John Clinton Porter

The Los Angeles Times wrote that he represented a "unique mixture of reform politics and xenophobic Protestant populism [that] took him quite literally from the junk yard to City Hall."[1] Porter was a member of the Ku Klux Klan during its popular resurgence in the early 1920s.[2] He was born on April 4, 1871, in Leon, Iowa to Reverend Josephus Clinton Porter and Mathilda Catherine Gardner.He served as the 33rd mayor of Los Angeles between 1929 and 1933 when he replaced George Edward Cryer.[3] He ran for re-election twice more but was defeated in 1933 by Frank L. Shaw and in 1941 by Fletcher Bowron.
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