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Richard Joseph Riordan (May 1, 1930 – April 19, 2023) was an American businessman, investor, military commander, philanthropist, and politician. A decorated Korean War veteran and a member of the Republican Party, Riordan served as the 39th mayor of Los Angeles from 1993 to 2001; as of 2024, he remains the last Republican to hold that office.
Apr 20, 2023 · Richard J. Riordan, the take-charge venture capitalist who as mayor shepherded Los Angeles’ rebound from the 1992 riots, expanded its Police Department and masterminded its recovery from...
LA Times via YahooL.A. City Council approves Mayor Karen Bass' budget, cutting 1,700 vacant positions
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Apr 20, 2023 · Richard J. Riordan, a Queens-born lawyer, businessman and former mayor of Los Angeles who led the city at a particularly divisive time and brought a free-enterprise approach to rebuilding...
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Apr 20, 2023 · Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, who served two terms in the 1990s and saw the city through the 1994 Northridge earthquake, died Wednesday evening, his family announced. He was 92....
Apr 20, 2023 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Riordan, a wealthy Republican businessman who served two terms as Los Angeles mayor and steered the city through the Northridge earthquake and the recovery from the deadly 1992 riots, has died.
Apr 29, 2023 · In a concrete cathedral at the edge of a freeway, several generations of Los Angeles civic leaders mourned former Mayor Richard J. Riordan at a Friday afternoon Mass. Riordan died April...
Apr 20, 2023 · Richard Riordan, an investment mogul who seized a political moment with Los Angeles on edge, winning a long-shot bid in 1993 to become mayor and help the city rebound after the police...
