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Rosalind Wyman, the youngest person ever elected to the Los Angeles City Council, has died

Por: Los Angeles Times Politics October 27, 2022

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Rosalind Wyman, the youngest person ever elected to the Los Angeles City Council, at age 22 in 1953, was best known for keeping an unusual campaign promise — vowing to bring Major League Baseball to Los Angeles. It took months of negotiations with the Dodgers' mercurial owner, Walter O'Malley, before he finally agreed to uproot the team from Brooklyn and head to L.A., the opening chapter in what would become the westward migration of... + full article



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