About Ernest E. Debs
Ernest Eugene Debs (February 7, 1904 – March 17, 2002) 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. == Biography == Debs was born in Toledo, Ohio, on February 7, 1904, and came to California in a box car when he was 20 to work in the motion picture industry as a dancer. He was also a salesman. "He had no college education and prided himself on being a self-made man," the Los Angeles Times reported in his obituary. Debs married Lorene Marsh Robertson of Placerville, California, in 1944; they had two adopted children, David and Catherine Clare. They lived at 2416 McCready Avenue in the Silver Lake district. He was not related to Eugene V. Debs, the labor leader and Socialist candidate for president. He said in 1947: We're not even remotely related. I am often asked the question, however, and generally it brings up the subject of my party affiliations and general philosophy of government.
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