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Louis R. Nowell (1915–2009) was a Los Angeles city fire captain who was elected to the City Council in the San Fernando Valley in 1963 and served until 1977. A conservative, he favored more growth in residential areas and opposed school busing for the purpose of racial integration. He pleaded no contest and was fined for a violation of a campaign-reporting law. He was a member of the South Coast Regional Coastal Commission, ==Biography== Nowell was born February 8, 1915, in Salt Lake City, Utah, one of twelve children in the family of Oliver and Minnie Gordon Nowell, both of Salt Lake City. His father, a blacksmith, died when Louis was ten years old, and his mother brought him and two siblings to Los Angeles in 1931. He went to Franklin High School (Los Angeles) and to Los Angeles City College, where he majored in mechanical engineering. At one point he learned the building trade and was superintendent for construction of "several hundred" homes in Hawaii. Nowell joined the Los Angeles Fire Department in 1940 and served there for 23 years, rising to the rank of captain and being elected president of the 8,500-member Fire and Police Protective League.〔 He was married on April 20, 1941, to Maxine Barlow of Mason City, Iowa. They had three children, Julie, Jim and John, and since 1945 lived at 10205 Scoville Avenue〔(Location of the Nowell residence on "Mapping L.A." )〕 in the Sunland district of the northeast San Fernando Valley.〔(Los Angeles Public Library reference file )〕 Nowell was said to wear a "conservative label proudly." A ''Los Angeles Times'' reporter wrote of him: Without the university degrees that open doors to executive positions, winning his way from a 65 cents a day job thinning sugar beets in Utah to election to City Council . . . is a plus in any man's memoirs.〔()〕 Nowell died on July 2, 2009, in Camarillo, California. but his death was not announced by his family in Los Angeles until July 23. No cause of death was given. Memorial donations were suggested to the Widows, Orphans and Disabled Firemen's Fund of Los Angeles.〔(Valerie J. Nelson, "Louis R. Nowell dies at 94," ''Los Angeles Times,'' July 24, 2009 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis R. Nowell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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