Bobby Shriver
On January 21, 2014, "The Los Angeles Times" reported that Shriver launched his campaign for Los Angeles County supervisor. Shriver was defeated by former state senator Sheila Kuehl.
Philip Sichel
Philip Sichel (born about 1823 in Germany) was one of the first eight "recognizably Jewish" pioneers to settle in Los Angeles, California, after that city became part of the United States in 1848; he was listed in the first Los Angeles census in 1850. He was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of the city, from May 7, 1862, to May 6, 1865, and was on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in 1864, resigning on August 18 of that year.