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Title
Newly elected councilwoman, Rosalind Wiener
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1953
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
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Rosalind (Roz) Wiener Wyman (b. 1930-) was the youngest person (and only the second woman) ever elected to the Los Angeles City Council and one of the youngest elected officials of a major U.S. city, as well as the first Jewish Council member in 53 years. Wyman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1948 and attended the University of Southern California where she received a B.S. in Public Administration in 1952. She became politically active in college, launched her successful campaign for the City Council seat and was elected in 1953 when she was just 22. During her first Council term in 1954 she married attorney Eugene Wyman, a graduate of Northwestern University and Harvard Law School - a fellow Democratic activist, who founded a large entertainment law firm in Los Angeles. While on the city council, Rosalind Wyman was the first female acting mayor, and she played a pivotal role in bringing the Dodgers baseball team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1957. Unfortunately, controversies over that arrangement contributed to Wyman's defeat for a fourth term in 1965. After leaving office, and in the sad aftermath of her husband's unexpected death in 1973, Wyman continued her involvement in political and public affairs, her influence extending beyond California to the national Democratic Party. During the 1974 congressional campaigns, she became the first woman to head a major party's fund-raising efforts. She served as Convention Chair and chief executive officer of the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, the first woman of either major Party to wield the gavel at a presidential nominating convention. Wyman has been a delegate to every Democratic National Convention since 1952 (except one), last attending the historic 2008 Convention which nominated Barack Obama. Wyman's national appointments include the UNESCO Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has been a leader of the Los Angeles Jewish community, has received many Jewish community awards, chaired fund-raising events, and served on the board of American Friends of the Hebrew University. Wyman has also been a board member of many arts, social services, educational and health organizations, and has received numerous awards, locally and nationally.
Los Angeles' newly elected Councilwoman Miss Rosalind Wiener (left) is shown selling tickets to the Democratic County Central Committee's Jamboree to fellow Councilman Edward R. Roybal. The Jamboree will take place July 31, at the Florentine Gardens, 5955 Hollywood Blvd. Photograph dated July 21, 1953.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00092882
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 13552
CARL0005005889
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28571
Subject
Wyman, Rosalind Wiener
Roybal, Edward Ross,--1916-2005
Los Angeles (Calif.).--City Council
Political candidates--California--Los Angeles
City council members--California--Los Angeles
Women city council members--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Group portraits
Time Period
1951-1960

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