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Ralph Luther Criswell
Ralph Luther Criswell (1861–1947), first a Socialist and then a Republican, was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for ten years in the early 20th Century. He then became a special agent, or lobbyist, for the Colorado River Project that brought water to Southern California.
==Biography==
Criswell was born on October 12, 1861, in Rushville, Illinois, to Edmund L. Criswell and the former Susan Catherine Wright. When he was fourteen, he worked in a print shop and became a Linotype machine operator. He joined the International Typographical Union in 1895 and managed the ''Johnstown News'' in Johnstown, Nebraska, and founded the ''Northwestern County Gazette'' in 1886 in Kansas.
Criswell was married in December 1885 in Tecumseh, Nebraska, to May Greene of Petersburg, Illinois, and after they moved to California in 1897 they lived in Santa Paula for a year, then settled at 529 West 41st Place, Los Angeles.〔(Bing map )〕 He was employed by the ''Los Angeles Herald'' and then the ''Los Angeles Examiner'' in 1903, when it was founded. He was a City Council member from 1917 to 1927 and then was hired by the Water and Power commissioners as a "special Colorado River agent."〔( "Criswell Given Old Power Job," ''Los Angeles Times,'' August 2, 1932, page A-1 )〕 He was a Methodist. Criswell died in his home, 4728 Whitewood Avenue, Lakewood Village, Long Beach, on November 17, 1947, and was buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery. He was survived by a son, Ralph Greene Criswell.〔(Los Angeles Public Library file. )〕〔("Ralph L. Criswell," ''Los Angeles Times,'' November 20, 1947, page 19 )〕
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