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He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the California State Assembly, but he is most remembered for his turbulent three terms as the 37th Mayor of Los Angeles from 1961 to 1973. Although Yorty spent almost all of his political career as a Democrat, he became a Republican in 1973.
Samuel William Yorty dit Sam Yorty, né le 1er octobre 1909 à Lincoln (Nebraska) et mort le 5 juin 1998 à Los Angeles ( Californie ), est un homme politique américain membre du Parti démocrate 1 avant d'adhérer au Parti républicain en 1980.
6 juin 1998 · Samuel W. Yorty, who served three contentious terms as Los Angeles’ mayor during the turbulent 1960s, died Friday at the age of 88.
10 juin 1998 · A harsh critique of the late Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, who ran a racist and demagogic campaign against Tom Bradley in 1969. The article recounts Yorty's political career, his role in the Watts Riots and his legacy of division and fear.
Sam Yorty, the blunt-talking, self-promoting Mayor of Los Angeles who took credit for building up the city yet denied any responsibility for the Watts riots in 1965, died today. He...
5 juin 1998 · LOS ANGELES (June 5) -- Former Los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty has died. He was 88. Yorty had been hospitalized at UCLA Medical Center and was transferred to Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center...
Sam Yorty, 88, the colorfully cantankerous California politician who gained fame as the combative mayor of Los Angeles in the whirlwind years of the 1960s, died of pneumonia June 5 at his home in...
