Los Angeles Common Council

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The Los Angeles Common Council was the predecessor of the Los Angeles, California, City Council. It was formed in 1850 under state law, when the city had only 1,610 residents, and it existed until 1889, when the city had about 50,400 residents and a city charter was put into effect.

From 1850 through 1869, council members were elected at large under a first-past-the-post voting system, in which the top vote-getters were seated. From 1870 they were elected by electoral districts called wards.

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The dates in the headers reflect the years of installation of the incoming councils.

[edit] 1850–59

City population in 1850: 1,610.

[edit] 1850

Election: July 1, 1850. / Term: July 3, 1850 to May 7, 1851.

[edit] 1851

Election: May 5, 1851. / Term: May 7, 1851, to May 4, 1852.

[edit] 1852

Election: May 3, 1852. / Term: May 4, 1852, to May 3, 1853.

[edit] 1853

Election: May 1, 1853. Term: May 3, 1853, to May 4, 1854.

  • Manuel Requena, president
  • John F. Jones (removed 9/6/1853
    • Henry R. Myles (special election 9/6/1853)
  • William T.B. Sanford[1]
  • Arnold Jacobi (resigned 8/23/1853)
    • Ezra Brown (special election 9/6/1853)
  • Pio Pico (did not assume office)
    • Juan Maria Sepulveda (special election 8/9/1853)
  • William R. Rand (removed 9/6/1853)
    • Collins Wadhams (special election 9/6/1853)
  • Jose Maria Doporto

[edit] 1854

Election: May 1, 1854. / Term: May 4, 1854, to May 9, 1855.

"At Councilman Lewis Granger's proposal at the May 4 session, the minutes of the Common Council were for the first time written in both Spanish and English, on alternate pages."[2]

"At Councilman Sanford's proposal[,] an invitation was extended to the two printers [in the city] to send a reporter each to their council meetings for the purpose of bringing any matter of general interest to the public through their newspapers."[2]

[edit] 1856

Election: May 5, 1856. / Term: May 7, 1856, to May 6, 1857.

[edit] 1857

Election: May 4, 1857. / Term: May 6, 1857, to May 10, 1858.

  • Antonio Franco Coronel, president
  • August Ulyard (resigned 6/22/1857)
    • George N. Whitman (special election 9/30/1857)
  • Joseph Mullaly
  • John Frohling
  • Hiram McLaughlin
  • John Barre
  • George Carson (Removed 1/19/1858)
    • David M. Porter (special election 1/19/1858)

[edit] 1858

Election: May 3, 1858. / Term: May 10, 1858, to May 9, 1859.

[edit] 1859

Election: May 2, 1859. / Term: May 9, 1859, to May 9, 1860.

  • Nehemiah A. Potter, president
  • Ezra Drown
  • James Baldwin
  • Geronimo Ybarra
  • Arthur McKenzie Dodson
  • David M. Porter (resigned 10/17/1859)
    • Vincent A. Hoover (special election 11/7/1859)
  • Wallace Woodworth

[edit] 1860–69

City population in 1860: 4,385.

[edit] 1860

Election (to come). / Term: May 9, 1860, to May 7, 1861.

  • Abel Stearns, president (resigned 12/3/1860)
    • William Moore (special election 12/15/1860)
  • Damien Marchesseault (resigned 12/27/1860)
  • T.B. Collins (resigned 8/20/1860)
    • William H. Peterson (special election 9/1/1860)
  • Elijah Moulton
  • Vincent A. Hoover
  • James Edwards, president from 12/3/1860 (resigned 8/20/1860)
    • Wallace Woodworth (special election 9/1/1860
  • Peter Baltz (resigned 6/18/1860)
    • David Anderson (special election 6/29/1860)

[edit] 1861

Election: May 6, 1861. / Term: May 7, 1861, to May 7, 1862.

[edit] 1862

Election: May 5, 1862. / Term: May 7, 1862, to May 9, 1863.

[edit] 1863

Election: May 4, 1863. / Term: May 9, 1863, to May 5, 1864.

[edit] 1864

Election: May 2, 1864. / Term: May 5, 1864, to May 6, 1865.

[edit] 1866

Election: May 7, 1866[3][4] / Term: May 10, 1866, to May 8, 1867.

[edit] 1867

Election: May 7, 1866.[3][4] / First term: May 10, 1866, to May 8, 1867. / Reinstated: August 8, 1867.
Second term: August 8, 1867, to December 7, 1868.

  • Murray Morrison, president to 6/1/1868 (resigned 6/1/1868)
  • Louis Roeder
  • John King, president from 6/1/1868
  • Antonio Franco Coronel (resigned 12/10/1867)
  • Jose Mascarel (position declared vacant 8/19/1867; reelected 9/2/1867)
  • John Schumacher
  • Elijah H. Workman (position declared vacant 8/19/1867)
  • Leonicio Botiller (elected 6/15/1868)
  • George Delton (elected 8/15/1868)

[edit] 1868

Election: December 7, 1868. / Term: December 9, 1868, to December 9, 1869. The ten councilmen elected this year drew lots for terms of one or two years. The president of the council was also selected by drawing lots.[5]

  • John King, president
  • Louis Roeder
  • Caro W. Childs
  • Henry Wartenberg
  • Dionisio Botiller
  • Mathew Keller
  • Moritz Morris
  • William H. Perry
  • Jose Mascarel
  • Jacob Metzger

[edit] 1869

Election: December 6, 1869. / Term: December 9, 1860, to December 9, 1870.

  • John King, president
  • Ozro W. Childs (resigned 1/13/1870
    • James R. Toberman (special election 2/23/1870)
  • Louis Roeder (resigned 6/23/1870)
  • Dionisio Botiller (resigned 1/20/1870)
  • Henry Wartenberg
  • Moritz Morris
  • Jose Mascarel (resigned 1/13/1870)
    • Luis B. Martinez (special election 2/23/1870
  • Samuel Bradford Caswell
  • Elijah H. Workman
  • Juan C. Vejar (added 3/31/1870)

[edit] 1870–79

City population in 1870: 5.730.

[edit] 1870

Election: December 5, 1870. / Term: December 9, 1870, to December 11,1871.

[edit] 1st Ward

[edit] 2nd Ward

  • William Ferguson
  • George Fall
  • Matthew Teed

[edit] 3rd Ward

[edit] 1871

Election: December 4, 1871. / Term: December 11, 1871, to December 5, 1872.

[edit] 1st Ward

[edit] 2nd Ward

[edit] 3rd Ward

[edit] 1872

Election: December 2, 1872. / Term: December 5, 1872, to December 4, 1873.

[edit] 1st Ward

  • Julian Valdes
  • Joseph Mullally
  • George R. Long (resigned 10/23/1873)

[edit] 2nd Ward

[edit] 3rd Ward

[edit] 1873

Election: December 1, 1873. / Term: December 4, 1868, to December 18, 1874.

[edit] 1st Ward

[edit] 2nd Ward

[edit] 3rd Ward

[edit] 1874

Election: December 7, 1874. / Term: December 18, 1874, to December 9, 1875.

"Beginning this year, the mayor also served as president of the City Council."[6]

[edit] 1st Ward

  • Thornton P. Campbell (resigned 4/15/1875; resignation voided by ordinance 6/3/1875)
  • Ramon R. Sotelo
  • Joseph Mullally
  • Joseph G. Carmona

[edit] 2nd Ward

  • Louis Lichtenberger
  • Matthew Teed
  • William Whipple Robinson
  • Jose Mascarel

[edit] 3rd Ward

[edit] 1875

Election: December 6, 1875. / Term: December 9, 1875, to December 6, 1876.

[edit] 1st Ward

  • Jacob F. Gherkins
  • Ramon R. Sotelo
  • Thornton P. Campbell
  • Joseph Mullally

[edit] 2nd Ward

[edit] 3rd Ward

  • Thomas Leahy
  • D.V. Waldron
  • Louis Wolfskill
  • Charles E. Huber

[edit] 1876

Election: December 4, 1876. / Term: December 8, 1876, to December 6, 1877.

[edit] 1st Ward

  • F. Tamiet
  • B. Valle
  • Ramon R. Sotelo
  • Jacob F. Gherkins (resigned 12/18/1876 to become chief of police)

[edit] 2nd Ward

[edit] 3rd Ward

  • Elisha K. Green
  • John B. Thompson
  • Thomas Leahy
  • D.V. Waldron

[edit] 1877

Election: December 3, 1877. / Term: December 6, 1877, to December 6, 1878.

[edit] 1st Ward

  • Joseph Mullally
  • Cayetano Apalblassa (declared vacant 5/2/1878)
  • F. Tamiet
  • B. Valle

[edit] 2nd Ward

[edit] 3rd Ward

  • John H. Jones
  • Albert Fenner Kercheval
  • John S. Thompson (resigned 1/18/1878)
  • Elisha K. Green

[edit] 1878

Election: December 2, 1878. / Term: December 5, 1878, to December 5, 1879.

[edit] 1st Ward

  • Ezra M. Hamilton
  • Louis Meinzer
  • John Schaeffer

[edit] 2nd Ward

  • Richard Molony
  • Jesse Houston Butler (resigned 8/14/1879; resignation rescinded 8/18/1879; reconsidered and resigned definitely 8/18/1879)
  • John Bobenreith (resigned 8/7/1879)

[edit] 3rd Ward

  • Charles Brode (resigned 3/13/1879)
  • Simon A. Francis
  • S.H. Buchanan

[edit] 4th Ward

[edit] 5th Ward

[edit] 1879

Election: December 5, 1879. / Term: December 5, 1879, to December 11, 1880.

[edit] 1st Ward

  • R.L. Beauchet
  • William Norton Monroe
  • Louis Meinzer

[edit] 2nd Ward

  • Jacob Kuhrtz
  • H. Schumacher
  • Richard Molony

[edit] 3rd Ward

  • Edward Falles Spence
  • Elisha K. Green
  • S.H. Buchanan

[edit] 4th Ward

[edit] 5th Ward

[edit] 1880–88

City population in 1880: 11,200.

[edit] 1880

Election: December 6, 1880. / Term: December 11, 1880, to December 10, 1881.

[edit] 1st Ward

  • J.G. Bower
  • R.L. Beauchet
  • William Norton Monroe (resigned 6/18/1881)

[edit] 2nd Ward

  • Matthew Teed
  • Jose Mascarel
  • Jacob Kurhtz

[edit] 3rd Ward

  • George Gephard (resigned 11/12/1881)
  • Edward Falles Spence
  • Elisha K. Green

[edit] 4th Ward

  • Bernard Cohn
  • Burdette Chandler
  • O.H. Bliss

[edit] 5th Ward

[edit] 1881

Election: December 5, 1881. / Term: December 10, 1881, to December 9, 1882.

[edit] 1st Ward

  • Joseph Mullally
  • Clinton S. Scheiffelin
  • J.G. Bower

[edit] 2nd Ward

  • Jacob Kurhtz
  • Jose Mascarel
  • Matthew Teed

[edit] 3rd Ward

  • Andrew S. Ryan
  • Robert Steere
  • J.B. O'Neil

[edit] 4th Ward

  • George Kerckhoff
  • Bernard Cohn
  • Burdette Chandler

[edit] 5th Ward

[edit] 1882

Election: December 4, 1892. / Term: December 9, 1892, to December 8, 1893.

[edit] 1st Ward

  • Charles W. Schroeder
  • Joseph Mullally
  • Clinton S. Scheiffelin

[edit] 2nd Ward

  • Pascal Ballade
  • Henry Hammel
  • Jacob Kurhtz

[edit] 3rd Ward

  • Charles Gassen
  • Andrew S. Ryan
  • Robert Steere

[edit] 4th Ward

  • Alfred Louis Bush (resigned 10/27/1883)
  • Joseph W. Wolfskill
  • George Kerckhoff

[edit] 5th Ward

[edit] 1883

Election: December 4, 1892. / Term: December 9, 1892, to December 8, 1893.

[edit] 1st Ward

  • Ezra M. Hamilton
  • William Thomas Lambie
  • Charles W. Schroeder

[edit] 2nd Ward

  • Frank R. Day
  • Pascal Ballade
  • Henry Hammel

[edit] 3rd Ward

  • Charles H. Johnson
  • Loring A. French
  • Charles Gassen

[edit] 4th Ward

  • B.E. Miles
  • Frank Sabichi
  • Joseph W. Wolfskill

[edit] 5th Ward

[edit] 1884

Election: December 1, 1884. / Term: December 9, 1884, to December 10, 1885.

[edit] 1st Ward

  • James Velsir
  • Ezra M. Hamilton
  • William Thomas Lambie

[edit] 2nd Ward

[edit] 3rd Ward

  • Albert Brown
  • Loring A. French
  • Charles H. Johnson (resigned 6/2/1885)

[edit] 4th Ward

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[edit] 5th Ward

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[edit] 1885

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[edit] 1886

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[edit] 1887

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[edit] 1888

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For continuation after this date, see Los Angeles City Council, 1889–1909,

[edit] Citations

[edit] References

Except for the population figures (see below), all data is from Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials,1850-1938, compiled under direction of Municipal Reference Library, City Hall, Los Angeles (March 1938, reprinted 1966). "Prepared ... as a report on Project No. SA 3123-5703-6077-8121-9900 conducted under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration."
Population figures are from Moffatt, Riley (1996). Population History of Western U.S. Cities & Towns, 1850–1990. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow. p. 41. "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places Over 100,000, Ranked by July 1, 2009 Population: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2009" (CSV). United States Census Bureau, Population Division. July 1, 2009. http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/tables/SUB-EST2009-01.csv. Retrieved June 28, 2010. 

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "William T.B. Sanford came to an untimely death on the ill-fated Ada Hancock." 1854-1855 section, page 5
  2. ^ a b 1854-1855 section, page 6
  3. ^ a b "August 8, 1867, the city officials elected May 6, were deposed and with few exceptions the officials elected the previous year (May 7, 1866) resumed office.
    "They officiated until April 6, 1866 when a new group of officials was elected, which although certified on April 9, never took office.
    "The 1866/67 administration, with a few changes continued to function from April 20th to the regular election changed, for the first time, to December 7, 1868.
    "In other words, with the exception of the time from May 6, to August 8, 1867, the governing body elected May 7, 1866, actually served until December 7, 1868." Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials,1850-1938, 1867-1868 section, page 1, first iteration
  4. ^ a b "According to the records of the City Council the election which occurred as usual in May [1867] proved invalid after the elected officials served for a period of three months only.
    "On August 8, 1867 this entire group of officials was replaced by the municipal officers elected the preceding year (May 7, 1866).
    "The first move of the reinstalled governing body was to legalize all the official acts of the deposed council[,] thus protecting the city corporation and the citizenry." Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials,1850-1938, 1867-1868 section, page 1, second iteration
  5. ^ Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials,1850-1938, 1868-1869 section, page 11
  6. ^ 1874-1875 section, page 1
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