Alpheus P. Hodges

Alpheus P. Hodges

1st Mayor of Los Angeles
In office July 1, 1850 – May 7, 1851
Preceded by	Stephen Clark Foster (pre-statehood)
Succeeded by	Benjamin Davis Wilson

Personal details
Born	1821 Virginia
Died	July 29, 1858 Alexandria, Virginia

Alpheus P. Hodges (1821 – July 29, 1858) was the first Mayor of Los Angeles, California after the city was incorporated on April 4, 1850. However, he was preceded by Stephen C. Foster, who was the first mayor under American rule.

Biography

He was born in 1821.

Hodges was originally a physician, but served as both the mayor and Coroner of Los Angeles, California from 1850 to 1851. At that time, the population of the city was only 1,610. A native of Virginia, he became mayor of the new city at age 28. He served as mayor for only a year, that being the term of the office at that time.

He later returned to Virginia, and died in Alexandria at the home of his father on July 29, 1858. He was aged 36 years and ten months.^[1]

Citations

↑ http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/surnames.hodges/3365/mb.ashx?pnt=1, citing obituary in the Richmond Whig & Public Advertiser, Friday, August 6, 1858, p.4, c.6.

References

Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials: 1850—1938, Compiled under Direction of Municipal Reference Library City Hall, Los Angeles March 1938 (Reprinted 1966)

Mayors of Los Angeles
	S. Foster¹ Hodges Wilson Nichols Coronel S. Foster T. Foster S. Foster Requena² Nichols Marchesseault Mellus Woodworth² Marchesseault Mascarel Aguilar Turner Aguilar Toberman Beaudry MacDougall Cohn Toberman Thom Spence Workman Bryson Hazard Bonsall² Rowan Rader Snyder Eaton Snyder McAleer Harper Stephens Alexander Rose Sebastian Woodman Snyder Cryer Porter Shaw Bowron Poulson Yorty Bradley Riordan Hahn Villaraigosa Garcetti
¹ Prior to city incorporation ² City Council president serving as acting mayor

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