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Robert John Lagomarsino (b. 1926) —
also known as Robert J. Lagomarsino —
of Ojai, Ventura
County, Calif.
Born in Ventura, Ventura
County, Calif., September
4, 1926.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II;
lawyer; member of California
state senate, 1961-74; U.S.
Representative from California, 1974-93 (13th District 1974-75,
19th District 1975-93).
Catholic.
Member, Delta
Sigma Phi; Rotary;
Elks; Moose; Eagles.
Still living as of 2014.
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Franklin Knight Lane (1864-1921) —
also known as Franklin K. Lane —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born near Charlottetown, Prince
Edward Island, July 15,
1864.
Democrat. Newspaper
reporter; lawyer; candidate for Governor of
California, 1902; member, Interstate Commerce Commission,
1906-13; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1913-20.
Died, of a heart
attack 12 days after appendicitis
surgery, at the Mayo Hospital,
Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn., May 18,
1921 (age 56 years, 307
days).
Cremated.
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Edward Lasker (1912-1997) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born May 15,
1912.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; movie
producer; lawyer; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1956,
1960;
director, Philip Morris tobacco
company, 1961-80.
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 11,
1997 (age 85 years, 57
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Milton Slocum Latham (1827-1882) —
also known as Milton S. Latham —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, May 23,
1827.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from California 1st District, 1853-55; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1855-57; Governor of
California, 1860; U.S.
Senator from California, 1860-63.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 4,
1882 (age 54 years, 285
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Oscar Lawler (b. 1875) —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Marshalltown, Marshall
County, Iowa, April 2,
1875.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of California, 1905-09;
director, Farmers and Merchants National Bank, Los
Angeles; director, San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Railway.
Member, Freemasons;
American Bar
Association; American
Society for International Law.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Thomas Lawler and Margaret (O'Connor) Lawler; married, June 17,
1901, to Hilda Brode. |
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Clarence Frederick Lea (1874-1964) —
also known as Clarence F. Lea —
of Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif.
Born near Highland Springs, Lake
County, Calif., July 11,
1874.
Democrat. Lawyer; Sonoma
County District Attorney, 1907-17; U.S.
Representative from California 1st District, 1917-49.
Baptist.
Member, Redmen;
Woodmen
of the World; Modern
Woodmen; Moose.
Died in Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif., June 20,
1964 (age 89 years, 345
days).
Interment at Franklin
Avenue Odd Fellows Cemetery, Santa Rosa, Calif.
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Susan Marian Leal (b. 1949) —
also known as Susan Leal —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., October
11, 1949.
Democrat. Lawyer; Member, San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
1993-97; Treasurer of San Francisco, 1997-2003; General Manager, San
Francisco Public
Utilities Commission, 2003-09; candidate for mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 2003; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 2004.
Female.
Mexican
ancestry. Lesbian.
Still living as of 2009.
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Edwin Mah Lee (b. 1952) —
also known as Ed Lee —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Seattle, King
County, Wash., May 5,
1952.
Democrat. Lawyer; San Francisco City Administrator, 2005-11;
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 2011-; appointed 2011.
Chinese
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Rex Edwin Lee (1935-1996) —
also known as Rex E. Lee —
of Tempe, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
27, 1935.
Republican. Lawyer; law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Byron
R. White, 1963-64; U.S. Solicitor General, 1981-85; president,
Brigham Young University, 1989-95.
Mormon.
Member, Rotary.
Died March
11, 1996 (age 61 years, 13
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Louis Leggett (1926-1997) —
also known as Robert L. Leggett —
of Vallejo, Solano
County, Calif.
Born in Richmond, Contra
Costa County, Calif., July 26,
1926.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of California
state assembly, 1961-62; U.S.
Representative from California 4th District, 1963-79; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1964,
1968
(alternate).
Member, Kiwanis;
Elks; Redmen;
Sons
of Italy; American
Legion; American Bar
Association.
Died of a heart
attack, in Orange, Orange
County, Calif., August
13, 1997 (age 71 years, 18
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Shannon Lerach (b. 1946) —
also known as William S. Lerach; Bill
Lerach —
of Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in 1946.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1996.
Plead
guilty in 2007 to federal charges
of conspiracy to commit obstruction
of justice and making false
declarations under oath in connection with a kickback
scheme; sentenced
to two years in prison, fined $250,000, and ordered to do 1,000 hours
of community service.
Still living as of 2010.
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Edgar Coleman Levey (1881-1962) —
also known as Edgar C. Levey —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in California, 1881.
Republican. Lawyer; member of California
state assembly, 1925-35, 1937-39; Speaker of
the California State Assembly, 1927-32.
Jewish.
Died in Hahnemann Hospital,
San
Francisco, Calif., October
8, 1962 (age about 81
years).
Burial location unknown.
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David F. Levi (b. 1951) —
of California.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., August
29, 1951.
Republican. Lawyer; clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Benjamin
C. Duniway, 1980-81, and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis
Powell, 1981-82; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of California, 1987-90; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of California, 1990-2007.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of
the Coif.
Still living as of 2007.
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Albert Levitt (1887-1968) —
of Redding, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Woodbine, Carroll
County, Md., March
14, 1887.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; chaplain;
lawyer; law
professor; Independent Republican candidate for Connecticut
state house of representatives from Redding, 1930; Independent
candidate for Governor of
Connecticut, 1932; Independent Citizen candidate for U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1934; U.S.
District Judge for Virgin Islands, 1935-36; as judge in 1935,
ordered election officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands to allow women
to vote; candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1950; candidate in Republican primary
for U.S.
Senator from New Hampshire, 1960.
Died June 18,
1968 (age 81 years, 96
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Mildred L. Lillie (1915-2002) —
also known as Mildred Kluckhohn —
of Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Ida Grove, Ida
County, Iowa, January
25, 1915.
Lawyer; municipal judge in California, 1947-49; superior court
judge in California, 1949-58; Judge,
California Court of Appeal, 1958-83.
Female.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Federal
Bar Association; American
Judicature Society; Soroptimists.
Died October
27, 2002 (age 87 years, 275
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Ottomar A. Kluckhohn and Florence E. (Martin) Kluckhohn;
married, March
18, 1947, to Cameron L. Lillie; married, August
27, 1966, to A. V. Falcone. |
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David Auen Linn (b. 1948) —
also known as David A. Linn —
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., August
8, 1948.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War;
lawyer; candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 18th District, 1988; member of California
Republican State Committee, 1989.
Catholic.
Member, American Bar
Association; Rotary.
Still living as of 1990.
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Relatives: Son
of William Anthony Linn and Margaret Irene (Auen) Linn; married, September
15, 1973, to Ellen Delaney. |
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Robert Frank List (b. 1936) —
also known as Robert List —
of Carson
City, Nev.; Las Vegas, Clark
County, Nev.
Born in Visalia, Tulare
County, Calif., September
1, 1936.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Nevada, 1968,
1972
(delegation chair); Nevada
state attorney general, 1971-78; Governor of
Nevada, 1979-83.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Phi
Alpha Delta; Elks; Rotary.
Still living as of 2014.
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Walter J. Little (1894-1960) —
of Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Indiana, 1894.
Republican. Lawyer; member of California
state assembly, 1925-34; Speaker of
the California State Assembly, 1933-34.
Protestant.
Died in 1960
(age about
66 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Alfred Collins Lockwood (1875-1951) —
also known as Alfred C. Lockwood —
of Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Ottawa, La Salle
County, Ill., July 20,
1875.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; superior court judge in Arizona, 1913-24;
justice
of Arizona state supreme court, 1925-43; chief
justice of Arizona Supreme Court, 1929-31, 1935-37, 1941-43.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks.
Died in Phoenix, Maricopa
County, Ariz., October
29, 1951 (age 76 years, 101
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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Zoe Lofgren (b. 1947) —
of San Jose, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in San Mateo, San Mateo
County, Calif., December
21, 1947.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1976,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
U.S.
Representative from California 16th District, 1995-.
Female.
Lutheran.
Member, Phi
Alpha Delta.
Still living as of 2014.
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William Paine Lord (1839-1911) —
also known as William P. Lord —
of Salem, Marion
County, Ore.
Born in Dover, Kent
County, Del., July 1,
1839.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;
lawyer; member of Oregon
state senate, 1878; justice of
Oregon state supreme court, 1880-94; chief
justice of Oregon state supreme court, 1880-82, 1886-88, 1892-94;
Governor
of Oregon, 1895-99; U.S. Minister to Argentina, 1899-1903.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
17, 1911 (age 71 years, 231
days).
Entombed at Mount
Crest Abbey Mausoleum, Salem, Ore.
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Daniel Edward Lungren (b. 1946) —
also known as Dan Lungren —
of Long Beach, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Roseville, Placer
County, Calif.; Folsom, Sacramento
County, Calif.; Gold River, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Long Beach, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
22, 1946.
Republican. Lawyer; staff for U.S. Sens. George
Murphy and Bill
Brock; U.S.
Representative from California, 1979-89, 2005-13 (34th District
1979-83, 42nd District 1983-89, 3rd District 2005-13); defeated,
2012; California
state attorney general, 1991-99; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1992,
2008;
candidate for Governor of
California, 1998.
Irish
and Swedish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2014.
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Hyman Lurio (d. 1924) —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Russia.
Socialist. Lawyer; candidate for Justice of
New York Supreme Court 2nd District, 1911, 1918 (Socialist).
Died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., January
28, 1924.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas C. Lynch (1904-1986) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born May 20,
1904.
Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from California, 1960,
1964;
California
state attorney general, 1964-71.
Died May 29,
1986 (age 82 years, 9
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Wesley Lyon (1887-1960) —
also known as Charles W. Lyon —
of Beverly Hills, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in California, 1887.
Republican. Lawyer; member of California
state assembly, 1915-17, 1933-49, 1951-57; Speaker of
the California State Assembly, 1943-46; member of California
state senate, 1917-29; delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1944.
Died, of cancer,
in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 20,
1960 (age about 73
years).
Interment at Inglewood
Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif.
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