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Albert Robles is an American politician who has been California's senior Latino elected official since November 1991 and the former Mayor of Carson, California. When first elected in 1991 he was California's youngest person to hold public office. A member of the Democratic Party, Robles was elected mayor in 2015 to fill a vacancy and re-elected ...
2nd female mayor of Carson [2] Kay A. Calas (4th and 5th terms) 1987–1988 1988–1989 [2] Michael I. Mitoma 1989–1990 2nd Asian mayor of Carson [2] [12] [13] Vera Robles DeWitt 1990–1991 First Latino mayor of Carson [2] Michael I. Mitoma (2nd and 3rd terms) 1991–1992 1992–1997 From 1992, mayors were directly elected for 4-year terms [2]
Carson lies on part of the Spanish land grant Rancho San Pedro, from the King of Spain in 1784. [16] The Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum on Alameda Street in Compton (not far from Carson's city limits) is the historic ranch home of the grantees Juan Dominguez and Manuel Dominguez. Carson was named after George Henry Carson, who married a daughter ...
In 1968, he was elected as one of five members to the first City Council of Carson, incorporated February 20, 1968. [2] In 1970, he was elected to a four-year term on the City Council and [3] then was appointed mayor in a unanimous vote by the City Council [4] succeeding John L. Junk. [5] Carson was less than 20% African-American at the time. [4]
(The Center Square) - California still has four uncalled Congressional races as 1.7 million ballots remain to be counted over one week after Election Day, less than 10% of which are mail-in ...
Mayors of Carson, California (4 P) This page was last edited on 31 January 2025, at 17:29 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
1986 United States House of Representatives elections in California [13] Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Jim Bates (Incumbent) 70,557 : 64.2 : Republican: Bill Mitchell 36,359 33.2 Peace and Freedom: Shirley Rachel Issacson 1,676 1.5 Libertarian: Dennis Thompson 1,244 1.1 Total votes 109,836 : 100.0 : Democratic hold
In 1979, then-Governor Jerry Brown requested a report on the State's personnel system from the Little Hoover Commission, an independent government oversight agency, which resulted in several recommendations of which some were implemented, including the creation of the Department of Personnel Administration but other recommendations such as the dissolution of the California State Personnel ...