City Council
See also List of Los Angeles municipal election returns
In 1925 the 3rd District lay mostly south of the Santa Monica Mountains east of Sawtelle, with its eastern boundary at Western Avenue, and its southern boundary running along Washington Boulevard to embrace the Palms area. It included the Los Angeles Country Club and the Sawtelle district, and all the Santa Monica Mountains west of Sawtelle to the Ventura County line, including Pacific Palisades and Topanga Canyon.
Hughes was chosen over Edwin O. Loucks in the June 1925 election, 4,981 votes to 2,661.
Known as a defender of Mayor George E. Cryer and political figure Kent Kane Parrot, Hughes was defeated in the 1927 election by Ernest L. Webster.
Read more about this topic: Isaac F. Hughes
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