Hugh C. Irey was an accountant, a special agent for the Department of the Interior, and was appointed to the police board in Los Angeles in October 1951. Herman Selvin was a Los Angeles attorney who served as the president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners from 1952 to 1953. Dr. John Somerville, born in Jamaica, was the first black graduate of USC School of Dentistry (1907). He married Vada Jetmore Watson (1912), who also became a dentist. He built the Somerville Hotel (1928), was instrumental in the founding of the Los Angeles chapter of NAACP (1914). He and served on the Police Commission 1949-1953 Meeting of Los Angeles Police Commission. From left: Dr. John A. Somerville, Herman Selvin, president Bates Booth, Irwin R. (Bob) Snyder, and Hugh Irey. Bates Booth was an attorney who was appointed as president of the Police Commission from 1951 to 1952. He was a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles, and served as a special assistant to the U.S. attorney general in Washington, D.C. Irwin R. (Bob) Snyder was reappointed to serve the Board of Police Commissioners for a term from 1947 to July 1, 1952.
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Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Dept. (Los Angeles, Calif.) African American civic leaders African American civil rights workers African American dentists African American lawyers Somerville, John Alexander, 1881-1973 Irey, Hugh C., 1897-1990 Snyder, Irwin R. (Irwin Robert), 1907-1994 Booth, Bates, 1903-1967 Selvin, Herman F., 1904-1982
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