to 1933.-Biography:McAllister was...
8,528 (nominated) / Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C...
3,820 (nominated) / Lee D. Matthews 2,960 / Harry E. Defty 2,724 / J. Earl Scott 1,371 / Charles Hopper 1,084
7th
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. 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...
9,361 (elected) / Bert L. Farmer 3,386 / Alex Salot 1,417 / C.C. Terzo 1,061
8th
Evan Lewis 7,074 (nominated) / James R. Gentry 5,322 (nominated) / Jacob Massion 4,438 / Ezra W. Chase 516
9th
George W.C. Baker 11,855 (elected) / Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...
4,122 / H.A. Weiner 2,715 / James Scofield 1,663
10th
E. Snapper Ingram
E. Snapper Ingram
Ebenezer Snapper Ingram was a Los Angeles City Councilmember representing the 10th District from 1927 until 1935. He went by E. Snapper Ingram.-Biography:...
7,886 (elected) / Thomas D. Long 6,423
11th
Clarence E. Coe
Clarence E. Coe
Clarence Elliot Coe , known as Clarence E. Coe, was one of the first settlers and farmers in Palms, California, and a member of the Los Angeles Police Commission from 1929 to 1931 and of the Los Angeles City Council from 1931 to 1933....
4,711 (nominated) / Charles Winchester Breedlove
Charles Winchester Breedlove
Charles Winchester Breedlove was an invalided U.S. Marine, an actor and a motion picture director who died in office while a member of the Los Angeles City Council in the 1930s.-Biography:...
1,884 (nominated) / Arthur Johnson 1,718 / L.l. Goodman 1,510 / Ted E. Felt 1,221 / G.N. Kirkman 1,183 / G.C. Baker 995 / J.G. Levenson 926 / J.C. Barthel 570
12th, unexpired term of Council Member Thomas Francis Ford
James T. Carroll
James T. Carroll
James T. 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.-Biography:...
8,224 (elected) / George W. Scott 6,651
12th, full term
John W. Baumgartner
John W. Baumgartner
John Walter Baumgartner was a civil engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1933 to 1945.-Biography:...
9,253 (nominated) / Charles A. McNeill 5,356 (nominated) / Miles S. Gregory 3,988
13th
Darwin W. Tate 6,081 (nominated) / Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to 1933. He was tried on a morals charge, and then it was later shown that he was the victim of a frame-up by local police authorities.-Biography:...
5,624 (nominated) / James E. Keogh 2,659 / R.V. McClain 860 / Henry Reichard 427
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward Lee Thrasher , who went by Edward L. Thrasher, was a builder, contractor and decorator who served on the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1931 and 1942.-Biography:...
8,624 (nominated) / L. Roy Williams 6,116 (nominated) / Thomas L. Doherty 3,461 / William Authorson 827
15th
A.E. Henning
A.E. Henning
August E. Henning, known as A.E. Henning, was a civil engineer and businessman who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1929 and 1933, disbursement officer for the California State Emergency Relief Administration from 1934 to 1937 and chief of the Park Division, California...
5,905 (nominated) / Franklin P. Buyer 3,481 (nominated) / F.O. Adler 3,348 / N.A. Smith 1,351 / Gus H. Homer 855 / Irvin G. Lewis 828 / George H. Nixon 761
Citywide 1933–37
MayorFrank L. Shaw
Frank L. Shaw
Frank L. 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...
187,053 (elected) / John C. Porter 155,513
City Council 1933-35
1stJim Wilson
Jim Wilson (Los Angeles)
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....
15,693 (elected) / Charles Randall
Charles Hiram Randall
Charles Hiram Randall , known as Charles Randall, was a member of the U.S. Congress, the California State Assembly and the Los Angeles City Council in the 20th Century.-Biography:...
8,375
2nd
James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde was a metallurgist who was noted for inventing a process that revolutionized the American mining industry. He was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1931 to 1939.-Biography:...
10,474 (elected) / Leon N. Raab 9,813
3rd
Stephen W. Cunningham
Stephen W. Cunningham
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.-Biography:Stephen W...
15,698 (elected) / James Stuart McKnight 5,582
5th
Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard was an electrician, auto mechanic, auto salesman, real estate broker and community newspaper editor who was also a Los Angeles City Council member between 1933 and 1939.-Biography:Byron B...
13,163 (elected) / Roy Donley
Roy Donley
Roy L. Donley was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from the Fifth District in 1931 and 1932. He was also deputy United States Internal Revenue collector....
10,499
6th
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C...
12,131 (elected) / James G. McAllister
James G. McAllister
Not to be confused with Robert S. MacAlister, Los Angeles City Council member 1934–39James G. McAllister was a 20th century rancher and miner who was on the Utah Board of Equalization and later was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1928 to 1933.-Biography:McAllister was...
11,856
8th
Evan Lewis 12,953 (elected) / James R. Gentry 12,129
11th
Charles Winchester Breedlove
Charles Winchester Breedlove
Charles Winchester Breedlove was an invalided U.S. Marine, an actor and a motion picture director who died in office while a member of the Los Angeles City Council in the 1930s.-Biography:...
11,275 (elected) / Clarence E. Coe
Clarence E. Coe
Clarence Elliot Coe , known as Clarence E. Coe, was one of the first settlers and farmers in Palms, California, and a member of the Los Angeles Police Commission from 1929 to 1931 and of the Los Angeles City Council from 1931 to 1933....
9,082
12th
John W. Baumgartner
John W. Baumgartner
John Walter Baumgartner was a civil engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1933 to 1945.-Biography:...
13,894 (elected) / C.A. McNeill 9,343
13th
Darwin William Tate
Darwin William Tate
Darwin William Tate , who went by Darwin W. Tate, was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1933 and 1939 and chief of the California Division of State Beaches and Parks from 1939 to 1942.-Biography:...
14,043 (elected) / Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to 1933. He was tried on a morals charge, and then it was later shown that he was the victim of a frame-up by local police authorities.-Biography:...
7,823
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward Lee Thrasher , who went by Edward L. Thrasher, was a builder, contractor and decorator who served on the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1931 and 1942.-Biography:...
14,675 (elected) / L.R. Williams 9,997
15th
Franklin P. Buyer 11,354 (elected) / A.E. Henning 10,290
City Council 1935-37
EPIC after a name indicates endorsement by End Poverty in California1st
Jim Wilson
Jim Wilson (Los Angeles)
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....
7,940 (nominated) / Barclay W. Bradley (EPIC) 6,533 (nominated) / John H. Fritz 1,782 / Donald W. Moore 1,144 / George Salisbury 382
2nd
James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde was a metallurgist who was noted for inventing a process that revolutionized the American mining industry. He was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1931 to 1939.-Biography:...
(EPIC) 6,346 (nominated) / Edmund R. Bohan 6,346 (nominated) / William D. Neil 2,443 / Frank H. Greer 946 / James Quinn 927 / Carleton Bainbridge 510
3rd
Stephen W. Cunningham
Stephen W. Cunningham
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.-Biography:Stephen W...
10,701 (elected) / James M. Carter (EPIC) 4,687
4th
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns was a Los Angeles school board member between 1923 and 1929 and Los Angeles City Council member between 1929 and 1945. He previously was on the school board in Hutchinson, Kansas. At his death in 1955, he was described as Los Angeles's "elder statesman."Robert L...
9,056 (elected) / G. Howard Fenton 2,375 / Roy Wheeler (EPIC write-in) 1,478
5th
Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard was an electrician, auto mechanic, auto salesman, real estate broker and community newspaper editor who was also a Los Angeles City Council member between 1933 and 1939.-Biography:Byron B...
8,687 (nominated) / Charles W. Dempster (EPIC) 6,590 (nominated) / Dan Crowley 846 / Martin B. Kugler 722 / Eleanor Savay 665
6th
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C...
8,256 (nominated) / Lottie Barkow (EPIC) 3,706 (nominated) / Andrae B. Nordskog 1,497 / Louis E. Ottie 1,320 / L.E. Orr 990 / Charles N. Rapfogel 916 / Harry E. Defty 688 / Douglas J. Hamilton 618 / Charlie Hopper 401 / Charles E. Fergason 394
7th
Will H. Kindig
Will H. Kindig
William Harvey Kindig , known as Will H. Kindig or W.H. 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.-Biography:Kindig moved to California...
(EPIC) 5,514 (nominated) / Dwight Baker 3,927 (nominated) / Homer Crutchfield 2,674 / Horace A. Wilson 1,336 / John J. Marstellar 364
8th
Evan Lewis 7,438 (nominated) / Arthur P. Moran (EPIC) 4,119 (nominated) / Jack Massion 3,313 / Leo S. Tilley 2,234 / Earl Heller 705
9th
Parley Parker Christensen (EPIC) 5,542 (nominated) / George W.C. Baker 5,437 (nominated) / Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...
2,071 / Jack Y. Berman 1,909 / William L. Cummings 1,607 / Karlton I. Pidgeon 1,031 / Howard E. Dorsey 689 / R.E. Lucatoria 666 /
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
G. Vernon Bennett
Guy Vernon Bennett , also known as G. Vernon Bennett, was superintendent of schools in Pomona, California; a professor of education at the University of Southern California, and a Los Angeles city councilman from the 10th District from 1935 to 1951...
(EPIC) 5,974 (nominated) / E. Snapper Ingram
E. Snapper Ingram
Ebenezer Snapper Ingram was a Los Angeles City Councilmember representing the 10th District from 1927 until 1935. He went by E. Snapper Ingram.-Biography:...
5,810 (nominated) / Karl F. Euper 899 / Allan M. Rose 703 / Austin L. Tournoux 387 / Lenna G. Walradt 371
11th Unexpired term of Charles Winchester Breedlove
Charles Winchester Breedlove
Charles Winchester Breedlove was an invalided U.S. Marine, an actor and a motion picture director who died in office while a member of the Los Angeles City Council in the 1930s.-Biography:...
Robert S. MacAlister
Robert S. MacAlister
Not to be confused with James G. McAllister, Los Angeles City Council member 1928–33Robert Stuart MacAlister , who went by Robert S. MacAlister, was an oil-well-supplies salesman and a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1934 and 1939.-Biography:MacAlister was born on May...
6,190 (elected) / Arthur Johnson 2,193 / Charles W. Hooper 1,902 / Jack J. Casson 1,186
11th Full term
Robert S. MacAlister
Robert S. MacAlister
Not to be confused with James G. McAllister, Los Angeles City Council member 1928–33Robert Stuart MacAlister , who went by Robert S. MacAlister, was an oil-well-supplies salesman and a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1934 and 1939.-Biography:MacAlister was born on May...
4,267 (nominated) / Howard B. Rose (EPIC) 3,961 (nominated) / J.W. O'Connor 1,426 / Charles W. Hooper 1,401 / Arthur Johnson 1,312 / Louis L. Goodman 1,143 / Alfred Watterson 896 / Jack J. Casson 472 / Edward W. McGill 464 / David MacFarlane 362 / H. Clarke Trigg 344 / Fred W. Bentine 118
12th
John W. Baumgartner
John W. Baumgartner
John Walter Baumgartner was a civil engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1933 to 1945.-Biography:...
(EPIC) 10,676 (elected) / Charles A. McNeill 5,823 / Harry Lee Jones (write-in) 213
13th
Darwin William Tate
Darwin William Tate
Darwin William Tate , who went by Darwin W. Tate, was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1933 and 1939 and chief of the California Division of State Beaches and Parks from 1939 to 1942.-Biography:...
9,164 (elected) / Rube Borough (EPIC) 5,429 / James E. Moore 1,182 / Sam D. Barry 522 / Clarence H. Bright 506 / Walter R. Mozee 251
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward Lee Thrasher , who went by Edward L. Thrasher, was a builder, contractor and decorator who served on the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1931 and 1942.-Biography:...
7,889 (nominated) / Royal M. Davis (EPIC) 3,343 (nominated) / L. Roy Williams 3,039 / Harold P. Fetter 1,855 / Lewis C. Martyn 898 / Frank J. Rogers 883 / Harmond B. Amacker 828 / Robert E. Rose 769
15th
Edwin G. Gettins (EPIC) 5,629 (nominated) 5,629 / Franklin P. Buyer 5,407 (nominated) / Royal S. Riddle 2,073 / Frederick O. Adler 1,882 / John T. Rawls 1,422
City Council 1935-37
1stJim Wilson
Jim Wilson (Los Angeles)
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....
11,109 (elected) / Bradley W. Barclay 8,952
2nd
James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde was a metallurgist who was noted for inventing a process that revolutionized the American mining industry. He was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1931 to 1939.-Biography:...
7,652 (elected) / Edmund R. Bohan 7,234
5th
Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard was an electrician, auto mechanic, auto salesman, real estate broker and community newspaper editor who was also a Los Angeles City Council member between 1933 and 1939.-Biography:Byron B...
11,260 (elected) / Charles W. Dempster 8,585
6th
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C...
12.244 (elected) / Lottie E. Barkow (EPIC) 6,955
7th
Will H. Kindig
Will H. Kindig
William Harvey Kindig , known as Will H. Kindig or W.H. 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.-Biography:Kindig moved to California...
8.077 (elected) / Dwight Baker 7,597
8th
Evan Lewis 10,395 (elected) / Arthur P. Moran 8,964
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 11,114 (elected) / George W.C. Baker 9,695
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
G. Vernon Bennett
Guy Vernon Bennett , also known as G. Vernon Bennett, was superintendent of schools in Pomona, California; a professor of education at the University of Southern California, and a Los Angeles city councilman from the 10th District from 1935 to 1951...
8,794 (elected) / E. Snapper Ingram
E. Snapper Ingram
Ebenezer Snapper Ingram was a Los Angeles City Councilmember representing the 10th District from 1927 until 1935. He went by E. Snapper Ingram.-Biography:...
8,064
11th
R.S. MacAlister 9,499 (elected) / Howard B. Rose 7,515
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward Lee Thrasher , who went by Edward L. Thrasher, was a builder, contractor and decorator who served on the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1931 and 1942.-Biography:...
12,921 (elected) / Royal M. Davis 7,439
15th
Franklin P. Buyer 9,051 / Edwin G. Gettins 8,392
Citywide 1937-41
MayorFrank L. Shaw
Frank L. Shaw
Frank L. 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...
104,481 (nominated) / Ford 77,703 (nominated) / McDonough 40,526 / Wirsching 15,764 / Nordskog 4,833 / Shoemaker 2,142
Controller
Hoye 134,713 (elected) / Collins 41,367 / Cox 22,500
City Attorney
Chesebro (elected) 116,647 / Taplin 76,912 / Cryer 19,205 / Hubbard 8,501 / Moidel 4,885
City Council 1937-39
1stJim Wilson
Jim Wilson (Los Angeles)
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....
8,948 (elected) / Robinson 2,769 / Quesinberry 2,489
2nd
Norris J. Nelson 4,603 (nominated) / James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde was a metallurgist who was noted for inventing a process that revolutionized the American mining industry. He was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1931 to 1939.-Biography:...
4,227 (nominated) / Quinn 1,354 / Alberti 1,353 / Quigley 660
3rd
Stephen W. Cunningham
Stephen W. Cunningham
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.-Biography:Stephen W...
8,043 (elected) / Burke 2,350
4th
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns was a Los Angeles school board member between 1923 and 1929 and Los Angeles City Council member between 1929 and 1945. He previously was on the school board in Hutchinson, Kansas. At his death in 1955, he was described as Los Angeles's "elder statesman."Robert L...
8,333 (elected)
5th
Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard was an electrician, auto mechanic, auto salesman, real estate broker and community newspaper editor who was also a Los Angeles City Council member between 1933 and 1939.-Biography:Byron B...
9,683 (elected) / Roy Donley
Roy Donley
Roy L. Donley was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from the Fifth District in 1931 and 1932. He was also deputy United States Internal Revenue collector....
3,591 / Merrill 1,971
6th
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C...
10,284 (elected) / Crahan 1,287 / Deegan 1,569
7th
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. 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...
8,010 (elected) / Will H. Kindig
Will H. Kindig
William Harvey Kindig , known as Will H. Kindig or W.H. 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.-Biography:Kindig moved to California...
6,705
8th
Evan Lewis 7,913 (elected) / Massion 2,646 / Crosswhite 1,175 / Rees 1,004 / Smith 606 / Quinn 184
9th
Howard E. Dorsey
Howard E. Dorsey
Howard E. Dorsey was a hydraulic engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1937. He was the only City Council member since at least 1925 to die in office from accidental death — in his case, a traffic mishap — and the member to have served the fewest number of days...
4,017 (nominated) / Jack Y. Berman 2,450 (nominated) / Armstrong 2,295 / Bowman 2,110 / Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...
1,989 / Peterson 1,952 / Farrow 1,081 / Pritchard 730 / Briggs 661 / Wainess 592 / Sheinart 241 / Koehler 131
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
G. Vernon Bennett
Guy Vernon Bennett , also known as G. Vernon Bennett, was superintendent of schools in Pomona, California; a professor of education at the University of Southern California, and a Los Angeles city councilman from the 10th District from 1935 to 1951...
8,065 (elected) / McLain 5,306
11th
R.S. MacAlister 7,849 (elected) / Voigt 3,742 / J.C. Barthel
J.C. Barthel
Julius C. Barthel, who went by J.C. Barthel, was an engineer and politician who was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1929 to 1931.-Biography:...
1,319
12th
John W. Baumgartner
John W. Baumgartner
John Walter Baumgartner was a civil engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1933 to 1945.-Biography:...
9,679 (elected)
13th
Darwin William Tate
Darwin William Tate
Darwin William Tate , who went by Darwin W. Tate, was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1933 and 1939 and chief of the California Division of State Beaches and Parks from 1939 to 1942.-Biography:...
10,085 (elected) / Johnson 4,812
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward Lee Thrasher , who went by Edward L. Thrasher, was a builder, contractor and decorator who served on the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1931 and 1942.-Biography:...
10,406 (elected) / Rose 7,113
15th
Franklin P. Buyer 7,511 (elected) / Draper 4,337 / Nixon 1,460 / Gallagher 901 / Fisher 692
Citywide 1937-41
MayorFrank L. Shaw
Frank L. Shaw
Frank L. 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...
169,848 (elected) / John Anson Ford
John Anson Ford
John Anson Ford was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.Ford was born September 29, 1883, in Waukegan, Illinois. He attended Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, taught history and economics, then moved to Chicago, where he worked on the Chicago Tribune. He was on the editorial...
144,079
City Counci 1937-39l
2ndJames M. Hyde
James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde was a metallurgist who was noted for inventing a process that revolutionized the American mining industry. He was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1931 to 1939.-Biography:...
9,161 (elected) / Norris J. Nelson 8,981
9th
Howard E. Dorsey
Howard E. Dorsey
Howard E. Dorsey was a hydraulic engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1937. He was the only City Council member since at least 1925 to die in office from accidental death — in his case, a traffic mishap — and the member to have served the fewest number of days...
12,636 / Jack Y. Berman 10,651
Citywide 1938–40
Mayor In favor of the recall of Frank L. ShawFrank L. Shaw
Frank L. 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...
236,525 (approved) / Opposed 129,245
For mayor Fletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron was the 35th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from September 26, 1938 until June 30, 1953. Until Thomas Bradley passed his length of service during the 1980s, Bowron held the distinction of having the longest tenure in that position in city history.Bowron was born in Poway,...
233,427 (elected) / Frank L. Shaw
Frank L. Shaw
Frank L. 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...
122,692 / Alonzo Jehiel Riggs 4,050 / Albert F. Osterloh 2,706
City Council 1938–39
6th In favor of the recall of Earl C. GayEarl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C...
10,009 / Opposed 14,336 (defeated)
City Council 1939–41
1stJim Wilson
Jim Wilson (Los Angeles)
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....
8,446 (nominated) / Delamere Francis McCloskey
Delamere Francis McCloskey
Delamere Francis McCloskey was a Canadian-born San Fernando Valley attorney who represented the 1st District on the Los Angeles City Council from 1941 to 1945.-Biography:...
4,249 (nominated / Everett G. Burkhalter
Everett G. Burkhalter
Everett Glen Burkhalter , who went by Everett G. Burkhalter, was a film studio electrician who turned to politics in 1941 and became a member of the California State Assembly, the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress in the middle part of the 20th century.-Biography:Burkhalter was born in...
3,904 / C. Oscar Leach 1,473
2nd
Norris J. Nelson
Norris J. Nelson
Norris J. Nelson was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1939 to 1943, after which he served in Europe with the U.S. Army.-Biography:...
9,632 (elected) / James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde
James M. Hyde was a metallurgist who was noted for inventing a process that revolutionized the American mining industry. He was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1931 to 1939.-Biography:...
4,287
3rd
Stephen W. Cunningham
Stephen W. Cunningham
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.-Biography:Stephen W...
6,794 (elected)
4th
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns was a Los Angeles school board member between 1923 and 1929 and Los Angeles City Council member between 1929 and 1945. He previously was on the school board in Hutchinson, Kansas. At his death in 1955, he was described as Los Angeles's "elder statesman."Robert L...
7,356 (elected) / Harry H. Ferrell 2,707
5th
Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard was an electrician, auto mechanic, auto salesman, real estate broker and community newspaper editor who was also a Los Angeles City Council member between 1933 and 1939.-Biography:Byron B...
6,815 (nominated) / Arthur E. Briggs
Arthur E. Briggs
Dr. Arthur Elbert Briggs was a teacher and law school dean who was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member from 1939 to 1941 and the leader of the Ethical Society of Los Angeles in 1953.-Biography:...
5,715 (nominated) / Ralph S. Armour 1,799 / Ed J. Ryman 332 / Fred Chapman 282
6th
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C...
7,132 (nominated) / Chelene V. Eckerson 4,749 (nominated) / Doyle D. McClurg 1,078 / Tom Howard 931 / Dan C. Egan 698 / Orvin A. Koch 577 / Harry E. Defty 493
7th
Leon H. Washington Jr. 5,011 (nominated) / Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl Christian Rasmussen was a Lutheran minister who was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1939 and 1947.-Biography:...
3,402 (nominated) / Howard W. Davis
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. 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...
3,049 / M.T. Faulkes 1,756 / Ray West 1,242 / Edward J. Nagle 974 / Scott Weller 604 / John R. Edwards 507 / Everett K. Miller 291 / Jay W. Swander 161
8th
Evan Lewis 7,864 (elected) / Andrew C. Pereboom 2,168 / Robert Hyde 1,630 / Gene Flint 1,278
9th (unexpired term of Howard E. Dorsey
Howard E. Dorsey
Howard E. Dorsey was a hydraulic engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1937. He was the only City Council member since at least 1925 to die in office from accidental death — in his case, a traffic mishap — and the member to have served the fewest number of days...
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Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...
6,548 (nominated) / Parley Parker Christensen 5,404 (nominated) / George W.C. Baker 2,007 / Waldo D. Rios 1,797
9th (full term)
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...
5,023 (nominated) / Parley Parker Christensen 3,886 (nominated) / Jack Y. Berman 3,088 / Harry J. Raymond 2,130 / John B. Pelletier 2,074 / George W.C. Baker 1,511 / Waldo D. Rios 1,200
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
G. Vernon Bennett
Guy Vernon Bennett , also known as G. Vernon Bennett, was superintendent of schools in Pomona, California; a professor of education at the University of Southern California, and a Los Angeles city councilman from the 10th District from 1935 to 1951...
9,526 (elected) / Willard E. Badham 2,192 / Solly F. Smith 1,620 / Allan M. Rose 804
11th
Robert S. MacAlister
Robert S. MacAlister
Not to be confused with James G. McAllister, Los Angeles City Council member 1928–33Robert Stuart MacAlister , who went by Robert S. MacAlister, was an oil-well-supplies salesman and a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1934 and 1939.-Biography:MacAlister was born on May...
5,489 (nominated) / Harold Harby
Harold Harby
Not to be confused with Harold A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council member 1945–66.Harold Harby was elected to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1939, but he had to leave office in 1942 when he was convicted of using a city car for a trip out of the state. He was reelected in 1943 and...
4,593 (nominated) / Edgar C. Steeves 2,618 / Ted E. Felt 688 / J.C. Barthel
J.C. Barthel
Julius C. Barthel, who went by J.C. Barthel, was an engineer and politician who was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1929 to 1931.-Biography:...
402
12th
John W. Baumgartner
John W. Baumgartner
John Walter Baumgartner was a civil engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1933 to 1945.-Biography:...
6,262 (nominated) / Samuel W. Yorty 4,729 (nominated) / Ralph H. Gray 4,684
13th
Frank Merrill 3,292 (nominated) / Roy Hampton
Roy Hampton
Roy Hampton was an attorney, ex-Marine and former journalist who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1939 to 1943...
3,215 (nominated) / Grover C. Johnson 3,000 / Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson
Carl Ingold Jacobson was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, from 1925 to 1933. He was tried on a morals charge, and then it was later shown that he was the victim of a frame-up by local police authorities.-Biography:...
2,483 / David P. Vienna 2,122 / Mildred Gilmore 1,050 / H. Raymond Campbell 614 / Harry W. Francis 439
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward Lee Thrasher , who went by Edward L. Thrasher, was a builder, contractor and decorator who served on the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1931 and 1942.-Biography:...
8,650 (elected) / George Knox Roth 5,633 / Charles A. Self 1,042 / John J. Reltano 825 / Harry Clay Swift 646 / James N. Rankin 442
15th
Franklin P. Buyer 4,726 (nominated) / Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the Harbor and South Los Angeles districts from 1939 to 1943.-Biography:...
3,074 (nominated) / Fred Reaves 2,567 / Ben Wood 998 / Clarence E. Harrison 758 / Leonard R. Davison 684 / W.A. Gallagher 546 / Benjamin M. Bendat 506 / William H. Wilson 498 / Edward Kosin 428 / J.C. Holland 289
City Council 1939–41
1stJim Wilson
Jim Wilson (Los Angeles)
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....
11,786 (elected) / Delamere F. McCloskey 11,574
5th
Arthur E. Briggs
Arthur E. Briggs
Dr. Arthur Elbert Briggs was a teacher and law school dean who was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member from 1939 to 1941 and the leader of the Ethical Society of Los Angeles in 1953.-Biography:...
11,276 (elected) / Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard
Byron B. Brainard was an electrician, auto mechanic, auto salesman, real estate broker and community newspaper editor who was also a Los Angeles City Council member between 1933 and 1939.-Biography:Byron B...
9,281
6th
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C...
11,867 (elected) / Chelene V. Eckerson 11,386
7th
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl Christian Rasmussen was a Lutheran minister who was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1939 and 1947.-Biography:...
13,928 (elected) / Leon H. Washington Jr. 9,575
9th (unexpired term of Howard E. Dorsey
Howard E. Dorsey
Howard E. Dorsey was a hydraulic engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1937. He was the only City Council member since at least 1925 to die in office from accidental death — in his case, a traffic mishap — and the member to have served the fewest number of days...
)
Parley P. Christensen
Parley P. Christensen
Parley Parker Christensen was an American politician and nominee of the Farmer-Labor Party for President of the United States in 1920. He was member of the Utah House of Representatives and of the Los Angeles, California, City Council...
11,450 (elected) / Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...
10,471
9th (full term)
Parley P. Christensen
Parley P. Christensen
Parley Parker Christensen was an American politician and nominee of the Farmer-Labor Party for President of the United States in 1920. He was member of the Utah House of Representatives and of the Los Angeles, California, City Council...
12,168 (elected) / Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred J. Sanborn
Winfred Joseph Sanborn. known as Winfred J. Sanborn, was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system. Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until...
10,783
11th
Harold Harby
Harold Harby
Not to be confused with Harold A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council member 1945–66.Harold Harby was elected to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1939, but he had to leave office in 1942 when he was convicted of using a city car for a trip out of the state. He was reelected in 1943 and...
11,151 (elected) / Robert S. MacAlister
Robert S. MacAlister
Not to be confused with James G. McAllister, Los Angeles City Council member 1928–33Robert Stuart MacAlister , who went by Robert S. MacAlister, was an oil-well-supplies salesman and a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1934 and 1939.-Biography:MacAlister was born on May...
8,651
12th
John W. Baumgartner
John W. Baumgartner
John Walter Baumgartner was a civil engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1933 to 1945.-Biography:...
10,508 (elected) / Samuel W. Yorty 9,766 / R.H. Gray 393
13th
Roy Hampton
Roy Hampton
Roy Hampton was an attorney, ex-Marine and former journalist who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1939 to 1943...
11,830 (elected) / Frank Merrill 9,243
15th
Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the Harbor and South Los Angeles districts from 1939 to 1943.-Biography:...
11,973 (elected) / Franklin P. Buyer 8,461
Citywide 1941–45
MayorFletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron was the 35th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from September 26, 1938 until June 30, 1953. Until Thomas Bradley passed his length of service during the 1980s, Bowron held the distinction of having the longest tenure in that position in city history.Bowron was born in Poway,...
146,006 (nominated) / Stephen W. Cunningham
Stephen W. Cunningham
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.-Biography:Stephen W...
(nominated) 57,009 / Kramer 30,067 / Porter 28,605 / Shaw 24,101 / Husband 9,198 / Rossitto 1,964 / Thayer 1,433
City attorney
Chesebro 199,922 (elected) / Allen 51,676 / Maine 11,628
Controller
Hoye 138,992 (elected) / Cassidy 73,053 / Abbott 41,061
City Council 1941–43
1stJim Wilson
Jim Wilson (Los Angeles)
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....
9,264 (nominated) / Delamere F. McCloskey (nominated) 5,156 / Charles E. Cook Jr. 4,969 / Kingdon H. Hicks 828 / Charles L. Davies 766 / Frank Di Cristina 628
2nd
Norris J. Nelson
Norris J. Nelson
Norris J. Nelson was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1939 to 1943, after which he served in Europe with the U.S. Army.-Biography:...
10,119 (elected) / Taylor 3,667
3rd
Paul V. Parker 6,136 (nominated) / J. Win Austin
J. Win Austin
J. Win Austin was a retired businessman who became a Los Angeles, California, City Council member from 1941 to 1953. He was earlier on the Police and Health commissions.-Biography:...
5,360 (nominated) / Burke 2,329 / Litzenberg 681 / Offutt 603
4th
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns was a Los Angeles school board member between 1923 and 1929 and Los Angeles City Council member between 1929 and 1945. He previously was on the school board in Hutchinson, Kansas. At his death in 1955, he was described as Los Angeles's "elder statesman."Robert L...
12,061 (elected) / Melham 2,282
5th
Arthur E. Briggs
Arthur E. Briggs
Dr. Arthur Elbert Briggs was a teacher and law school dean who was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member from 1939 to 1941 and the leader of the Ethical Society of Los Angeles in 1953.-Biography:...
7,313 (nominated) / Ira J. McDonald
Ira J. McDonald
Ira J. McDonald was a Downey, California, attorney and City Council member in Los Angeles, California, between 1941 and 1945.-Biography:...
6,242 (nominated) / Raymond 3,049 / Merrill 1,741 / Witman 610
6th
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C...
11,238 (elected) / Eckerson 8,186
7th
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl Christian Rasmussen was a Lutheran minister who was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1939 and 1947.-Biography:...
8,123 (nominated) / Howard W. Davis
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. 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...
5,928 (nominated) / Ferry 1,238 / Motter 1,003
8th
Charles A. Allen 6,417 (nominated) / Massion 6,200 (nominated) / Rees 2,260 / Crosswhite 1,317
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 8,718 (nominated) / Waxman 4,817 (nominated) / Mathews 2,672 / Fife 1,488
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
G. Vernon Bennett
Guy Vernon Bennett , also known as G. Vernon Bennett, was superintendent of schools in Pomona, California; a professor of education at the University of Southern California, and a Los Angeles city councilman from the 10th District from 1935 to 1951...
8,287 (elected) / Smith 3,806 / Van Dame 1,071
11th
Harold Harby
Harold Harby
Not to be confused with Harold A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council member 1945–66.Harold Harby was elected to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1939, but he had to leave office in 1942 when he was convicted of using a city car for a trip out of the state. He was reelected in 1943 and...
8,722 (elected) / Shimp 2,332 / Baldwin 1,854 / Appleton 1,635
12th
John W. Baumgartner
John W. Baumgartner
John Walter Baumgartner was a civil engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1933 to 1945.-Biography:...
9,990 (elected) / Gray 4,926 / Honeycombe 1,179 / Kushner 1,028
13th
Roy Hampton
Roy Hampton
Roy Hampton was an attorney, ex-Marine and former journalist who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1939 to 1943...
11,182 (elected) / Borough 5,428 / Jacobson 3,176
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward Lee Thrasher , who went by Edward L. Thrasher, was a builder, contractor and decorator who served on the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1931 and 1942.-Biography:...
9,987 (nominated) / Roth 6,977 (nominated) / Hamilton 1,789 / Higgins 1,682
15th
Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the Harbor and South Los Angeles districts from 1939 to 1943.-Biography:...
7,637 (nominated) / Franklin P. Buyer 7,096 (nominated) / Jett 1,298 / MacDonald 1,574
1941-45 citywide
MayorFletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron was the 35th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from September 26, 1938 until June 30, 1953. Until Thomas Bradley passed his length of service during the 1980s, Bowron held the distinction of having the longest tenure in that position in city history.Bowron was born in Poway,...
181,582 (elected) / Stephen W. Cunningham
Stephen W. Cunningham
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.-Biography:Stephen W...
149,195
1941–43 City Council
1stDelamere Francis McCloskey
Delamere Francis McCloskey
Delamere Francis McCloskey was a Canadian-born San Fernando Valley attorney who represented the 1st District on the Los Angeles City Council from 1941 to 1945.-Biography:...
12,826 (elected) / Jim Wilson
Jim Wilson (Los Angeles)
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....
12,148
3rd
J. Win Austin
J. Win Austin
J. Win Austin was a retired businessman who became a Los Angeles, California, City Council member from 1941 to 1953. He was earlier on the Police and Health commissions.-Biography:...
10,446 (elected) / Paul V. Parker 8,649
5th
Ira J. McDonald
Ira J. McDonald
Ira J. McDonald was a Downey, California, attorney and City Council member in Los Angeles, California, between 1941 and 1945.-Biography:...
12,420 (elected) / Arthur E. Briggs
Arthur E. Briggs
Dr. Arthur Elbert Briggs was a teacher and law school dean who was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member from 1939 to 1941 and the leader of the Ethical Society of Los Angeles in 1953.-Biography:...
9,492
7th
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl Christian Rasmussen was a Lutheran minister who was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1939 and 1947.-Biography:...
11,726 (elected) / Howard W. Davis
Howard W. Davis
Howard W. 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...
8,340
8th
Charles A. Allen 12,031 (elected) / Massion 8,408
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 12,838 (elected) / Waxman 7,644
14th
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward Lee Thrasher , who went by Edward L. Thrasher, was a builder, contractor and decorator who served on the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1931 and 1942.-Biography:...
12,623 (elected) / Roth 11,386
15th
Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the Harbor and South Los Angeles districts from 1939 to 1943.-Biography:...
11,877 (elected) / Franklin P. Buyer 7,917
1943–45 City Council
1stDelamere Francis McCloskey
Delamere Francis McCloskey
Delamere Francis McCloskey was a Canadian-born San Fernando Valley attorney who represented the 1st District on the Los Angeles City Council from 1941 to 1945.-Biography:...
6,524 (elected) / Scherer 2,948 / Gettys 1,532 / Dentzel 725 / West 622 / Delph 483
2nd
Lloyd G. Davies
Lloyd G. Davies
Lloyd G. Davies was a Hollywood advertising and public relations man and sometime actor who was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1943 to 1951.-Biography:...
6,243 (elected) / Gordon 1,580 / Wright 928 / Cuthbertson 885 / Nelson 639 / Taylor 522
3rd
J. Win Austin
J. Win Austin
J. Win Austin was a retired businessman who became a Los Angeles, California, City Council member from 1941 to 1953. He was earlier on the Police and Health commissions.-Biography:...
7,587 (elected) / Parker 575
4th
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns
Robert L. Burns was a Los Angeles school board member between 1923 and 1929 and Los Angeles City Council member between 1929 and 1945. He previously was on the school board in Hutchinson, Kansas. At his death in 1955, he was described as Los Angeles's "elder statesman."Robert L...
10,141 (elected) / Gunn 928
5th
Ira J. McDonald
Ira J. McDonald
Ira J. McDonald was a Downey, California, attorney and City Council member in Los Angeles, California, between 1941 and 1945.-Biography:...
6,771 (elected) / MacDonough 3,342 / Arthur E. Briggs
Arthur E. Briggs
Dr. Arthur Elbert Briggs was a teacher and law school dean who was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member from 1939 to 1941 and the leader of the Ethical Society of Los Angeles in 1953.-Biography:...
2,334
6th
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C...
5,783 (nominated) / L.E. Timberlake 4,136 (nominated) / McGahan 2,287 / McFarland 652
7th
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl Christian Rasmussen was a Lutheran minister who was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1939 and 1947.-Biography:...
7,226 (elected) / Collins 2,941
8th
Charles A. Allen 6,825 (elected)
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 5,900 (nominated) / Allen 3,876 (nominated) / Campbell 1,727 / Forbes 1,113
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
G. Vernon Bennett
Guy Vernon Bennett , also known as G. Vernon Bennett, was superintendent of schools in Pomona, California; a professor of education at the University of Southern California, and a Los Angeles city councilman from the 10th District from 1935 to 1951...
5,510 (elected) / Kilpatrick 3,718 / Barnard 1,573
11th unexpired term
Dave Stannard
Dave Stannard
David Samuel Benjamin Stannard , who went by Dave Stannard, was a journalist and advertising representative named to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1942 to replace Harold Harby, who had been stripped of his seat because he used a city car to go on vacation in Montana.-Biography:David...
5,098 (elected) / Harold Harby
Harold Harby
Not to be confused with Harold A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council member 1945–66.Harold Harby was elected to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1939, but he had to leave office in 1942 when he was convicted of using a city car for a trip out of the state. He was reelected in 1943 and...
4,420
11th full term
Harold Harby
Harold Harby
Not to be confused with Harold A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council member 1945–66.Harold Harby was elected to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1939, but he had to leave office in 1942 when he was convicted of using a city car for a trip out of the state. He was reelected in 1943 and...
4,020 (nominated) / Dave Stannard
Dave Stannard
David Samuel Benjamin Stannard , who went by Dave Stannard, was a journalist and advertising representative named to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1942 to replace Harold Harby, who had been stripped of his seat because he used a city car to go on vacation in Montana.-Biography:David...
3,998 (nominated) / Blake 2,135 / Lindstrom 465
12th
John W. Baumgartner
John W. Baumgartner
John Walter Baumgartner was a civil engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1933 to 1945.-Biography:...
8,068 (elected) / Tierney 1,516 / Gill 1,323 / Kushner 636 / Gore 523
13th
Roy Hampton
Roy Hampton
Roy Hampton was an attorney, ex-Marine and former journalist who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1939 to 1943...
6,363 (nominated) / Ned R. Healy
Ned R. Healy
Not to be confused with Don R. Healy, Los Angeles labor leader of the 1940s and 1950s.Ned Romeyn Healy , who went by Ned R. Healy, was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1943 and 1944 and a member of Congress from 1945 to 1947.-Biography:Healy was born August 9, 1905, in...
3,328 / Kay Cunningham 3,310 / Meade McClanahan
Meade McClanahan
Meade McClanahan was an industrial engineer and businessman who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1945 but was ousted by voters in 1946 based upon his support for controversial preacher and political organizer Gerald L.K...
1,266
14th
John C. Holland
John C. Holland
John C. Holland was one of the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council members, for 24 years from 1943 to 1967, and was known for his losing fight against bringing the Los Angeles Dodgers to Chavez Ravine and for his reputation as a watchdog over the city treasury.-Biography:Holland was born...
8,916 (elected) / Edward L. Thrasher
Edward L. Thrasher
Edward Lee Thrasher , who went by Edward L. Thrasher, was a builder, contractor and decorator who served on the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1931 and 1942.-Biography:...
5,758 / Shield 800
15th
George H. Moore
George H. Moore
George H. Moore , an attorney and a judge who was active in civic affairs of the Los Angeles Harbor region, was district attorney of San Benito County and a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1943 to 1951.-Biography:...
6,383 (elected) / Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the Harbor and South Los Angeles districts from 1939 to 1943.-Biography:...
4,664
1943–45 City Council
6thEarl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C...
8,841 (elected) / L.E. Timberlake 8,404
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 7,309? (elected) / Allen 7,026
11th
Harold Harby
Harold Harby
Not to be confused with Harold A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council member 1945–66.Harold Harby was elected to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1939, but he had to leave office in 1942 when he was convicted of using a city car for a trip out of the state. He was reelected in 1943 and...
6,392 (elected) / Dave Stannard
Dave Stannard
David Samuel Benjamin Stannard , who went by Dave Stannard, was a journalist and advertising representative named to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1942 to replace Harold Harby, who had been stripped of his seat because he used a city car to go on vacation in Montana.-Biography:David...
5,988
13th
Ned R. Healy
Ned R. Healy
Not to be confused with Don R. Healy, Los Angeles labor leader of the 1940s and 1950s.Ned Romeyn Healy , who went by Ned R. Healy, was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1943 and 1944 and a member of Congress from 1945 to 1947.-Biography:Healy was born August 9, 1905, in...
9,177 (elected) / Roy Hampton
Roy Hampton
Roy Hampton was an attorney, ex-Marine and former journalist who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1939 to 1943...
7,613
1945–49 Citywide
MayorFletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron was the 35th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from September 26, 1938 until June 30, 1953. Until Thomas Bradley passed his length of service during the 1980s, Bowron held the distinction of having the longest tenure in that position in city history.Bowron was born in Poway,...
146,707 (elected) / Clifford Clinton
Clifford Clinton
Clifford E. Clinton was a Californian restaurateur who founded Meals for Millions, one of two parent organizations of Freedom from Hunger, in 1946....
51,226 / Roger Jessup 34,056 / Ira J. McDonald 12,721 / Samuel W. Yorty 10,407 / Entenza 10,319 / Jones 2,341 / Gunn 1,274 / Dyster 790 / Hill 647 / Weiss 581 / Zeman 512 / Martin 368 / Mosteller 233
City attorney
Chesebro 197,957 (elected) / Friday 30,902
1945–47 City Council
1stDelamere Francis McCloskey
Delamere Francis McCloskey
Delamere Francis McCloskey was a Canadian-born San Fernando Valley attorney who represented the 1st District on the Los Angeles City Council from 1941 to 1945.-Biography:...
6,570 (nominated) / Leland S. Warburton
Leland S. Warburton
Leland S. Warburton, also known as Lee Warburton, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1953.Leland S. Warburton, also known as Lee Warburton, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1953....
6,222 (nominated) / Randall 1,391 / Ellis 1,088
2nd
Lloyd G. Davies
Lloyd G. Davies
Lloyd G. Davies was a Hollywood advertising and public relations man and sometime actor who was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1943 to 1951.-Biography:...
10,153 (elected) / Fulton 2,867 / Crowe 1,444 / Wright 1,332 / LaGuardia 585
3rd
Figures missing.
4th
Harold A. Henry
Harold A. Henry
Not to be confused with Harold Harby, Los Angeles City Council member 1943–57.Harold A. Henry was a community newspaper publisher who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1945 and was its president for four terms from 1947 to 1962....
8,622 (nominated) / Groman 3,398 (nominated) / E. Snapper Ingram
E. Snapper Ingram
Ebenezer Snapper Ingram was a Los Angeles City Councilmember representing the 10th District from 1927 until 1935. He went by E. Snapper Ingram.-Biography:...
2,238 / Hensley 1,077 / Hayden 648 / Syracuse 579 / Hansen 568 / Melham 345
5th
George P. Cronk
George P. Cronk
Not to be confused with George H. Moore, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–1951.George Parkman Cronk , who went by George P. Cronk, was an insurance man who was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1952.-Biography:...
4,972 (nominated) / Kennedy 4,555 (nominated) / Olson 2,909 / Murchison 1,032 / Northrup 910? / Brooks 766 / Smith 551 / Wood 419
6th
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C...
7,866 (nominated) / L.E. Timberlake 6,473 (nominated) / Williams 2,249 / Read 777
7th
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl Christian Rasmussen was a Lutheran minister who was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1939 and 1947.-Biography:...
9,319 (nominated) / Charlotta A. Bass 6,546 (nominated) / Hawkins 1,369 / Ferry 1,001 / Branch 693
8th
Charles A. Allen 8,852 (elected) / Gentry 4,009 / Hillton 741 / Rose 685
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 7,378 (nominated) / Allen 5,122 / Quevedo 2,227 / Campbell 2,010 / Rose 1,038
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
G. Vernon Bennett
Guy Vernon Bennett , also known as G. Vernon Bennett, was superintendent of schools in Pomona, California; a professor of education at the University of Southern California, and a Los Angeles city councilman from the 10th District from 1935 to 1951...
12,207 (elected) / Biber 2,327
11th
Harold Harby
Harold Harby
Not to be confused with Harold A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council member 1945–66.Harold Harby was elected to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1939, but he had to leave office in 1942 when he was convicted of using a city car for a trip out of the state. He was reelected in 1943 and...
9,633 (elected) / Dave Stannard
Dave Stannard
David Samuel Benjamin Stannard , who went by Dave Stannard, was a journalist and advertising representative named to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1942 to replace Harold Harby, who had been stripped of his seat because he used a city car to go on vacation in Montana.-Biography:David...
2,263 / MacGregor 1,685
12th
Ed J. Davenport 4,301 (nominated) / Newton 3,642 (nominated) / Brown 2,034 / Merrill 1,980 / Campbell 1,879 / McFarland 1,171 / Tierney 906 / Kushner 874 / Pettis 216
13th full term
Meade McClanahan
Meade McClanahan
Meade McClanahan was an industrial engineer and businessman who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1945 but was ousted by voters in 1946 based upon his support for controversial preacher and political organizer Gerald L.K...
9,098 (elected) / Joseph W. Aldlin 7,328 / Brankey 1,642
13th unexpired term
Meade McClanahan
Meade McClanahan
Meade McClanahan was an industrial engineer and businessman who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1945 but was ousted by voters in 1946 based upon his support for controversial preacher and political organizer Gerald L.K...
9,505 (elected) / Joseph W. Aldlin 7,277
14th
John C. Holland
John C. Holland
John C. Holland was one of the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council members, for 24 years from 1943 to 1967, and was known for his losing fight against bringing the Los Angeles Dodgers to Chavez Ravine and for his reputation as a watchdog over the city treasury.-Biography:Holland was born...
12,846 (elected) / Laster 5,817
15th
George H. Moore
George H. Moore
George H. Moore , an attorney and a judge who was active in civic affairs of the Los Angeles Harbor region, was district attorney of San Benito County and a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1943 to 1951.-Biography:...
8,168 (elected) / Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the Harbor and South Los Angeles districts from 1939 to 1943.-Biography:...
4,305
1945–47 City Council
Incomplete1st
Leland S. Warburton
Leland S. Warburton
Leland S. Warburton, also known as Lee Warburton, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1953.Leland S. Warburton, also known as Lee Warburton, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1953....
7,271 (elected) / Delamere Francis McCloskey
Delamere Francis McCloskey
Delamere Francis McCloskey was a Canadian-born San Fernando Valley attorney who represented the 1st District on the Los Angeles City Council from 1941 to 1945.-Biography:...
4,598
4th
Harold A. Henry
Harold A. Henry
Not to be confused with Harold Harby, Los Angeles City Council member 1943–57.Harold A. Henry was a community newspaper publisher who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1945 and was its president for four terms from 1947 to 1962....
11,112 (elected) / Groman 3,848
5th
George P. Cronk
George P. Cronk
Not to be confused with George H. Moore, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–1951.George Parkman Cronk , who went by George P. Cronk, was an insurance man who was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1952.-Biography:...
, 9,347 (elected) / Kennedy 6,195
6th
L.E. Timberlake 9,295 (elected) / Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C...
9,185
7th
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl Christian Rasmussen was a Lutheran minister who was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1939 and 1947.-Biography:...
14,593 (elected) / Charlotta A. Bass 7,748
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 8,848 (elected) / Allen 8 ,261
12th
Ed J. Davenport 7,809 (elected) / Newton 7,584
1946–47 City Council
13th recall Meade McClanahanYes 12,394 approved / No 8,913
13th
John R. Roden
John R. Roden
John R. Roden was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1946 to succeed Meade McClanahan, who was recalled from office. Roden served until mid-1947 and was defeated for reelection.-Biography:...
11,394 (elected) / Hubert Wallis 1,028 / John P. McGinley 929
1947–49 City Council
1stLeland S. Warburton
Leland S. Warburton
Leland S. Warburton, also known as Lee Warburton, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1953.Leland S. Warburton, also known as Lee Warburton, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1953....
16,703 (elected) / LaRue 2,681
2nd
Lloyd G. Davies
Lloyd G. Davies
Lloyd G. Davies was a Hollywood advertising and public relations man and sometime actor who was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1943 to 1951.-Biography:...
14,462 (elected) / McKnight 4,063 / Brubaker 2,580 / Lusk 982 / Joel 415
3rd
J. Win Austin
J. Win Austin
J. Win Austin was a retired businessman who became a Los Angeles, California, City Council member from 1941 to 1953. He was earlier on the Police and Health commissions.-Biography:...
14,613 (elected) / McMillan 5,078
4th
Harold A. Henry
Harold A. Henry
Not to be confused with Harold Harby, Los Angeles City Council member 1943–57.Harold A. Henry was a community newspaper publisher who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1945 and was its president for four terms from 1947 to 1962....
12,959 (elected) / Doran 5,107 / Butler 1,153 / Chiverton 611
5th
George P. Cronk
George P. Cronk
Not to be confused with George H. Moore, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–1951.George Parkman Cronk , who went by George P. Cronk, was an insurance man who was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1952.-Biography:...
16, 223 (elected) / Gans 2,371
6th
L.E. Timberlake 10,878 (elected) / Brown 3,559 / Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay
Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C. Gay was a registered pharmacist who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1933 and 1945.-Biography:Earl C...
3,223 / Corrigan 1,525 / Williams 461 / Beets 319
7th
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl Christian Rasmussen was a Lutheran minister who was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1939 and 1947.-Biography:...
7,278 (nominated) / Don A. Allen
Don A. Allen
Not to be confused with Charles A. Allen, Los Angeles City Council member, 1941–47.Don A. Allen, also known as Don A. Allen, Sr., was a member of the California State Assembly in the 1940s and 1950s and of the Los Angeles City Council between 1947 and 1956.-Biography:Allen was born on May 13, 1900...
5,691 (nominated) / Caston 5,502 / Davis 2,643 / Collins 1,104 / Townsend 908 / Draper 286 / Alvord 200
8th
Charles A. Allen 8,841 (nominated) / Kenneth Hahn
Kenneth Hahn
Kenneth "Kenny" Hahn was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years, from 1952 to 1992. Hahn was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1947 to 1952. He was an ardent supporter of civil rights throughout the 1960s, and met Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1961.-Biography:Hahn...
5,702 (nominated) / Caukins 1,761 / Monjar 1,338
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 8,933 (nominated) / Sheehan 3,778 (nominated) / Edward R. Roybal 3,338 / Jaffe 3,098 / Shalmo 1,225
10th
G. Vernon Bennett
G. Vernon Bennett
Guy Vernon Bennett , also known as G. Vernon Bennett, was superintendent of schools in Pomona, California; a professor of education at the University of Southern California, and a Los Angeles city councilman from the 10th District from 1935 to 1951...
12,464 (elected) / Downs 2,861 / Bratton 1,876
11th
Harold Harby
Harold Harby
Not to be confused with Harold A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council member 1945–66.Harold Harby was elected to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1939, but he had to leave office in 1942 when he was convicted of using a city car for a trip out of the state. He was reelected in 1943 and...
13,955 (elected) / Kelleher 3,568
12th
Ed J. Davenport 13,555 (elected) / Behrend 4,436 / Maxwell 1,225 / Gibbons 972
13th
Ernest E. Debs
Ernest E. Debs
Ernest Eugene Debs , who went by Ernest E. Debs, was a California State Assembly member from 1942 to 1947, a Los Angeles city councilman from 1947 to 1958 and a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1958 to 1974....
10,216 (nominated) / John R. Roden
John R. Roden
John R. Roden was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1946 to succeed Meade McClanahan, who was recalled from office. Roden served until mid-1947 and was defeated for reelection.-Biography:...
10,046 (nominated) / Meade McClanahan
Meade McClanahan
Meade McClanahan was an industrial engineer and businessman who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1945 but was ousted by voters in 1946 based upon his support for controversial preacher and political organizer Gerald L.K...
2,783 / Willingham 1,454
14th
John C. Holland
John C. Holland
John C. Holland was one of the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council members, for 24 years from 1943 to 1967, and was known for his losing fight against bringing the Los Angeles Dodgers to Chavez Ravine and for his reputation as a watchdog over the city treasury.-Biography:Holland was born...
11,602 (elected) / Mitchell 4,373 / Bishop 2,528 / Baker 2,356 / Buckley 841
15th
George H. Moore
George H. Moore
George H. Moore , an attorney and a judge who was active in civic affairs of the Los Angeles Harbor region, was district attorney of San Benito County and a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1943 to 1951.-Biography:...
8,318 (nominated) / Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the Harbor and South Los Angeles districts from 1939 to 1943.-Biography:...
5,041 (nominated) / DeHoog 3,852 / Kisner 728
1947–49 City Council
7thDon A. Allen
Don A. Allen
Not to be confused with Charles A. Allen, Los Angeles City Council member, 1941–47.Don A. Allen, also known as Don A. Allen, Sr., was a member of the California State Assembly in the 1940s and 1950s and of the Los Angeles City Council between 1947 and 1956.-Biography:Allen was born on May 13, 1900...
14,542 (elected) / Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl C. Rasmussen
Carl Christian Rasmussen was a Lutheran minister who was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1939 and 1947.-Biography:...
9,408
8th
Kenneth Hahn
Kenneth Hahn
Kenneth "Kenny" Hahn was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years, from 1952 to 1992. Hahn was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1947 to 1952. He was an ardent supporter of civil rights throughout the 1960s, and met Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1961.-Biography:Hahn...
11,938 (elected / Charles A. Allen 9,235
9th
Parley Parker Christensen 11,233 (reelected) / Sheehan 9,540
13th
Ernest E. Debs
Ernest E. Debs
Ernest Eugene Debs , who went by Ernest E. Debs, was a California State Assembly member from 1942 to 1947, a Los Angeles city councilman from 1947 to 1958 and a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1958 to 1974....
15,932 (elected) / John R. Roden
John R. Roden
John R. Roden was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1946 to succeed Meade McClanahan, who was recalled from office. Roden served until mid-1947 and was defeated for reelection.-Biography:...
11,746
15th
George H. Moore
George H. Moore
George H. Moore , an attorney and a judge who was active in civic affairs of the Los Angeles Harbor region, was district attorney of San Benito County and a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1943 to 1951.-Biography:...
13.372 (reelected) / Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley
Wilder W. Hartley was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the Harbor and South Los Angeles districts from 1939 to 1943.-Biography:...
8,016
1949–53 Citywide
MayorFletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron was the 35th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from September 26, 1938 until June 30, 1953. Until Thomas Bradley passed his length of service during the 1980s, Bowron held the distinction of having the longest tenure in that position in city history.Bowron was born in Poway,...
179,929 (nominated) / Lloyd Aldrich
Lloyd Aldrich
Lloyd Aldrich was a civil engineer from Los Angeles who ran against Fletcher Bowron in 1949 for Los Angeles mayor.-External links:*...
87,766 (nominated) / Ellis Patterson 57,286 / Jack V. Tenney 48,162 / Olin E. Darby 18,806 / Shaw 2,716 / Attaway 2,647 / Weiss 1,506
1949–51 City Council
1stLeland S. Warburton
Leland S. Warburton
Leland S. Warburton, also known as Lee Warburton, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1953.Leland S. Warburton, also known as Lee Warburton, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1953....
17,073 (elected) / Lory 3,857
2nd
Lloyd G. Davies
Lloyd G. Davies
Lloyd G. Davies was a Hollywood advertising and public relations man and sometime actor who was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1943 to 1951.-Biography:...
17,179 (elected) / Barrett 3,490 / Barnes 2,505 / Smith 931
3rd
J. Win Austin
J. Win Austin
J. Win Austin was a retired businessman who became a Los Angeles, California, City Council member from 1941 to 1953. He was earlier on the Police and Health commissions.-Biography:...
17,373 (elected) / Klenner 4,078
4th
Harold A. Henry
Harold A. Henry
Not to be confused with Harold Harby, Los Angeles City Council member 1943–57.Harold A. Henry was a community newspaper publisher who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1945 and was its president for four terms from 1947 to 1962....
18,337 (elected) / Frolich 5,387
5th
George P. Cronk
George P. Cronk
Not to be confused with George H. Moore, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–1951.George Parkman Cronk , who went by George P. Cronk, was an insurance man who was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1952.-Biography:...
14,652 (elected) / McDonough 7,050 / Major 5,637
6th
L.E. Timberlake 16,086 (elected) / Wilson 4,318 / Boyle 2,093 / Dulgarian 1,290 / Orr 1,175 / Smith 836 / Caustin 809
7th
Don A. Allan 19,906 (elected) / Bryant 4,347
8th
Kenneth Hahn
Kenneth Hahn
Kenneth "Kenny" Hahn was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years, from 1952 to 1992. Hahn was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1947 to 1952. He was an ardent supporter of civil rights throughout the 1960s, and met Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1961.-Biography:Hahn...
22,277 (elected) / Olson 4,002
9th
Edward R. Roybal
Edward R. Roybal
Edward Ross "Ed" Roybal was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council for thirteen years and of the U.S. House of Representatives for thirty years.-Biography:...
11,139 (nominated) / Parley Parker Christensen 9,521 / Sheehan 2,754 / Sullivan 2,637
10th
No contest.
11th
No contest.
12th
Ed J. Davenport 17,811 (elected) / Kushner 4,811
13th
No contest.
14th
John C. Holland
John C. Holland
John C. Holland was one of the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council members, for 24 years from 1943 to 1967, and was known for his losing fight against bringing the Los Angeles Dodgers to Chavez Ravine and for his reputation as a watchdog over the city treasury.-Biography:Holland was born...
15,323 (elected) / Thrasher 8,237 / Meek 4,756
15th
George H. Moore
George H. Moore
George H. Moore , an attorney and a judge who was active in civic affairs of the Los Angeles Harbor region, was district attorney of San Benito County and a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1943 to 1951.-Biography:...
12,670 (elected) / McClung 8,307
1949–53 Citywide
MayorFletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron was the 35th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from September 26, 1938 until June 30, 1953. Until Thomas Bradley passed his length of service during the 1980s, Bowron held the distinction of having the longest tenure in that position in city history.Bowron was born in Poway,...
238,199 (reelected) / Lloyd Aldrich 207,211
1949–51 City Council
9thEdward R. Roybal
Edward R. Roybal
Edward Ross "Ed" Roybal was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council for thirteen years and of the U.S. House of Representatives for thirty years.-Biography:...
20,473 (elected) / Parley Parker Christensen 11,956
1951–53 City Council
1st Leland S. WarburtonLeland S. Warburton
Leland S. Warburton, also known as Lee Warburton, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1953.Leland S. Warburton, also known as Lee Warburton, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1953....
13,290 (elected) / O'Brien 12,800
2nd Earle D. Baker
Earle D. Baker
Not to be confused with George W. C. Baker, Los Angeles City Council member, 1931–35.Earle D. Baker was a prominent Hollywood food broker who was a member of the Los Angeles City Board of Education from 1949 to 1951 and of the Los Angeles City Council from 1951 until 1959.-Biography:Baker was born...
13,609 (elected) / Lloyd G. Davies
Lloyd G. Davies
Lloyd G. Davies was a Hollywood advertising and public relations man and sometime actor who was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1943 to 1951.-Biography:...
7,835 / Brady 3,718
3rd J. Win Austin
J. Win Austin
J. Win Austin was a retired businessman who became a Los Angeles, California, City Council member from 1941 to 1953. He was earlier on the Police and Health commissions.-Biography:...
18,942 (elected) / Klenner 4,585
4th Harold A. Henry
Harold A. Henry
Not to be confused with Harold Harby, Los Angeles City Council member 1943–57.Harold A. Henry was a community newspaper publisher who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1945 and was its president for four terms from 1947 to 1962....
17,005 (elected) / Melham 4,671
5th George P. Cronk
George P. Cronk
Not to be confused with George H. Moore, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–1951.George Parkman Cronk , who went by George P. Cronk, was an insurance man who was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1952.-Biography:...
15,505 (elected) / Case 4,112 / E. Snapper Ingram
E. Snapper Ingram
Ebenezer Snapper Ingram was a Los Angeles City Councilmember representing the 10th District from 1927 until 1935. He went by E. Snapper Ingram.-Biography:...
3,803
6th L.E. Timberlake 19,753 (elected) / Holzhausen 4,419
7th Don A. Allen
Don A. Allen
Not to be confused with Charles A. Allen, Los Angeles City Council member, 1941–47.Don A. Allen, also known as Don A. Allen, Sr., was a member of the California State Assembly in the 1940s and 1950s and of the Los Angeles City Council between 1947 and 1956.-Biography:Allen was born on May 13, 1900...
14,752 (elected)
8th Kenneth Hahn
Kenneth Hahn
Kenneth "Kenny" Hahn was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years, from 1952 to 1992. Hahn was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1947 to 1952. He was an ardent supporter of civil rights throughout the 1960s, and met Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1961.-Biography:Hahn...
15,277 (reelected)
9th Edward R. Roybal
Edward R. Roybal
Edward Ross "Ed" Roybal was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council for thirteen years and of the U.S. House of Representatives for thirty years.-Biography:...
17,941 (elected) / Rael 5 ,762
10th Kilpatrick 5,301 (nominated) / Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro , born Charles Navarro Guarino, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1951 and 1961 and city controller from 1961 to 1977.-Biography:...
5,077 (nominated) / G. Vernon Bennett
G. Vernon Bennett
Guy Vernon Bennett , also known as G. Vernon Bennett, was superintendent of schools in Pomona, California; a professor of education at the University of Southern California, and a Los Angeles city councilman from the 10th District from 1935 to 1951...
3,835 / Hubbard 2,250 / Charles E. Downs
Charles E. Downs
Charles E. Downs was the first Los Angeles City Council member representing the 10th District after a new city charter went into effect in 1925...
1,423
11th Harold Harby
Harold Harby
Not to be confused with Harold A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council member 1945–66.Harold Harby was elected to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1939, but he had to leave office in 1942 when he was convicted of using a city car for a trip out of the state. He was reelected in 1943 and...
12,728 (elected) / Hill 10,960
12th Ed J. Davenport 10,386 (elected) / Newton 5,019 / Payne 2,419 / McFarland 1,030
13th Ernest E. Debs
Ernest E. Debs
Ernest Eugene Debs , who went by Ernest E. Debs, was a California State Assembly member from 1942 to 1947, a Los Angeles city councilman from 1947 to 1958 and a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1958 to 1974....
15,804 (elected) / Monroe 7,505 / Balmer 1,670
14th John C. Holland
John C. Holland
John C. Holland was one of the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council members, for 24 years from 1943 to 1967, and was known for his losing fight against bringing the Los Angeles Dodgers to Chavez Ravine and for his reputation as a watchdog over the city treasury.-Biography:Holland was born...
13,809 (elected) / Garrick 9,461 / Hop 1,902 / Welchel 654
15th George H. Moore
George H. Moore
George H. Moore , an attorney and a judge who was active in civic affairs of the Los Angeles Harbor region, was district attorney of San Benito County and a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1943 to 1951.-Biography:...
7,541 (nominated) / John S. Gibson Jr. 6,852 (nominated) / Hillyer Jr. 3,988
1951–53 City Council
10th Charles NavarroCharles Navarro
Charles Navarro , born Charles Navarro Guarino, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1951 and 1961 and city controller from 1961 to 1977.-Biography:...
9.075 (elected) / Kilpatrick7,382
15th John S. Gibson Jr. 10,555 (elected) / George H. Moore
George H. Moore
George H. Moore , an attorney and a judge who was active in civic affairs of the Los Angeles Harbor region, was district attorney of San Benito County and a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1943 to 1951.-Biography:...
9,514
1953–57 citywide
Mayor Norris PoulsonNorris Poulson
C. Norris Poulson served as the 36th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1953 to 1961, after having been a California State Assemblyman and then a member of the United States Congress for eight years...
211,247 (nominated) / Fletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron was the 35th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from September 26, 1938 until June 30, 1953. Until Thomas Bradley passed his length of service during the 1980s, Bowron held the distinction of having the longest tenure in that position in city history.Bowron was born in Poway,...
178,362 / Aldrich 70,459 / Burke 16,470 / Weiss 3,542
City attorney Roger Arnebergh
Roger Arnebergh
Roger Arnebergh was an American politician. He served as Los Angeles City Attorney from 1953 to 1973.-Early life:...
280,195 (reelected) / Patterson 120,442 / Erwin 35,876
Controller Daniel O. Hoye
Daniel O. Hoye
Daniel O. "Dan" Hoye served as Los Angeles City Controller from 1937 to 1961. On January 19, 1937, after the resignation of John S. Myers, Hoye was appointed by the Los Angeles City Council to replace him. He served until 1961, when he was defeated by Charles Navarro.-References:...
317,526 (reelected) / Chenoweth 73,734
1953–57 City Council
Four-year terms for City Council members begin.1st Everett G. Burkhalter
Everett G. Burkhalter
Everett Glen Burkhalter , who went by Everett G. Burkhalter, was a film studio electrician who turned to politics in 1941 and became a member of the California State Assembly, the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress in the middle part of the 20th century.-Biography:Burkhalter was born in...
14,968 (nominated) / O'Brien (nominated) 10,583 / Garver 3,698 / Taylor 930
2nd Earle D. Baker
Earle D. Baker
Not to be confused with George W. C. Baker, Los Angeles City Council member, 1931–35.Earle D. Baker was a prominent Hollywood food broker who was a member of the Los Angeles City Board of Education from 1949 to 1951 and of the Los Angeles City Council from 1951 until 1959.-Biography:Baker was born...
24,257 (reelected) / O'Connor Jr. 4,665 / West 2,688
3rd Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson was a political figure and lobbyist in the San Fernando Valley in California. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1953 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1979.-Biography:...
5,803 (nominated) / O'Rourke 5,129 (nominated) / Plugge 4,140 / and 13 others
4th Harold A. Henry
Harold A. Henry
Not to be confused with Harold Harby, Los Angeles City Council member 1943–57.Harold A. Henry was a community newspaper publisher who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1945 and was its president for four terms from 1947 to 1962....
21,925 (reelected) / Schulman 4,195 / Long 4,018
5th Rosalind Wiener
Rosalind Wiener Wyman
Rosalind Wiener Wyman is a California political figure who was the youngest person ever elected to the Los Angeles City Council and the second woman to serve there. She was influential in bringing the baseball Dodgers from Brooklyn, New York, to their new home in Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles...
9,712 (nominated) / Marshrey 9,261 (nominated) / Nash 4,715 / and six others
6th L.E. Timberlake 16,876 (reelected) / Thruelson 12,504 / Behling 1,943
7th Don A. Allen
Don A. Allen
Not to be confused with Charles A. Allen, Los Angeles City Council member, 1941–47.Don A. Allen, also known as Don A. Allen, Sr., was a member of the California State Assembly in the 1940s and 1950s and of the Los Angeles City Council between 1947 and 1956.-Biography:Allen was born on May 13, 1900...
18,965 (reelected) / Smith 12,504 / Noeller 1,731
8th Gordon Hahn
Gordon Hahn
Gordon R. Hahn was a member of the Los Angeles City Council and California State Assembly in the mid-20th Century.While on the council, he cast the decisive vote that brought the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles and was instrumental in the appointment of Gilbert Lindsay, who became the first...
13,940 (elected) / Sorensen 5,296 / Rakestraw 3,352 / and five others
9th Edward R. Roybal
Edward R. Roybal
Edward Ross "Ed" Roybal was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council for thirteen years and of the U.S. House of Representatives for thirty years.-Biography:...
unopposed (reelected)
10th Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro , born Charles Navarro Guarino, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1951 and 1961 and city controller from 1961 to 1977.-Biography:...
14,892 (reelected) / Somerville 8,316 / Hayes 2,781 / and two others
11th Harold Harby
Harold Harby
Not to be confused with Harold A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council member 1945–66.Harold Harby was elected to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1939, but he had to leave office in 1942 when he was convicted of using a city car for a trip out of the state. He was reelected in 1943 and...
16,840 (reelected) / Hill 9,996 / Eckman 1,359 / and two others
12th Ed J. Davenport 14,025 (reelected) / Ransom M. Callicott
Ransom M. Callicott
Ransom M. Callicott was president of the National Restaurant Association, co-founder of Meals for Millions and a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1955 until his death...
13,582
13th Ernest E. Debs
Ernest E. Debs
Ernest Eugene Debs , who went by Ernest E. Debs, was a California State Assembly member from 1942 to 1947, a Los Angeles city councilman from 1947 to 1958 and a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1958 to 1974....
26,323 (reelected) / Mirabal 2,581 / McDonald 1,931
14th John C. Holland
John C. Holland
John C. Holland was one of the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council members, for 24 years from 1943 to 1967, and was known for his losing fight against bringing the Los Angeles Dodgers to Chavez Ravine and for his reputation as a watchdog over the city treasury.-Biography:Holland was born...
16,783 (reelected) / Garrick 13,349 / Sinclair 2,195
15th John S. Gibson, Jr.
John S. Gibson, Jr.
John S. Gibson, Jr. was a powerful San Pedro, California, politician who was on the Los Angeles City Council for thirty years between 1951 and 1981. He was the president of the council for sixteen of those years and was acting mayor when the mayor was out of the city...
16,896 (reelected) / Love 5,003 / and 2 others
1953–57 citywide
Mayor Norris PoulsonNorris Poulson
C. Norris Poulson served as the 36th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1953 to 1961, after having been a California State Assemblyman and then a member of the United States Congress for eight years...
287,619 (elected) / Fletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron was the 35th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from September 26, 1938 until June 30, 1953. Until Thomas Bradley passed his length of service during the 1980s, Bowron held the distinction of having the longest tenure in that position in city history.Bowron was born in Poway,...
252,721
1953–57 City Council
1st Everett G. BurkhalterEverett G. Burkhalter
Everett Glen Burkhalter , who went by Everett G. Burkhalter, was a film studio electrician who turned to politics in 1941 and became a member of the California State Assembly, the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress in the middle part of the 20th century.-Biography:Burkhalter was born in...
21,646 / O'Brien 13,919
3rd Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson was a political figure and lobbyist in the San Fernando Valley in California. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1953 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1979.-Biography:...
20,661 / O'Rourke 17,315
5th Rosalind Wiener
Rosalind Wiener Wyman
Rosalind Wiener Wyman is a California political figure who was the youngest person ever elected to the Los Angeles City Council and the second woman to serve there. She was influential in bringing the baseball Dodgers from Brooklyn, New York, to their new home in Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles...
21,110 / Elmer Marshrey 18,790
1955–59 City Council
2nd Earle D. BakerEarle D. Baker
Not to be confused with George W. C. Baker, Los Angeles City Council member, 1931–35.Earle D. Baker was a prominent Hollywood food broker who was a member of the Los Angeles City Board of Education from 1949 to 1951 and of the Los Angeles City Council from 1951 until 1959.-Biography:Baker was born...
17,478 (elected) / Fanning 9,689 / Bernhard 1,385 / Bassett 943
4th Harold A. Henry
Harold A. Henry
Not to be confused with Harold Harby, Los Angeles City Council member 1943–57.Harold A. Henry was a community newspaper publisher who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1945 and was its president for four terms from 1947 to 1962....
16,790 (elected) / Schulman 4,934 / Bartlett 2,534
6th L.E. Timberlake 21,409 (elected) / Rose 2,590 / Serias 2,103
8th Gordon Hahn
Gordon Hahn
Gordon R. Hahn was a member of the Los Angeles City Council and California State Assembly in the mid-20th Century.While on the council, he cast the decisive vote that brought the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles and was instrumental in the appointment of Gilbert Lindsay, who became the first...
13,974 (elected) / Givens 3,507 / Parks 3,185
10th Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro , born Charles Navarro Guarino, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1951 and 1961 and city controller from 1961 to 1977.-Biography:...
11,336 (elected) / Thomas 6,236 / Lomax 3,086 / Mackaig 1.555 / Whitworth 477
12th Ransom M. Callicott
Ransom M. Callicott
Ransom M. Callicott was president of the National Restaurant Association, co-founder of Meals for Millions and a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1955 until his death...
12,237 (elected) / Gummerman? 3,341? / Ketchum 2,013 / Abbott 1,858 / Borovay 723
14th John C. Holland
John C. Holland
John C. Holland was one of the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council members, for 24 years from 1943 to 1967, and was known for his losing fight against bringing the Los Angeles Dodgers to Chavez Ravine and for his reputation as a watchdog over the city treasury.-Biography:Holland was born...
14,012 (elected) / Woodward 11,532?
1957–61 citywide
Mayor Norris PoulsonNorris Poulson
C. Norris Poulson served as the 36th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1953 to 1961, after having been a California State Assemblyman and then a member of the United States Congress for eight years...
311,970 (elected) / Yeakel 141,306 / Ennis 44,112 / Carpenter 8,609 / Banks 7,094
1957–61 City Council
1st Everett G. BurkhalterEverett G. Burkhalter
Everett Glen Burkhalter , who went by Everett G. Burkhalter, was a film studio electrician who turned to politics in 1941 and became a member of the California State Assembly, the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress in the middle part of the 20th century.-Biography:Burkhalter was born in...
29,704 (elected) / Ames 6,209 / Brodnax 1,681
3rd Patrick D. McGee
Patrick D. McGee
Patrick D. McGee was a Republican member of the California State Assembly from 1950 to 1957 and from 1966 until his death in 1970. He was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1957 to 1961, when he opposed the city's agreement to bring the Dodgers baseball team to a new stadium in Chavez...
18,648 (elected) / Maguire 6,437 / Brouillette 6,318 / Violette 1,531 / King 1,046 / Miller 1,011 / Ross 630 / Fixler 599
5th Rosalind Wiener Wyman
Rosalind Wiener Wyman
Rosalind Wiener Wyman is a California political figure who was the youngest person ever elected to the Los Angeles City Council and the second woman to serve there. She was influential in bringing the baseball Dodgers from Brooklyn, New York, to their new home in Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles...
32,468 (elected) / Knoble 3,435 / Leeds 2,545 / Wolin 1,278
7th James C. Corman
James C. Corman
James Charles Corman was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1957 to 1961 and a Democratic Congressman from California between 1961 and 1981.-General:...
7,209 (nominated) / Kay Bogendorfer 6,729 (nominated) / Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi , known also as Noni Bernardi, was a big-band musician turned politician in Los Angeles, California. He represented District 7 on the City Council there from 1961 to 1993—at 32 years the second-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...
4,791 / Pulskamp 4,292 / Nadeau 2,952 / Plugge 2,778 / Connolly 2,071 / Alton 1,968 / Whitney 1,099 / Bongfeldt 1,027
9th No contest
11th Karl L. Rundberg
Karl L. Rundberg
Karl L. Rundberg was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1957 and 1965. He was convicted of accepting a bribe in 1967 when a member of the city's Harbor Commission and was placed on probation.-Biography:...
12,084 (nominated) / Harold Harby
Harold Harby
Not to be confused with Harold A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council member 1945–66.Harold Harby was elected to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1939, but he had to leave office in 1942 when he was convicted of using a city car for a trip out of the state. He was reelected in 1943 and...
(nominated) 9,091 / Raeburn 6,230 / Gottlieb 4,752 / Ryerson 872
13th No contest
15th No contest
1957–61 City Council
7th James C. CormanJames C. Corman
James Charles Corman was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1957 to 1961 and a Democratic Congressman from California between 1961 and 1981.-General:...
18,916 (elected) / Kay Bogendorfer 11,544
11th Karl L. Rundberg
Karl L. Rundberg
Karl L. Rundberg was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1957 and 1965. He was convicted of accepting a bribe in 1967 when a member of the city's Harbor Commission and was placed on probation.-Biography:...
17,524 (elected) / Harold Harby
Harold Harby
Not to be confused with Harold A. Henry, Los Angeles City Council member 1945–66.Harold Harby was elected to the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1939, but he had to leave office in 1942 when he was convicted of using a city car for a trip out of the state. He was reelected in 1943 and...
10,193
1959–63 City Council
2nd Lemoine Blanchard 12,814 (nominated) / Earle D. BakerEarle D. Baker
Not to be confused with George W. C. Baker, Los Angeles City Council member, 1931–35.Earle D. Baker was a prominent Hollywood food broker who was a member of the Los Angeles City Board of Education from 1949 to 1951 and of the Los Angeles City Council from 1951 until 1959.-Biography:Baker was born...
10,706 (nominated) / McCann 2,602 / Walt Emeson 2,295
4th Harold A. Henry
Harold A. Henry
Not to be confused with Harold Harby, Los Angeles City Council member 1943–57.Harold A. Henry was a community newspaper publisher who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1945 and was its president for four terms from 1947 to 1962....
20,680 (reelected) / Eaton 6,058 / Hersh 1,216
6th L.E. Timberlake 17,376 (reelected) / Davenport 4,496 / Serfas? 3,401
8th Gordon Hahn
Gordon Hahn
Gordon R. Hahn was a member of the Los Angeles City Council and California State Assembly in the mid-20th Century.While on the council, he cast the decisive vote that brought the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles and was instrumental in the appointment of Gilbert Lindsay, who became the first...
16,819 (reelected) / Tolbert 3,516 / Harper 2,064 / Fike 894
10th Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro , born Charles Navarro Guarino, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1951 and 1961 and city controller from 1961 to 1977.-Biography:...
12,961 (reelected) / Atkinson 7,628 / Allen 5,454 / Burke 2,696 / Gray 831
12th Ransom Callicott 12,740 (reelected) / Russell 6,520
13th (unexpired term of Ernest E. Debs) James Harvey Brown
James Harvey Brown
James Harvey Brown was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, between 1959 and 1964 and then municipal court judge in that city from 1964 to 1985.-Biography:...
7,864 (nominated) / Charles Bigler 4,005 (nominated) / Perino? 2,345 / Perkins? 2,238 / Runyan? 2,060 / Christopherson 1,970 / Pontino? 1,942 / Bearlay? 1,026 / Feingold? 540
14th John C. Holland
John C. Holland
John C. Holland was one of the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council members, for 24 years from 1943 to 1967, and was known for his losing fight against bringing the Los Angeles Dodgers to Chavez Ravine and for his reputation as a watchdog over the city treasury.-Biography:Holland was born...
15,959 (reelected) / Basden? 6,592 / Bodine? 3,852 / Broglia? 831 / Beal? 641 / Gledding? 287 / Runyon? 261 / Carson? 254
1959–63 City Council
2nd Lemoine Blanchard 16,195 (elected) / Earle D. BakerEarle D. Baker
Not to be confused with George W. C. Baker, Los Angeles City Council member, 1931–35.Earle D. Baker was a prominent Hollywood food broker who was a member of the Los Angeles City Board of Education from 1949 to 1951 and of the Los Angeles City Council from 1951 until 1959.-Biography:Baker was born...
13,178
10th Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro , born Charles Navarro Guarino, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1951 and 1961 and city controller from 1961 to 1977.-Biography:...
17,861 (reelected) / Atkinson 15,121
13th (unexpired term of Ernest E. Debs) James Harvey Brown
James Harvey Brown
James Harvey Brown was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, between 1959 and 1964 and then municipal court judge in that city from 1964 to 1985.-Biography:...
13,981 (elected) / Charles Bigler 10,609
1961–65 citywide
Mayor Norris PoulsonNorris Poulson
C. Norris Poulson served as the 36th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1953 to 1961, after having been a California State Assemblyman and then a member of the United States Congress for eight years...
179,273 (nominated) / Sam Yorty 122,475 (nominated) / Patrick D. McGee
Patrick D. McGee
Patrick D. McGee was a Republican member of the California State Assembly from 1950 to 1957 and from 1966 until his death in 1970. He was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1957 to 1961, when he opposed the city's agreement to bring the Dodgers baseball team to a new stadium in Chavez...
115,635 / Ronstadt 11,340 / Kessler 7,558 / Carpenter 7,267 / Miller 4,640 / Coover 2,141 / Lauria 1,598
City attorney Roger Arnebergh
Roger Arnebergh
Roger Arnebergh was an American politician. He served as Los Angeles City Attorney from 1953 to 1973.-Early life:...
299,411 (reelected) / Garrett 108,143
City controller Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro , born Charles Navarro Guarino, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1951 and 1961 and city controller from 1961 to 1977.-Biography:...
187,122 (nominated) / Daniel O. Hoye
Daniel O. Hoye
Daniel O. "Dan" Hoye served as Los Angeles City Controller from 1937 to 1961. On January 19, 1937, after the resignation of John S. Myers, Hoye was appointed by the Los Angeles City Council to replace him. He served until 1961, when he was defeated by Charles Navarro.-References:...
133,569 (nominated) / Fischer 65,318 / Kay 25,683
1961–65 City Council
1st Everett G. BurkhalterEverett G. Burkhalter
Everett Glen Burkhalter , who went by Everett G. Burkhalter, was a film studio electrician who turned to politics in 1941 and became a member of the California State Assembly, the Los Angeles City Council and the U.S. Congress in the middle part of the 20th century.-Biography:Burkhalter was born in...
17,284 (reelected) / Simmons 7,855 / Quevedo 2,499 / Hirsch 2,288
3rd Thomas D. Shepard
Thomas D. Shepard
Thomas D. Shepard, or Tom Shepard, was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1961 and 1967. He left office when he was convicted of receiving a bribe, and he served time in state prison.-Biography:...
11,532 (nominated) / Moffatt 7,449 (nominated) / Moss 4,282 / Anderson 2,258 / Hiscock 1,024 / Ellis 1,797 / Curran 1,295 / Clifton 1,271 / Lamm 1,241 / Van Arsdale 1,047 / Bergin 998 / Criz 943 / Wick 605 / Crosson 550 / Vance 333
5th Rosalind Wiener Wyman
Rosalind Wiener Wyman
Rosalind Wiener Wyman is a California political figure who was the youngest person ever elected to the Los Angeles City Council and the second woman to serve there. She was influential in bringing the baseball Dodgers from Brooklyn, New York, to their new home in Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles...
22,702 (reelected) 22,702 / Ben-Tovim 5,816 / Stewart 3,767 / Solin 2,624
7th Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi , known also as Noni Bernardi, was a big-band musician turned politician in Los Angeles, California. He represented District 7 on the City Council there from 1961 to 1993—at 32 years the second-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...
11,811 (nominated) / Hardy 5,040 (nominated) / Contino 4,444 / Harrison 3,244 / Winters 2,291 / Sitler 1,896 / McDonald 1,534 / Rosenberg 1,397 / Taylor 901 / Kliebert 546 / Milliner 511 / Wapner 436
9th Edward R. Roybal
Edward R. Roybal
Edward Ross "Ed" Roybal was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council for thirteen years and of the U.S. House of Representatives for thirty years.-Biography:...
17,291 (reelected) / Carter 2,777 / Ruiz 1,784
11th Karl L. Rundberg
Karl L. Rundberg
Karl L. Rundberg was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1957 and 1965. He was convicted of accepting a bribe in 1967 when a member of the city's Harbor Commission and was placed on probation.-Biography:...
20,521 (reelected) / Davis 6,760 / Gallagher 3,733
13th James Harvey Brown
James Harvey Brown
James Harvey Brown was a City Council member in Los Angeles, California, between 1959 and 1964 and then municipal court judge in that city from 1964 to 1985.-Biography:...
21,951 (reelected) / Libow 5,430 / Abel 1,904 / Berset 1,694
15th John S. Gibson
John S. Gibson
John Strickland Gibson was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.Born near Folkston, Georgia, Gibson attended the common schools....
19,928 (reelected)
1961–65 citywide
Mayor Samuel Yorty 273,073 (elected) / Norris PoulsonNorris Poulson
C. Norris Poulson served as the 36th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1953 to 1961, after having been a California State Assemblyman and then a member of the United States Congress for eight years...
257,073
City controller Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro , born Charles Navarro Guarino, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1951 and 1961 and city controller from 1961 to 1977.-Biography:...
331,340 (elected) / Dan O. Hoye 161,690
1961–65 City Council
3rd Thomas D. ShepardThomas D. Shepard
Thomas D. Shepard, or Tom Shepard, was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1961 and 1967. He left office when he was convicted of receiving a bribe, and he served time in state prison.-Biography:...
28,902 (elected) / Norbert B. Moffat 18,508
7th Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi , known also as Noni Bernardi, was a big-band musician turned politician in Los Angeles, California. He represented District 7 on the City Council there from 1961 to 1993—at 32 years the second-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...
22,291 (elected) / J. Howard Hardy 18,825
1963–67 City Council
1st Phill Silver 6,503 (nominated) / Louis R. NowellLouis R. Nowell
Louis R. Nowell was a Los Angeles city fire captain who was elected to the City Council in the San Fernando Valley in 1963 and served until 1977. A conservative, he favored more growth in residential areas and opposed school busing for the purpose of racial integration. He pleaded no contest and...
4,068 (nominated) / Foote 3,000 / Simmons 2,856 / Hamner 2,764 / Dodd 2,528 / Corrigan 1,948 / Lipton 1,939 / Imus 1,503 / DiFrancesco 705 / Rick 648 / Weeks 325
2nd C. Lemoine Blanchard
C. Lemoine Blanchard
C. Lemoine Blanchard was a businessman who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1959 until 1963 and a board member of the national YMCA..-Biography:...
13,758 (nominated) / James B. Potter, Jr.
James B. Potter, Jr.
James B. Potter, Jr. was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1963 and 1971. A sales manager for a tool company, when elected to the City Council he became its youngest member at age 31...
8,480 (nominated) / Feiner 7,119 / Michaels 2,251 / Walt Emeson 1,783 / Malone 638 / Hawthorne 348
4th Harold A. Henry
Harold A. Henry
Not to be confused with Harold Harby, Los Angeles City Council member 1943–57.Harold A. Henry was a community newspaper publisher who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1945 and was its president for four terms from 1947 to 1962....
20,793 (reelected) / O'Connor 4,696 / Kruger 1,388
6th L.E. Timberlake 14,818 (reelected) / Burke 10,635
8th Billy G. Mills
Billy G. Mills
Billy G. Mills is a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge and a former Los Angeles City Council member, serving from 1963 to 1974. He was one of the first three African-Americans elected to the council.-Biography:...
11,114 (nominated) / Leon Harrison 5,717 (nominated) / Porter 4,698 / Loyd 3,956 / Burton Jr. 1,297
9th Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay , also known as Gil Lindsay, was a Los Angeles, California, politician who worked his way up from City Hall janitor to become the city's first black City Council member and one of its most powerful elected officials...
11,631 (nominated) / Tafoya 9,096 (nominated) / Hinkle 1,741 / Sanchez 1,559 / Serrato 620 / Valencia 284
10th unexpired term ending June 30, 1963 Tom Bradley
Tom Bradley (politician)
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, serving in that office from 1973 to 1993. He was the first and to date only African American mayor of Los Angeles...
17,760 (elected) / Joe E. Hollingsworth
Joe E. Hollingsworth
Joseph E. Hollingsworth , who went by Joe E. Hollingsworth, was appointed in 1961 to replace Charles Navarro as Los Angeles City Council member for the racially mixed 10th district. He served for two years until he was ousted by retired policeman and future mayor Tom Bradley. He was the last...
10,540
10th full term starting July 1, 1963 Tom Bradley
Tom Bradley (politician)
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, serving in that office from 1973 to 1993. He was the first and to date only African American mayor of Los Angeles...
17,552 (elected) / Joe E. Hollingsworth
Joe E. Hollingsworth
Joseph E. Hollingsworth , who went by Joe E. Hollingsworth, was appointed in 1961 to replace Charles Navarro as Los Angeles City Council member for the racially mixed 10th district. He served for two years until he was ousted by retired policeman and future mayor Tom Bradley. He was the last...
10,400
12th John P. Cassidy
John P. Cassidy
John P. Cassidy was a newspaperman and public relations practitioner who became a Los Angeles City Council member in District 12 between 1962 and 1967...
12,788 (elected) / McDermott 4,339 / Jong 1,607 / Soles 1,220
14th John C. Holland
John C. Holland
John C. Holland was one of the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council members, for 24 years from 1943 to 1967, and was known for his losing fight against bringing the Los Angeles Dodgers to Chavez Ravine and for his reputation as a watchdog over the city treasury.-Biography:Holland was born...
16,140 (elected) / Hobart 9,921 / Mackey 2,419
1965–69 citywide
Mayor Samuel W. Yorty 392,776 (elected) / James RooseveltJames Roosevelt
James Roosevelt was the oldest son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was a United States Congressman, an officer in the United States Marine Corps, an aide to his father, the official Secretary to the President, a Democratic Party activist, and a businessman.-Early life:Roosevelt was...
247,313 / Ware 1,728 / Bolger 1,446 / Chrisoheris 915 / Hawthorne 696 / Coover 491
City attorney Roger Arnebergh
Roger Arnebergh
Roger Arnebergh was an American politician. He served as Los Angeles City Attorney from 1953 to 1973.-Early life:...
474,550 (elected)
City controller Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro , born Charles Navarro Guarino, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1951 and 1961 and city controller from 1961 to 1977.-Biography:...
470,324 (elected)
1965–69 City Council
1st Louis R. NowellLouis R. Nowell
Louis R. Nowell was a Los Angeles city fire captain who was elected to the City Council in the San Fernando Valley in 1963 and served until 1977. A conservative, he favored more growth in residential areas and opposed school busing for the purpose of racial integration. He pleaded no contest and...
27,574 (elected) / Skowron 7,260
3rd Thomas D. Shepard
Thomas D. Shepard
Thomas D. Shepard, or Tom Shepard, was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1961 and 1967. He left office when he was convicted of receiving a bribe, and he served time in state prison.-Biography:...
27,483 (elected) / Morris 12,840 / Slocum 1,764
5th Rosalind Wiener Wyman
Rosalind Wiener Wyman
Rosalind Wiener Wyman is a California political figure who was the youngest person ever elected to the Los Angeles City Council and the second woman to serve there. She was influential in bringing the baseball Dodgers from Brooklyn, New York, to their new home in Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles...
14,198 (nominated) / Edmund D. Edelman
Edmund D. Edelman
Edmund D. Edelman was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1965 to 1974 and of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1975 to 1994...
12,988 (nominated) / Teichner 10,153 / Halper 8,703 / Biren 4,958 / French 2,455 / Lertzman 320
7th Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi , known also as Noni Bernardi, was a big-band musician turned politician in Los Angeles, California. He represented District 7 on the City Council there from 1961 to 1993—at 32 years the second-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...
22,268 (reelected) / McIntyre 7,840 / Brown 4,417 / Carasso 1,822 / Simmons 1,228 / Frailich 595
9th Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay , also known as Gil Lindsay, was a Los Angeles, California, politician who worked his way up from City Hall janitor to become the city's first black City Council member and one of its most powerful elected officials...
25,477 (elected) / Calderon 10,662 / Valencia 2,606 / Brooks 1,145
11th Karl L. Rundberg
Karl L. Rundberg
Karl L. Rundberg was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1957 and 1965. He was convicted of accepting a bribe in 1967 when a member of the city's Harbor Commission and was placed on probation.-Biography:...
22,397 (nominated) / Marvin Braude
Marvin Braude
Marvin Braude was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for 32 years, between 1965 and 1997—the third-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...
11,033 (nominated) / Rogers 8,671 / Eells 4,103
13th unexpired term ending June 30, 1965 Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport was a Hollywood, California, developer and civic leader who was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1965 and 1969.-Family:...
13,554 (nominated) / Mary Tinglof 10,534 (nominated) / Libow 5,518 / Marvin 3,906 / Fenstermaker 2,427 / Pedroza 2,081 / Passow 2,059 / Nathanson 1,463
13th full term starting July 1, 1965 Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport was a Hollywood, California, developer and civic leader who was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1965 and 1969.-Family:...
13,031 / Mary Tinglof 9,913 (nominated) / Libow 5,208 / Marvin 3,735 / Fenstermaker 2,224 / Passow 1,832 / Pedrosa 1,752 / Nathanson 1,365 / Sullivan 656 / Angier 414 / Rivas 347 / Sellers 292 / Berset 90
15th John S. Gibson, Jr.
John S. Gibson, Jr.
John S. Gibson, Jr. was a powerful San Pedro, California, politician who was on the Los Angeles City Council for thirty years between 1951 and 1981. He was the president of the council for sixteen of those years and was acting mayor when the mayor was out of the city...
24,209 (reelected) / Aguirre 8,962
1965–69 City Council
5th Edmund D. EdelmanEdmund D. Edelman
Edmund D. Edelman was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1965 to 1974 and of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1975 to 1994...
37,291 (elected) / Rosalind Wiener Wyman 12,201
11th Marvin Braude
Marvin Braude
Marvin Braude was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for 32 years, between 1965 and 1997—the third-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...
22,023 (elected) / Karl L. Rundberg
Karl L. Rundberg
Karl L. Rundberg was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1957 and 1965. He was convicted of accepting a bribe in 1967 when a member of the city's Harbor Commission and was placed on probation.-Biography:...
18,976
13th unexpired term ending June 30, 1965 Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport was a Hollywood, California, developer and civic leader who was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1965 and 1969.-Family:...
21,675 (elected / Mary Tinglof 13,160
13th full term starting July 1, 1965 Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport was a Hollywood, California, developer and civic leader who was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1965 and 1969.-Family:...
21,269 (elected) / Mary Tinglof 13,160
1967–71 City Council
2nd James D. Potter, Jr. 14,868 (elected) / Walt Emeson 2,901 / Boyd 1,949 / Rick 1,3694th unexpired term John Ferraro
John Ferraro
John Ferraro was the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council member in the history of the city—thirty-five years, from 1966 until his death in 2001—and the president of the council for fourteen of them...
20,024 (elected) / Bourland 7,605
4th full term John Ferraro
John Ferraro
John Ferraro was the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council member in the history of the city—thirty-five years, from 1966 until his death in 2001—and the president of the council for fourteen of them...
19,612 (reelected) / Bourland 7,581
6th L.E. Timberlake 16,928 (reelected) / Killmeyer 2,198 / Carter 2,109 / O'Brien 1,206 / Peters 931
8th Billy G. Mills
Billy G. Mills
Billy G. Mills is a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge and a former Los Angeles City Council member, serving from 1963 to 1974. He was one of the first three African-Americans elected to the council.-Biography:...
21,650 (reelected) / Williams 892 / Burchett 850 / Green 829
10th Tom Bradley
Tom Bradley (politician)
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, serving in that office from 1973 to 1993. He was the first and to date only African American mayor of Los Angeles...
unopposed.
12th Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson was a political figure and lobbyist in the San Fernando Valley in California. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1953 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1979.-Biography:...
8,982 (nominated) / John P. Cassidy
John P. Cassidy
John P. Cassidy was a newspaperman and public relations practitioner who became a Los Angeles City Council member in District 12 between 1962 and 1967...
6,112 (nominated) / Cavnar 3,281 / Contino 2,844 / Jones 2,729 / Waisgerber 1,859 / Marrone 1,041 / Markham 603
14th Arthur K. Snyder
Arthur K. Snyder
Arthur K. Snyder, also known as Art Snyder, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1967 and 1985 and later engaged in a private law practice.-Biography:...
15,157 (elected) / Cook 4,014 / Wong 3,866 / Mackey 3,731 / Jacinto 1,168 / O'Neill 834 / George 646 / Orr 380 / Lockwood 360 / Hampton 135
1967–71 City Council
12th Robert M. WilkinsonRobert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson was a political figure and lobbyist in the San Fernando Valley in California. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1953 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1979.-Biography:...
24,312 (elected) / John P. Cassidy
John P. Cassidy
John P. Cassidy was a newspaperman and public relations practitioner who became a Los Angeles City Council member in District 12 between 1962 and 1967...
7,127
1969–73 citywide
Mayor Tom BradleyTom Bradley (politician)
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, serving in that office from 1973 to 1993. He was the first and to date only African American mayor of Los Angeles...
293,793 (nominated) / Sam Yorty 183,334 (nominated) / Baxter Ward
Baxter Ward
Baxter Ward was a television news anchor who served two terms on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Prior to his election on the board, he ran third in an unsuccessful bid to unseat Sam Yorty for Mayor of Los Angeles in 1969.In 1974, Ward launched the nation’s first county-owned...
116,555 / Bell 99,172 / Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson was a political figure and lobbyist in the San Fernando Valley in California. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1953 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1979.-Biography:...
2,682 / Steinberg 1,574 / Andreson 1,600 / Elliott 1,160 / Rourke 790 / Kline 718 / Whizin 659 / Hathaway 375 / Federick 277 / Schulner 169
City attorney Roger Arnebergh
Roger Arnebergh
Roger Arnebergh was an American politician. He served as Los Angeles City Attorney from 1953 to 1973.-Early life:...
384,355 (reelected)
City controller Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro , born Charles Navarro Guarino, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1951 and 1961 and city controller from 1961 to 1977.-Biography:...
379.971 (reelected)
1969–73 City Council
1st Louis R. NowellLouis R. Nowell
Louis R. Nowell was a Los Angeles city fire captain who was elected to the City Council in the San Fernando Valley in 1963 and served until 1977. A conservative, he favored more growth in residential areas and opposed school busing for the purpose of racial integration. He pleaded no contest and...
22,818 (reelected) / Jim Keysor 7,890 / Cortes 6,111 / Wahrman 3,958 / Wargo 1,099
3rd Howard W. Speer 13,778 (nominated) / Donald Lorenzen 9,519 (nominated) / Moffatt 5,159 / Walker 4,452 / Ames 3,597 / Moore 3,074 / New 2,813 / Falcone 1,551 / Smith 866
5th Edmund D. Edelman
Edmund D. Edelman
Edmund D. Edelman was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1965 to 1974 and of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1975 to 1994...
42,358 (reelected) / Rutledge 4,453 / Dans 2,550
7th Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi , known also as Noni Bernardi, was a big-band musician turned politician in Los Angeles, California. He represented District 7 on the City Council there from 1961 to 1993—at 32 years the second-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...
29,120 (reelected) / Onan 9,509 / Marrone 3,323
9th Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay , also known as Gil Lindsay, was a Los Angeles, California, politician who worked his way up from City Hall janitor to become the city's first black City Council member and one of its most powerful elected officials...
26,274 (reelected)
11th Marvin Braude
Marvin Braude
Marvin Braude was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for 32 years, between 1965 and 1997—the third-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...
35,962 (reelected)
13th Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport was a Hollywood, California, developer and civic leader who was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1965 and 1969.-Family:...
13,955 (nominated) / Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson and Peggy Stevenson
Robert J. Stevenson and Peggy Stevenson were a husband and wife who served consecutive terms totaling sixteen years in representation of the Hollywood-Silver Lake-Highland Park area on the Los Angeles City Council—Robert between 1969 and 1975 and Peggy between 1975 and 1985.-Biographies:Robert...
11,037 (nominated) / Pedroza 7,034 / Norman 2,951 / Scherb 2,309 / Newman 2,289 / Lemieux 1,084
15th John S. Gibson, Jr.
John S. Gibson, Jr.
John S. Gibson, Jr. was a powerful San Pedro, California, politician who was on the Los Angeles City Council for thirty years between 1951 and 1981. He was the president of the council for sixteen of those years and was acting mayor when the mayor was out of the city...
25,676 (reelected)
1969–73 citywide
Mayor Sam Yorty 447,030 (reelected) / Tom BradleyTom Bradley (politician)
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, serving in that office from 1973 to 1993. He was the first and to date only African American mayor of Los Angeles...
392,379
1969–73 City Council
3rd Donald Lorenzen 32,387 (elected) / Howard W. Speer 23,88813th Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson and Peggy Stevenson
Robert J. Stevenson and Peggy Stevenson were a husband and wife who served consecutive terms totaling sixteen years in representation of the Hollywood-Silver Lake-Highland Park area on the Los Angeles City Council—Robert between 1969 and 1975 and Peggy between 1975 and 1985.-Biographies:Robert...
26,335 (elected) / Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport was a Hollywood, California, developer and civic leader who was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1965 and 1969.-Family:...
22,935
1969–71 City Council
6th Pat RussellPat Russell
Pat Russell was the fourth woman to serve on the Los Angeles, California, City Council and the first woman to be City Council president .-Biography:...
won by 520 votes over her closest opponent, Frank Small. There were three other candidates.
1971–75 City Council
2nd Joel WachsJoel Wachs
Joel Wachs , was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member for thirty years and a three-time candidate for mayor of that city, who is now the president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City...
6,346 (nominated) / James B. Potter, Jr.
James B. Potter, Jr.
James B. Potter, Jr. was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1963 and 1971. A sales manager for a tool company, when elected to the City Council he became its youngest member at age 31...
6,016 (nominated) / Melograno 4,104 / Smith 3,718 / Commons 3,598 / Bennett 2,827 / Wieder 2,172 / Stanley Hirsh 606 / Rick 648 / Williams 572 / Walt Emeson 486 / Arthur Arthur 354 / True Slocum 207 / Eileen Nora Andreson 197 / Duberchin 126
4th John Ferraro
John Ferraro
John Ferraro was the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council member in the history of the city—thirty-five years, from 1966 until his death in 2001—and the president of the council for fourteen of them...
18,892 (reelected) / Federick 3,540
6th unexpired term of L.E. Timberlake Pat Russell
Pat Russell
Pat Russell was the fourth woman to serve on the Los Angeles, California, City Council and the first woman to be City Council president .-Biography:...
15,612 (reelected) / Small 11,040
6th Pat Russell
Pat Russell
Pat Russell was the fourth woman to serve on the Los Angeles, California, City Council and the first woman to be City Council president .-Biography:...
15,207 (reelected) / Frank Small 11,214
8th Billy G. Mills
Billy G. Mills
Billy G. Mills is a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge and a former Los Angeles City Council member, serving from 1963 to 1974. He was one of the first three African-Americans elected to the council.-Biography:...
18,778 (reelected)
10th Tom Bradley
Tom Bradley (politician)
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, serving in that office from 1973 to 1993. He was the first and to date only African American mayor of Los Angeles...
19,164 (reelected) / Henry 2,835
12th Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson was a political figure and lobbyist in the San Fernando Valley in California. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1953 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1979.-Biography:...
15,301 (reelected) / Waisgerber 4,221 / Holtz 2,835 / Christensen 2,608 / Boudreau 1,176
14th Arthur K. Snyder
Arthur K. Snyder
Arthur K. Snyder, also known as Art Snyder, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1967 and 1985 and later engaged in a private law practice.-Biography:...
21,500 (reelected) / Deal 5,261 / Perez 4,214
1971–75 City Council
2nd Joel WachsJoel Wachs
Joel Wachs , was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member for thirty years and a three-time candidate for mayor of that city, who is now the president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City...
24,704 (elected) / James B. Potter, Jr.
James B. Potter, Jr.
James B. Potter, Jr. was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1963 and 1971. A sales manager for a tool company, when elected to the City Council he became its youngest member at age 31...
14,898
1973–77 citywide
Mayor Tom BradleyTom Bradley (politician)
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, serving in that office from 1973 to 1993. He was the first and to date only African American mayor of Los Angeles...
233,789 (nominated) / Sam Yorty 190,649 (nominated) / Jess Unruh 114,693 / Reddin 83,930 / Joel Wachs
Joel Wachs
Joel Wachs , was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member for thirty years and a three-time candidate for mayor of that city, who is now the president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City...
24,907 / Dornan 4,849 / Rodriguez 2,326 / Bagley 2,118 / Anderson 1,037 / Watson 792 / Buchanan 685 / Orr 555 / Ware 371
City attorney Roger Arnebergh
Roger Arnebergh
Roger Arnebergh was an American politician. He served as Los Angeles City Attorney from 1953 to 1973.-Early life:...
249,750 (nominated) / Burt Pines
Burt Pines
Burt Pines is a California attorney and politician. He served as Los Angeles City Attorney from 1973 to 1981 and has served as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court since 2003.-Early life and education:...
211,260 (nominated) / Ira Reiner
Ira Reiner
Ira Kenneth Reiner is an American politician. He was the Los Angeles City Controller from 1977 to 1981, and was the Los Angeles City Attorney from 1981 to 1984, both times being succeeded by James Hahn. He is the Los Angeles County District Attorney from 1984 to 1992...
46,599 / Hyman 23,604
City controiller Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro
Charles Navarro , born Charles Navarro Guarino, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1951 and 1961 and city controller from 1961 to 1977.-Biography:...
356,245 (reelected) / Gold 81,253 / Hoag 41,613 / Day 33,323 / Blount 31,837 / Taylor 20,505 / Rees 13,929
1973–77 City Council
1st Louis R. NowellLouis R. Nowell
Louis R. Nowell was a Los Angeles city fire captain who was elected to the City Council in the San Fernando Valley in 1963 and served until 1977. A conservative, he favored more growth in residential areas and opposed school busing for the purpose of racial integration. He pleaded no contest and...
17,058 (reelected) / Howard A. Finn 6,395 / Rodney G. Harrison 3,229 / Dib 2,215 / Willis 1,674 / Hamlin 1,514
3rd Donald Lorenzen 18,886 (nominated) / Joy Picus 10,087 / Scola 8,602 / Dominguez 3,323 / Bach 3,150
5th Edmund D. Edelman
Edmund D. Edelman
Edmund D. Edelman was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1965 to 1974 and of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1975 to 1994...
42,179 (reelected)
7th Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi , known also as Noni Bernardi, was a big-band musician turned politician in Los Angeles, California. He represented District 7 on the City Council there from 1961 to 1993—at 32 years the second-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...
, 29,308 (reelected)
9th Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay , also known as Gil Lindsay, was a Los Angeles, California, politician who worked his way up from City Hall janitor to become the city's first black City Council member and one of its most powerful elected officials...
16,848 (reelected) / Hinkle 3,683 / Kelley 2,736 / Scott 2,075 / Stanley 1,959 / Barnett 1,693
11th Marvin Braude
Marvin Braude
Marvin Braude was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for 32 years, between 1965 and 1997—the third-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...
43,901 (reelected) / Falcone 5,269 / Henry 4,891 (One precinct missing)
13th Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson may refer to:* Robert Stevenson , United States* Robert Stevenson , first head men's basketball coach at DePaul University...
12,905 (nominated) / Kasper 11,313 / Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport
Paul H. Lamport was a Hollywood, California, developer and civic leader who was a Los Angeles City Council member between 1965 and 1969.-Family:...
4,922 / Estomo 3,879 / Perez 2,562 / Newman 1,750 / Machadah 1,534 / Discola 1,461
15th John S. Gibson, Jr.
John S. Gibson, Jr.
John S. Gibson, Jr. was a powerful San Pedro, California, politician who was on the Los Angeles City Council for thirty years between 1951 and 1981. He was the president of the council for sixteen of those years and was acting mayor when the mayor was out of the city...
16,789 (reelected) / Almeida 5,659 / Siegfried 2,768
1973–77 citywide
Mayor Tom BradleyTom Bradley (politician)
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, serving in that office from 1973 to 1993. He was the first and to date only African American mayor of Los Angeles...
431,222 (elected) / Sam Yorty 334,297
City attorney Burt Pines
Burt Pines
Burt Pines is a California attorney and politician. He served as Los Angeles City Attorney from 1973 to 1981 and has served as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court since 2003.-Early life and education:...
418, 856 (elected) / Roger Arnebergh
Roger Arnebergh
Roger Arnebergh was an American politician. He served as Los Angeles City Attorney from 1953 to 1973.-Early life:...
299,212
1973–77 City Council
3rd Don Lorenzen 27, 575 (reelected) / Joy Picus 27,027 (totals as determined by a recount)13th Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson may refer to:* Robert Stevenson , United States* Robert Stevenson , first head men's basketball coach at DePaul University...
27,231 (reelected) / Kasper 21,062
1975–79 City Council
2nd Joel WachsJoel Wachs
Joel Wachs , was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member for thirty years and a three-time candidate for mayor of that city, who is now the president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City...
1,321 (reelected) / Bell 97 / Rickless 94 / Kritt 55 / Gabriel 21
4th John Ferraro 6,275 (reelected) / Ogren 1,575 / Abella 832 / Broy 193
5th Savitch 2,433 (nominated) / Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D...
1,635 (nominated) / Rosalind Wiener Wyman
Rosalind Wiener Wyman
Rosalind Wiener Wyman is a California political figure who was the youngest person ever elected to the Los Angeles City Council and the second woman to serve there. She was influential in bringing the baseball Dodgers from Brooklyn, New York, to their new home in Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles...
1,523 / Pye 846 / Rutledge 339 / Richman 313 / French 219 / Hamm 132 / Cowan 103 / Milrad 82
6th Pat Russell
Pat Russell
Pat Russell was the fourth woman to serve on the Los Angeles, California, City Council and the first woman to be City Council president .-Biography:...
1,351 (reelected) / Overfelt 425 / Lee 157 / Nickel 40
8th unexpired term of Billy G. Mills
Billy G. Mills
Billy G. Mills is a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge and a former Los Angeles City Council member, serving from 1963 to 1974. He was one of the first three African-Americans elected to the council.-Biography:...
Robert C. Farrell
Robert C. Farrell
Robert C. Farrell was a journalist and a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1974 until 1991.-Biography:Farrell was born in Natchez, Mississippi, on October 1, 1936, and moved with his family to New Orleans and Newark, New Jersey, before settling in Los Angeles, where he attended Los...
4,879 (elected)
8th full term Robert C. Farrell
Robert C. Farrell
Robert C. Farrell was a journalist and a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1974 until 1991.-Biography:Farrell was born in Natchez, Mississippi, on October 1, 1936, and moved with his family to New Orleans and Newark, New Jersey, before settling in Los Angeles, where he attended Los...
3,873 (elected) / Curtis 809 / Justice 524
10th unexpired term of Tom Bradley
Tom Bradley (politician)
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, serving in that office from 1973 to 1993. He was the first and to date only African American mayor of Los Angeles...
David S. Cunningham, Jr.
David S. Cunningham, Jr.
David Surmier Cunningham, Jr., or Dave Cunningham, is a business executive who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1973 to succeed Council Member Tom Bradley, who had been elected mayor that year...
4,884 (elected)
10th full term David S. Cunningham, Jr.
David S. Cunningham, Jr.
David Surmier Cunningham, Jr., or Dave Cunningham, is a business executive who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1973 to succeed Council Member Tom Bradley, who had been elected mayor that year...
3,571 (elected) / Bradley 1,621 / MacMillan 648
12th Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson was a political figure and lobbyist in the San Fernando Valley in California. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1953 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1979.-Biography:...
1,613 (nominated) / Klein 1,306 (nominated) / Gallagher 482 / Dantona 343 / Goetzman 88
14th Arthur K. Snyder
Arthur K. Snyder
Arthur K. Snyder, also known as Art Snyder, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1967 and 1985 and later engaged in a private law practice.-Biography:...
5,161 (elected) / Lopez-Lee 2,957 / Avila 1,914 / Garcia 791 / Armas 225 / Bastides 144 / Pendas 30
1975–79 City Council
5th unexpired term of Edmund D. EdelmanEdmund D. Edelman
Edmund D. Edelman was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1965 to 1974 and of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1975 to 1994...
Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D...
23,372 (elected) / Savitch 19,606
12th Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson
Robert M. Wilkinson was a political figure and lobbyist in the San Fernando Valley in California. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1953 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1979.-Biography:...
20,391 (elected) / Klein 20,058
13th Peggy Stevenson 9,008 (elected) / Irving Kasper 6,900 / Quinn 5,342 / plus 26 other candidates
1977–81 Citywide
Mayor Tom BradleyTom Bradley (politician)
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, serving in that office from 1973 to 1993. He was the first and to date only African American mayor of Los Angeles...
287,927 (reelected) / Robbins 136,180 / Jarvis 47,665 / plus nine other candidates
City attorney Burt Pines
Burt Pines
Burt Pines is a California attorney and politician. He served as Los Angeles City Attorney from 1973 to 1981 and has served as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court since 2003.-Early life and education:...
366,398 (reelected) / Clancy 35,324 / Diamond 19,929 / plus two other candidates
City controller Ira Reiner
Ira Reiner
Ira Kenneth Reiner is an American politician. He was the Los Angeles City Controller from 1977 to 1981, and was the Los Angeles City Attorney from 1981 to 1984, both times being succeeded by James Hahn. He is the Los Angeles County District Attorney from 1984 to 1992...
185,328 (nominated) / Robert C. Cline 82,153 (nominated) / Louis R. Nowell 38,959 / plus seven other candidates
1977–81 City Council
1st Bob RonkaBob Ronka
Bob Ronka was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the San Fernando Valley's 1st District between 1977 and 1981. For a brief time he represented Leslie Van Houten in the Manson Family criminal murder case.-Biography:...
9,201 (nominated) / Peterson 5,098 (nominated) / Finn 3,406 / plus eleven other candidates
3rd Joy Picus 17,465 (nominated) / Donald Lorenzen 15,722 (nominated) / Moore 3,565 / plus three other candidates
5th Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D...
39,034 (reelected) / Milrad 3,613
7th Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi , known also as Noni Bernardi, was a big-band musician turned politician in Los Angeles, California. He represented District 7 on the City Council there from 1961 to 1993—at 32 years the second-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...
22,205 (reelected) / Unjian 8,212
9th Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay , also known as Gil Lindsay, was a Los Angeles, California, politician who worked his way up from City Hall janitor to become the city's first black City Council member and one of its most powerful elected officials...
19,696 (reelected) / Hinkle 2,201 / plus four other candidates
11th Marvin Braude
Marvin Braude
Marvin Braude was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for 32 years, between 1965 and 1997—the third-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...
28,416 (reelected) / Pye 10,114 / Crossley 5,534 (One precinct missing)
13th Peggy Stevenson 24,929 (reelected)
15th John S. Gibson, Jr.
John S. Gibson, Jr.
John S. Gibson, Jr. was a powerful San Pedro, California, politician who was on the Los Angeles City Council for thirty years between 1951 and 1981. He was the president of the council for sixteen of those years and was acting mayor when the mayor was out of the city...
10,269 (nominated) / Stanbery 4,335 (nominated) / Pescetti 2,559 / plus two other candidates
1977–81 City Council
1st Bob RonkaBob Ronka
Bob Ronka was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the San Fernando Valley's 1st District between 1977 and 1981. For a brief time he represented Leslie Van Houten in the Manson Family criminal murder case.-Biography:...
4,245 (elected) / Peterson 2,187
3rd Joy Picus 1,148 (elected) / Donald Lorenzen 993
15th John S. Gibson, Jr.
John S. Gibson, Jr.
John S. Gibson, Jr. was a powerful San Pedro, California, politician who was on the Los Angeles City Council for thirty years between 1951 and 1981. He was the president of the council for sixteen of those years and was acting mayor when the mayor was out of the city...
2,748 (reelected) / Stanbery 1,123
1979–83 City Council
Full returns unavailable.2nd Joel Wachs
Joel Wachs
Joel Wachs , was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member for thirty years and a three-time candidate for mayor of that city, who is now the president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City...
(elected) / Joseph J. Micciche / Morton J. Allen
4th John Ferraro
John Ferraro
John Ferraro was the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council member in the history of the city—thirty-five years, from 1966 until his death in 2001—and the president of the council for fourteen of them...
(elected with 84%)
6th Pat Russell
Pat Russell
Pat Russell was the fourth woman to serve on the Los Angeles, California, City Council and the first woman to be City Council president .-Biography:...
7,659 (elected) / Frank Overfelt 3,587 / plus three other candidates
8th Robert Farrell
Robert Farrell
Robert Farrell may refer to:*Robert C. Farrell, member of the Los Angeles City Council*Robert S. Farrell, Jr., American Republican politician from the state of Oregon*Robert Farrell, fictional super hero in Marvel Comics, known by the alias Rocket Racer...
(elected with 77%)
10th David S. Cunningham, Jr.
David S. Cunningham, Jr.
David Surmier Cunningham, Jr., or Dave Cunningham, is a business executive who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1973 to succeed Council Member Tom Bradley, who had been elected mayor that year...
9,116 (elected) / Nate Holden
Nate Holden
Nate Holden is a Los Angeles County politician who served four years in the California State Senate and 16 years on the Los Angeles City Council....
7,505
12th Barbara Klein 7,129 (nominated) / Hal Bernson
Hal Bernson
Hal Bernson is an American politician who served as Los Angeles City Council member representing the 12th district. He served on the city council for 24 years, from 1979 until his retirement in 2003....
6,700 (nominated) / plus fourteen other candidates
14th Arthur K. Snyder (elected) / unopposed
1981–85 Citywide
Mayor Tom BradleyTom Bradley (politician)
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, serving in that office from 1973 to 1993. He was the first and to date only African American mayor of Los Angeles...
279,501 (elected) / Sam Yorty 142,204 / Fischer 2,344 / plus sixteen others
City attorney Ira Reiner
Ira Reiner
Ira Kenneth Reiner is an American politician. He was the Los Angeles City Controller from 1977 to 1981, and was the Los Angeles City Attorney from 1981 to 1984, both times being succeeded by James Hahn. He is the Los Angeles County District Attorney from 1984 to 1992...
216,366 (nominated) / Bob Ronka
Bob Ronka
Bob Ronka was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the San Fernando Valley's 1st District between 1977 and 1981. For a brief time he represented Leslie Van Houten in the Manson Family criminal murder case.-Biography:...
137,254 (nominated) / Zinger 73,714 / Drabin 7,770
City controller James Hahn
James Hahn
James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn is an American politician. Hahn was elected the 40th Mayor of Los Angeles in 2001. He served until 2005, at which time he was defeated in his bid for re-election...
164,937 (nominated) / Weeks 75,146 (nominated) / Travis 61,500 / plus five other candidates
1981–85 City Council
1st Keysor 8,214 (nominated) / Howard FinnHoward Finn
Howard Arthur Finn was a Los Angeles City Councilman from the 1st district. He served from 1981 to 1986 until he died in office afer a heart attack.-References:...
4,801 (nominated) / Hayes 3,451 / plus six other candidates
3rd Joy Picus 21,241 (reelected) / Vanderbok 10,543
5th Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D...
34,651 (reelected) / Unopposed
7th Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi
Ernani Bernardi , known also as Noni Bernardi, was a big-band musician turned politician in Los Angeles, California. He represented District 7 on the City Council there from 1961 to 1993—at 32 years the second-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...
22,320 (reelected) / Goldener 5,245 / Mulman 1,878
9th Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay , also known as Gil Lindsay, was a Los Angeles, California, politician who worked his way up from City Hall janitor to become the city's first black City Council member and one of its most powerful elected officials...
18,510 (reelected) / Barnett 1,453 / Hinkle 1,320 / Bates 878
11th Marvin Braude
Marvin Braude
Marvin Braude was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for 32 years, between 1965 and 1997—the third-longest-serving council member in the history of the city...
27,469 (reelected) / Stout 6,230 / plus three other candidates
13th Peggy Stevenson 12,145 (nominated) / Michael Woo 11,770 (nominated) / Amador 2,049 / White 1,911
15th Joan Milke Flores
Joan Milke Flores
Joan Milke Flores is a former Los Angeles City Hall stenographer who served as Los Angeles City Councilwoman for the 15th district from 1981 to 1993. Flores ran in 1992 as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Representative from California to represent the 36th district. However, she lost to Jane...
8,046 (nominated) / Greenwood 4,786 (nominated) / Stanbery 2,005 / plus nine others
1981–85 citywide
City attorney Ira ReinerIra Reiner
Ira Kenneth Reiner is an American politician. He was the Los Angeles City Controller from 1977 to 1981, and was the Los Angeles City Attorney from 1981 to 1984, both times being succeeded by James Hahn. He is the Los Angeles County District Attorney from 1984 to 1992...
231,540 (elected) / Bob Ronka
Bob Ronka
Bob Ronka was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from the San Fernando Valley's 1st District between 1977 and 1981. For a brief time he represented Leslie Van Houten in the Manson Family criminal murder case.-Biography:...
133,205
City controller Jim Hahn 194,226 (elected) / Weeks 162,619
1981–85 City Council
1st Howard FinnHoward Finn
Howard Arthur Finn was a Los Angeles City Councilman from the 1st district. He served from 1981 to 1986 until he died in office afer a heart attack.-References:...
12,847 (elected) / Keysor 11,151
13th Peggy Stevenson 20,162 (reelected) / Michael Woo
Michael Woo
Michael K. Woo, also known as Mike Woo, is an educator who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1985 to 1993. He is now dean of the College of Environmental Design at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.-Family:...
13,018
15th Joan Milke Flores
Joan Milke Flores
Joan Milke Flores is a former Los Angeles City Hall stenographer who served as Los Angeles City Councilwoman for the 15th district from 1981 to 1993. Flores ran in 1992 as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Representative from California to represent the 36th district. However, she lost to Jane...
10,205 (elected) / Greenwood 9,943
1983–7 City Council
2nd Joel WachsJoel Wachs
Joel Wachs , was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member for thirty years and a three-time candidate for mayor of that city, who is now the president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York City...
17,518 (reelected) / Hays 2,219 / Paterson 1,322 / plus three others
4th John Ferraro
John Ferraro
John Ferraro was the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council member in the history of the city—thirty-five years, from 1966 until his death in 2001—and the president of the council for fourteen of them...
12,705 (reelected) / Ghandi 1,016 / Garza 907
6th Pat Russell
Pat Russell
Pat Russell was the fourth woman to serve on the Los Angeles, California, City Council and the first woman to be City Council president .-Biography:...
14,390 (reelected) / Simpson 6,423 / Stowe 3,290
8th Robert C. Farrell
Robert C. Farrell
Robert C. Farrell was a journalist and a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1974 until 1991.-Biography:Farrell was born in Natchez, Mississippi, on October 1, 1936, and moved with his family to New Orleans and Newark, New Jersey, before settling in Los Angeles, where he attended Los...
12,791 (reelected) / Hale 2,780 / Walton-James 1,479 / plus two others
10th David S. Cunningham, Jr.
David S. Cunningham, Jr.
David Surmier Cunningham, Jr., or Dave Cunningham, is a business executive who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1973 to succeed Council Member Tom Bradley, who had been elected mayor that year...
13,406 (reelected) / Wertz 2,084
12th Hal Bernson
Hal Bernson
Hal Bernson is an American politician who served as Los Angeles City Council member representing the 12th district. He served on the city council for 24 years, from 1979 until his retirement in 2003....
15,647 (reelected) / Sherman 8,704
14th Art Snyder
Arthur K. Snyder
Arthur K. Snyder, also known as Art Snyder, was a Los Angeles, California, City Council member between 1967 and 1985 and later engaged in a private law practice.-Biography:...
10,497 (reelected) / Rodriguez 8,952 / Schaefer 643 / plus three others
1985–89 citywide
Mayor Tom BradleyTom Bradley (politician)
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, California, serving in that office from 1973 to 1993. He was the first and to date only African American mayor of Los Angeles...
220,055 (reelected) / John Ferraro
John Ferraro
John Ferraro was the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council member in the history of the city—thirty-five years, from 1966 until his death in 2001—and the president of the council for fourteen of them...
98,163 / Eileen Anderson 1,293 / and six others
City attorney James Kenneth Hahn 167,797 (elected) / Lisa Specht 130,843 / Murray Kane 9,429 / plus two others
City controller Dan Shapiro 99,677 (nominated) / Rick Tuttle
Rick Tuttle
Rick Tuttle is an American politician. He was Los Angeles City Controller from 1985 to 2001. He stressed the importance of creating a strong democratic influence at UCLA, which was in his words "the best large public university in a major city." The four-term controller stepped down after...
86,939 (nominated) / Alice Travis 65,032 / Celes King III 28,003
1985–89 City Council
1st Howard FinnHoward Finn
Howard Arthur Finn was a Los Angeles City Councilman from the 1st district. He served from 1981 to 1986 until he died in office afer a heart attack.-References:...
12,398 (reelected) / Elton Michael 3,170 / Noel S. Horwin 1,869 / Louis Cichelli 341
3rd Joy Picus 15,513 (reelected) / Jeanne Nerno 5,525 / Matt Lynch 3,195 / plus three others
5th Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D...
24,597 (reelected) / Unopposed
7th Peggy Stevenson]] 8,690 (nominated) / [[Mike Woo]] 7,188 (nominated) / Michael Linfield 2,791 / plus three others
15th [[Joan Milke Flores]] 17,044 (reelected) / Unopposed
1985–89 City Council
13th [[Mike Woo]] 16,417 (elected) / [[Robert Stevenson and Peggy Stevenson 259,016 (reelected) / Virginia Garza 66,178 / Michael D. Margolin 39,7681997–2001 City Council
1st Mike HernandezMike Hernández
Mike Hernandez was a Los Angeles, California City Councilman. In 1997 Hernandez was arrested and pleaded guilty to purchasing and possessing cocaine. Because he struck a plea agreement whereby he agreed to seek treatment, the arrest was not in his record, and he was not required to resign his seat...
7,543 (reelected) / Rose Marie Lopez 5,313
3rd Laura Chick 28,564 (reelected) / Mort Diamond 6,581
5th Mike Feuer 35,683 (reelected) / Unopposed
7th Richard Alarcon
Richard Alarcón
Richard Anthony Alarcón is a California politician who is currently a Los Angeles City Councilman. A Democrat, he has previously served in the California State Senate and, for approximately three months, in the California State Assembly.Alarcón first served as an assistant to Los Angeles Mayor Tom...
12,460 (reelected) / Ollie McCauley (write-in) 196
9th Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay
Gilbert W. Lindsay , also known as Gil Lindsay, was a Los Angeles, California, politician who worked his way up from City Hall janitor to become the city's first black City Council member and one of its most powerful elected officials...
18,510 (reelected) / Barnett 1,453 / Hinkle 1,320 / Bates 878
11th Georgia Mercer 17,423 (nominated) / Cindy Miscikowski
Cindy Miscikowski
Cindy Miscikowski represented the 11th District on the Los Angeles City Council for two full terms from 1997 through 2005. Previously, she was an aide to Councilman Marvin Braude and the Executive Director of the Skirball Cultural Center in its beginning stages...
(nominated) 16,530 / Mark Isler 5,537 / Doug Friedman 2,898
13th Jackie Goldberg
Jackie Goldberg
Jackie Goldberg is an American politician and teacher, and a member of the Democratic Party. She is a former member of the California State Assembly....
13,823 (reelected) / Unopposed
15th Rudy Svorinich, Jr. 13,741 / Diana Ellizabeth Contreras 6,375 / Dennis Kortheuer 2,510
1997–2001 City Council
11th Cindy MiscikowskiCindy Miscikowski
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13,755 (elected) / Georgia Mercer 12,321
1999–2009
Election returns from the city archives http://parc3.lacity.org/api/cfm/netdocs/index.cfm?&H=1660&F=1661&L=1759&CSS=1663&SI=&SM=&SD=&SP=&catid=4612011–15 City Council
2nd Paul KrekorianPaul Krekorian
Paul Krekorian is an American politician and member of the Los Angeles City Council representing the second district. He was previously a member of the California State Assembly, and the Assistant Majority Floor Leader representing California's 43rd Assembly District...
12,692 (reelected) / Augusto Bisani 4,109
4th Tom Labonge
Tom LaBonge
Thomas J. "Tom" LaBonge is an American politician. He is a member of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 4th district. He has served since 2001, taking over the position upon the death of John Ferraro. The district represents a wide diversity of incomes and neighborhoods...
10,629 (reelected) / Tomås O'Grady 6,088 / Stephen Box 2,778
6th Tony Cardenas
Tony Cardenas
Tony Cardenas is an American politician. He is currently a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the Sixth Council District which covers portions of the southeast San Fernando Valley, including the communities of Arleta, Pacoima, Sun Valley, North Hollywood, Panorama City, Van Nuys...
4,788 (reelected) / Rich Goodman 1,539 / James (Jamie) Cordaro 1,238 / David Barron 734
8th Bernard C. Parks
Bernard C. Parks
Bernard C. Parks is an American politician. He is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles. He served as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from August 1997 to May 2002...
9,482 (reelected) / Forescee Hogan-Rowles 8,058 / Jabari S. Jumaane 975
10th Herb J. Wesson, Jr.
Herb Wesson
Herb J. Wesson, Jr. is an American politician. He currently serves as a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 10th district. He served in the State Assembly representing the 47th district from 1998 until 2004. He served as Speaker of the California State Assembly from 2002 until 2004...
9,744 (reelected) / Andrew (Andy) Kim 1,480 / Althea Rae Shaw 668 / plus three others
12th Mitchell Englander
Mitchell Englander
Mitchell Englander is the newest member of the Los Angeles City Council, since July 1, 2011. He represents the northeast and east San Fernando Valley.-Biography:Englander was born about 1971...
13,751 (elected) / Brad Smith 5,917 / Navraj (Singh) Singh 1,430 / plus three others
14th José Huizar
José Huizar
José Luis Huizar is an American elected official and a member of the Los Angeles City Council representing District 14. He was elected on November 8, 2005 in a special election to fill the seat vacated by current Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and was reelected to a full four-year term in...
10,945 (reelected) / Rudy Martinez 6,310
See also
- History of Los Angeles
- Los Angeles City CouncilLos Angeles City CouncilThe Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles.The Council is composed of fifteen members elected from single-member districts for four-year terms. The president of the council and the president pro tempore are chosen by the Council at the first regular meeting after...
- Los Angeles City Council presidents