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Kenneth Frederick Hahn (August 19, 1920 – October 12, 1997) 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. [2]
The Hahn family began when John Heinrich Hahn and his wife, Hattie Louise Wiggins Hahn, emigrated from Saskatchewan to Los Angeles in 1919. [1] The couple had seven children, including Gordon Hahn and Kenneth Hahn. Both brothers attended Pepperdine University, with Gordon later going on to graduate from the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
The building was renamed the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in 1992 in honor of Hahn's father, who was the county's longest-serving supervisor and a former Los Angeles City Council member.
Hahn is from a family of politicians. His father, Kenneth Hahn served as an LA City Councilman and as an LA County Supervisor for 40 years. Hahn's uncle, Gordon Hahn was a state assemblyman and an LA City Councilman and another uncle, John Hahn, was assistant county clerk. His cousin, Dale Hahn, is a Superior Court judge in San Mateo County.
The looming purchase could move workers and public services out of existing county offices, including the well-known Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, which dates to 1960.
Gordon Hahn (1919–2001), California Assemblyman 1947–53, Los Angeles Councilman 1953–63. Brother of Kenneth Hahn. [4]Kenneth Hahn (1920–1997), Los Angeles, California councilman 1947–52; member of the Los Angeles County, California Board of Supervisors 1952–92; candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate from California 1970.
James Hahn, former mayor of Los Angeles Kenneth Hahn (1920–1997), Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors member Nipsey Hussle (1985–2019), rapper, entrepreneur, community activist [ 32 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ]
The Princess Royal has paid tribute to the founder of an independent boarding school who fled his home country of Germany to escape the Holocaust. Gordonstoun founder Kurt Hahn, a German Jew, fled ...