Mayor replaced in scandal’s wake
March 26, 1909: Bewhiskered 70-year-old George Alexander was chosen Los Angeles mayor in a special election, just a few weeks after Mayor Arthur Harper resigned from office amid a recall movement fueled by charges that he had fostered a sugar company stock swindle to line his pockets, took payoffs from casinos and was often found drunk in brothels.
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