Oscar L. Hauge served on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

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 from 1938 until 1944.

Biography

Hauge was born on a Minnesota

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 farm on September 17, 1868. He was mayor of Long Beach, Calif., from 1927-1930. On December 1, 1938 he was appointed to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Leland M. Ford

Leland M. Ford

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, who had just been elected to the United States Congress

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. He served until 1944. On June 23, 1945, he died of a heart attack.