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Alfreda Helen Abbott (b. 1931) —
also known as Alfreda Abbott; Alfreda Helen
Lester —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., March 8,
1931.
Democrat. Probation officer; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1972,
1988
(alternate); field representative for State Sen. Nicholas
Petris; member of California
Democratic State Central Committee, 1973.
Female.
Protestant.
Member, Delta
Sigma Theta.
Still living as of 1988.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Fred Alphonso Lester and Alberta (Penn) Lester; married
1954 to
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William Alvord (1833-1904) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., January
3, 1833.
Hardware
dealer; banker; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1871-73; San Francisco Police
Commissioner, 1878-99.
Member, Loyal
Legion; American
Forestry Association.
Died, of heart
failure due to bronchial
troubles, in San
Francisco, Calif., December
21, 1904 (age 71 years, 353
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Saundra Brown Armstrong (b. 1947) —
of California.
Born in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., March
23, 1947.
Police officer; lawyer;
member, Consumer Product Safety Commission, 1983-86; superior court
judge in California, 1989-91; U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of California, 1991-.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Still living as of 2000.
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Arthur A. Arvizu (1927-1997) —
of Bakersfield, Kern
County, Calif.
Born in Arvin, Kern
County, Calif., February
11, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; fire
fighter; president,
Kern County Fire Fighters Union; chair of
Kern County Democratic Party, 1964-66; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1968,
1972
(alternate).
Catholic.
Died December
5, 1997 (age 70 years, 297
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Memorial Park, Bakersfield, Calif.
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John Joseph Benoit (b. 1951) —
also known as John J. Benoit —
of Palm Desert, Riverside
County, Calif.; Bermuda Dunes, Riverside
County, Calif.
Born in 1951.
Republican. Police officer; member of California
state assembly 64th District, 2002-.
Catholic.
Member, Rotary.
Still living as of 2007.
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Thomas Bradley (1917-1998) —
also known as Tom Bradley —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Calvert, Robertson
County, Tex., December
29, 1917.
Democrat. Police officer; lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1968,
1972;
mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1973-93; defeated, 1969; candidate for Governor of
California, 1982, 1986.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Kappa
Alpha Psi; Urban
League; NAACP.
Received the Spingarn
Medal in 1984.
Died, of a heart
attack, at Kaiser Permanente Medical
Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
29, 1998 (age 80 years, 274
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Inglewood
Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif.
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Mike Brennler —
of Atascadero, San Luis
Obispo County, Calif.
Police detective; mayor
of Atascadero, Calif., 2008.
Still living as of 2008.
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Image source:
Cal Coast News, December 2, 2008 |
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William J. Dalton —
also known as Bill Dalton —
of Garden Grove, Orange
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif.
Police officer; mayor
of Garden Grove, Calif., 2004-.
Member, Elks; Lions.
Still living as of 2011.
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Richard Joseph Donovan (1926-1971) —
also known as Richard Donovan; Dick
Donovan —
of Chula Vista, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in New Rochelle Hospital,
New Rochelle, Westchester
County, N.Y., February
24, 1926.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; police
officer; lawyer;
member of California
state assembly, 1965-69; municipal judge in California, 1969-71;
died in office 1971.
Catholic;
later Congregationalist.
Member, Elks; Kiwanis;
Sons
of the American Revolution.
Suffered a self-inflicted
gunshot
wound, and died soon after, in a hospital
at Chula Vista, San Diego
County, Calif., November
21, 1971 (age 45 years, 270
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Glen
Abbey Memorial Park, Bonita, Calif.
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Bob Engler —
of Thousand Oaks, Ventura
County, Calif.
Fire chief; mayor
of Thousand Oaks, Calif., 2021-.
Member, Kiwanis.
Still living as of 2022.
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Image source:
City of Thousand Oaks |
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James Ray Files (b. 1884) —
also known as J. Ray Files —
of Fort Dodge, Webster
County, Iowa; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Iowa City, Johnson
County, Iowa, December
6, 1884.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Iowa, 1916; served in the U.S. Army during
World War I; candidate for Iowa
state attorney general, 1920; candidate for Governor of
Iowa, 1922; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Iowa,
1924
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee); Iowa
Democratic state chair, 1925-27; Los Angeles Police
Commissioner, 1940-45.; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1940,
1944
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization).
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; American
Legion.
Burial location unknown.
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Andy Fox —
of Thousand Oaks, Ventura
County, Calif.
Fire fighter; mayor
of Thousand Oaks, Calif., 1995-96, 2002-03, 2006-07, 2010-11,
2013-14, 2017-18.
Still living as of 2018.
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Image source:
City of Thousand Oaks |
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Alex Giuliani (c.1927-1997) —
of Hayward, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born about 1927.
Police officer; mayor
of Hayward, Calif., 1982-90.
Died, of cancer of the
aorta and spine, at Majestic Pines Convalescent Hospital,
Hayward, Alameda
County, Calif., December
5, 1997 (age about 70
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Walter A. Gordon (1894-1976) —
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., 1894.
Athletic
coach; police officer; lawyer; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1955-58; U.S.
District Judge for Virgin Islands, 1958-68.
African
ancestry. Member, Alpha
Phi Alpha; NAACP.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., April 1,
1976 (age about 81
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Melvin Bernard Grover (1921-2001) —
also known as Melvin Grover —
of California.
Born in Aspen, Pitkin
County, Colo., 1921.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; police officer;
lawyer;
superior court judge in California, 1983-97.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
18, 2001 (age about 80
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Larry D. Hansen —
of Lodi, San
Joaquin County, Calif.
Police officer; mayor of
Lodi, Calif., 2003-.
Still living as of 2004.
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Len Herendeen —
of Antioch, Contra
Costa County, Calif.
Police chief; mayor
of Antioch, Calif., 1995-96.
Still living as of 1996.
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Allan Oakley Hunter (1916-1995) —
also known as A. Oakley Hunter —
of Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 15,
1916.
Republican. Lawyer;
FBI special agent; U.S.
Representative from California, 1951-55 (9th District 1951-53,
12th District 1953-55); defeated, 1954; delegate to Republican
National Convention from California, 1952,
1960;
president and chairman, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie
Mae), 1970-81.
Died in Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., May 2,
1995 (age 78 years, 321
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Francis Michael Jordan (b. 1935) —
also known as Frank Jordan —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., February
20, 1935.
Police officer; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1992-96.
Still living as of 2014.
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Stephen C. Padilla (b. 1967) —
also known as Steve Padilla —
of Chula Vista, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in the U.S. Naval Hospital,
San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., 1967.
Democrat. Police detective; mayor
of Chula Vista, Calif., 2002-06; defeated, 2006.
Hispanic
ancestry. Gay.
Still living as of 2006.
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Louis J. Papan (1928-2007) —
also known as Lou Papan; Elias Papandricoupolos;
"The Enforcer"; "Leadfoot
Lou" —
of Daly City, San Mateo
County, Calif.; Millbrae, San Mateo
County, Calif.
Born in Springfield, Hampden
County, Mass., August
28, 1928.
Democrat. FBI agent; member of California
state assembly, 1973-86, 1997-2002; candidate for California
state senate, 1986 (Democratic), 2006; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from California, 1988.
Eastern
Orthodox. Greek
ancestry.
Died, apparently of a heart
attack, in Millbrae, San Mateo
County, Calif., April
28, 2007 (age 78 years, 243
days).
Interment at Skylawn
Memorial Park, San Mateo, Calif.
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Eric J. Perrodin (b. 1959) —
of Compton, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born February
26, 1959.
Police officer; lawyer; mayor
of Compton, Calif., 2001-.
Still living as of 2007.
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Phil Regan (1906-1996) —
also known as Philip Joseph Christopher Aloysius Regan;
"The Singing Cop" —
of Summerland, Santa
Barbara County, Calif.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., May 28,
1906.
Democrat. Detective; singer;
performed, Democratic National Convention, 1944,
1948;
arrested
in January 1973, and charged
with attempting to bribe
Santa Barbara County Supervisor Frank J. Frost $1,000 for his support
of a controversial rezoning; pleaded not guilty; tried and convicted;
sentenced to prison;
released after one year.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., February
11, 1996 (age 89 years, 259
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Calvary Cemetery, Santa Barbara, Calif.
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Frank D. Riggs (b. 1950) —
of California.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., September
5, 1950.
Republican. Police officer; real estate
developer; U.S.
Representative from California 1st District, 1991-93, 1995-99;
defeated, 1992.
Member, Habitat
for Humanity.
Still living as of 2014.
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Gerald Robert Sanders (b. 1950) —
also known as Jerry Sanders —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in San Pedro, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 14,
1950.
Police officer; San Diego Chief of Police 1993-959; mayor
of San Diego, Calif., 2005-.
Still living as of 2014.
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Charles Edward Sebastian (1873-1929) —
also known as Charles E. Sebastian —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Farmington, St.
Francois County, Mo., March
30, 1873.
Democrat. Police officer; Los Angeles Chief of Police,
1911-15; in 1915, he was accused of molesting
several teenage girls in a rooming house next to the police station;
indicted
by the county grand jury for contributing to the delinquency of a
minor; also indicted
for criminal contempt
of court for attempting to influence grand jurors; won election
for mayor while these cases were pending; tried
and acquitted on the molestation charge, but found
guilty of contempt for interference with the grand jury; mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1915-16; resigned 1916; defeated, 1917.
Died April
17, 1929 (age 56 years, 18
days).
Interment at Glen
Haven Memorial Park, Sylmar, Calif.
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H. Allen Smith (1909-1998) —
of Glendale, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Dixon, Lee
County, Ill., October
8, 1909.
Republican. FBI agent; member of California
state assembly, 1949-56; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California; U.S.
Representative from California 20th District, 1957-73; delegate
to Republican National Convention from California, 1960,
1972.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 4,
1998 (age 88 years, 239
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Steve Staveley —
of Anaheim, Orange
County, Calif.
Police chief; candidate for mayor
of Anaheim, Calif., 2002.
Still living as of 2002.
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Robert Wasserman (d. 2011) —
also known as Bob Wasserman —
of Fremont, Alameda
County, Calif.
Police chief; mayor
of Fremont, Calif., 2004-11; defeated, 1996; died in office 2011.
Died December
29, 2011.
Burial location unknown.
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William Henry Wilson (1877-1937) —
also known as William H. Wilson —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
6, 1877.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1913-16; Philadelphia director of
public safety, 1916-20; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 2nd District, 1935-37; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1936.
Died in Santa Barbara, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., August
11, 1937 (age 59 years, 248
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Evelle Jansen Younger (1918-1989) —
also known as Evelle J. Younger —
of California.
Born in Stamford, Harlan
County, Neb., June 19,
1918.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; FBI
agent; lawyer;
municipal judge in California, 1953-58; superior court judge in
California, 1958-64; Los
Angeles County District Attorney, 1964-70; California
state attorney general, 1971-79; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1972;
candidate for Governor of
California, 1978.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
American
Legion; Alpha
Tau Omega; Elks.
Died, of arteriosclerotic
cardiovascular
disease, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., May 4,
1989 (age 70 years, 319
days).
Interment at Los
Angeles National Cemetery, Westwood, Los Angeles, Calif.
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