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  • Edward R. Roybal, dean of Hispanic leaders in Los Angeles, dead at 89

    10/25/2005 6:13:59 PM PDT · by calcowgirl · 2 replies · 611+ views
    AP - San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | October 25, 2005 | CHRISTINA ALMEIDA
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Edward R. Roybal, who spent his political career, including three decades in Congress, fighting for minorities, the poor and the elderly, has died. He was 89. When elected to the House of Representatives in 1962, Roybal was the first Hispanic from California to serve in Congress since 1879. Roybal, who also served more than a decade on the Los Angeles City Council, died Monday night of respiratory failure complicated by pneumonia at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, according to a spokeswoman for his daughter, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa praised Roybal as...