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Charles Norris Poulson (July 23, 1895 – September 25, 1982) was an American politician who represented Southern California in public office at the local, state, and federal levels. He served as the 36th Mayor of Los Angeles from 1953 to 1961, after having been a California State Assemblyman and then a member of the United States ...
26 set 1982 · Former Mayor Norris Poulson of Los Angeles, who was responsible for bringing the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958, died early yesterday at a convalescent hospital in Orange, Calif....
11 gen 2019 · This rightwing pivot during America’s 1950’s “Red-Scare,” conservative Republican Norris Poulson’s Los Angeles mayoral run centered on anti-public housing rhetoric, decrying public housing as...
Charles Norris Poulson (23 luglio 1895 - 25 settembre 1982) è stato un politico americano che rappresentava la California meridionale in cariche pubbliche a livello locale, statale e federale. Ha servito come 36esimo sindaco di Los Angeles dal 1953 al 1961, dopo essere stato membro dell'Assemblea dello Stato della California e poi membro del ...
In 1953 Norris Poulson, a political conservative, was elected mayor of Los Angeles on a platform that included opposition to construction of all new public housing projects. In addition, a public referendum was then passed barring all public housing in Los Angeles.
But by the time Norris Poulson was elected mayor in 1953, the project’s days were numbered. Poulson ran for office using the Chavez Ravine controversy as a platform, vowing to stop the housing project and other examples of “un-American” spending.
22 gen 2019 · In the 1950s, the Chavez Ravine neighborhoods were cleared out—through the use of eminent domain—to make space for public housing. But those plans were soon canceled when Norris Poulson, a conservative Republican, entered the mayoral race in Los Angeles, ran on an anti-public housing campaign using Red Scare tactics, and won.
