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Todd Rex Gloria (born May 10, 1978) is an American elected official in San Diego, California. He served as the interim Mayor of San Diego after the resignation of former mayor Bob Filner in August 2013. His term as interim mayor concluded on March 3, 2014, when mayor-elect Kevin Faulconer was sworn in.〔http://www.cbs8.com/story/24685194/faulconer-maintains-lead-in-mayors-race〕 In addition to serving as interim mayor, Gloria is a City Council member representing District 3. He served as president of the nine-member Council from 2012 through 2014. He was elected to a four-year City Council term in 2008; he was re-elected and chosen as council president in 2012. He is a Democrat, although city council positions are officially nonpartisan per California state law. ==Life and career== Gloria is a third generation San Diegan, all four of his grandparents having moved to San Diego because of their involvement with the military. He has described his ethnic background in an interview as being: "()asically half Native American (Tlingit-Haida, an Alaskan tribe), a quarter Filipino and then a little bit of Dutch and Puerto Rican."〔 He grew up in the Clairemont neighborhood and attended Madison High School. He was interested in politics from childhood. At age 10 he was runner-up in a "mayor for a day" contest. At 14 he volunteered to work for Democratic candidates in the 1992 election. Gloria graduated ''summa cum laude'' from the University of San Diego, with majors in history and political science.〔(ASIAN JOURNAL a San Diego original. The 1st Asian Journal in Ca,USA. A Filipino American weekly. Online | Digital | Print Editions )〕 While a student at USD, Gloria was active in the effort to add "sexual orientation" to the campus nondiscrimination policy.〔 U.S. Congresswoman Susan Davis has been his political mentor ever since they first met in 1993, when Gloria was a high school freshman and Davis was the director of a leadership and cross-cultural understanding program for high school students.〔 In 2002, Gloria became Davis's district director,〔 a position he held until being elected to the city council in 2008.〔(Writer to hold funeral for unpublished novel | The San Diego Union-Tribune )〕 While working for Davis, Gloria also served as a San Diego Housing Commissioner from 2005 until 2008. Openly gay, he is also a former chairman of the San Diego LGBT Community Center and was a resident panelist on San Diego's Prostitution Impact Panel. 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「Todd Gloria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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