sentences: "Cuddy, a Democrat, was elected to represent the 2nd Ward on the Los Angeles Common Council on December 5, 1887, for a term lasting to December 1888, but he resigned on January 17, 1888, effective January 23, after the council voted him in as police chief.Cuddy, who by February 1889 was operating a saloon, was sentenced to six months in jail by U.S. U.S.