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The mayor of Los Angeles is the chief executive of the Government of Los Angeles as set in the city charter. The current officeholder, the 43rd in the sequence of regular mayors, is Karen Bass, a member of the Democratic Party, though the office has been nonpartisan since 1909. [1]
The office of Alcalde, the Mayor of El Pueblo de la Reina de los Ángeles, was established in 1781 and elected annually without the right to reelection for two years. [3] [4] [5] In 1841, the office of alcalde was abolished, instead being replaced by two Jueces de Paz (Justice of the peace).
Karen Ruth Bass (/ ˈ b æ s /; born October 3, 1953) is an American politician, social worker, and former physician assistant who has served as the 43rd mayor of Los Angeles since 2022.
Richard Joseph Riordan (May 1, 1930 – April 19, 2023) was an American businessman, investor, military commander, philanthropist, and politician. A decorated Korean War veteran and a member of the Republican Party, Riordan served as the 39th mayor of Los Angeles from 1993 to 2001; he remains the most recent Republican to hold that office.
The government of the City of Los Angeles operates as a charter city (as opposed to a general law city) under the charter of the City of Los Angeles.The elected government is composed of the Los Angeles City Council with 15 city council districts and the mayor of Los Angeles, which operate under a mayor–council government, as well as several other elective offices.
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Eaton was the Los Angeles mayor from 1898 to 1900. For the office, he ran on the platform of establishing a new municipal water system for the city of Los Angeles. One year later in 1899, a 2.09 million US dollar bond measure was approved by city voters for the purchase of Los Angeles City Water Company's system.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore hold a press conference at L.A. City Hall on Friday to announce the chief's retirement, pending a replacement.