John Clinton Porter

John Clinton Porter
Porter in 1933
33rd Mayor of Los Angeles
In office
July 1, 1929 – July 1, 1933
Preceded byGeorge E. Cryer
Succeeded byFrank L. Shaw
Personal details
BornApril 4, 1871
Leon, Iowa, U.S.
DiedMay 27, 1959(1959-05-27) (aged 88)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting placeForest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills
Political partyDemocratic

John Clinton Porter (April 4, 1871 – May 27, 1959) was a U.S. political figure. 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]

  1. ^ Cecilia Rasmussen (November 16, 1997). "A Mayor Who Stood for Reform". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2015-06-25. And few among them were more colorful than John Clinton Porter, whose unique mixture of reform politics and xenophobic Protestant populism took him quite literally from the junk yard to City Hall.
  2. ^ Stevenson, Brenda Elaine (September 1, 2015). The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots (1 ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 186. ISBN 978-0190231019. Retrieved 16 December 2020.

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