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Ernest E. Debs

Ernest E. Debs, American politician (died 2002)

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Born
February 7, 1904
Died
March 17, 2002
Zodiac sign
Aquarius
Birth year
1904

About Ernest E. Debs

Ernest Eugene Debs was an American politician. He was a California State Assembly member from 1942 to 1947, a Los Angeles city councilman from 1947 to 1958 and a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1958 to 1974. Debs gave up show business to become a sergeant-at-arms in the State Assembly, and in 1942 he won election to the Assembly in the 56th District. Debs first ran for the Los Angeles City Council District 8 seat in the "extreme southwest" of the city in 1931, but came in fourth in a field of eight candidates: Incumbent Evan Lewis was the winner. He had no opponent in 1949, and he won reelection in the 1951 and 1953 primaries.

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Ernest E. Debs timeline

  1. Debs first ran for the Los Angeles City Council District 8 seat in the "extreme southwest" of the city in 1931, but came in fourth in a field of eight candidates: Incumbent Evan Lewis was the winner.
  2. Debs gave up show business to become a sergeant-at-arms in the State Assembly, and in 1942 he won election to the Assembly in the 56th District.
  3. He had no opponent in 1949, and he won reelection in the 1951 and 1953 primaries.

The world when Ernest E. Debs was born

Ernest E. Debs was born in 1904. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1904

  • Best-selling book"The Crossing" – Winston Churchill

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentFirst Olympic Games in the Americas (St. Louis)
  • Top headlineRusso-Japanese War begins
  • Technology milestoneNew York subway opens
  • World population~1.64B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderTheodore Roosevelt
  • U.S. population81.8M

1904 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Ernest E. Debs's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19042026
Population81.8M341 million

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