Alan Gerald Sieroty (born 13 December 1930) is an American politician and attorney who served as a member of both chambers of the

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Early life and education

Born in

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, Sieroty was the son of retail store chain executive Julian M. Sieroty and the grandson of Adolph Sieroty, the downtown Los Angeles merchant who built the historic

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. His mother was Jean Sieroty, an immigrant from Poland who became a philanthropist and activist. He graduated from

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, then received his

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in 1952 from

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, where he was a member of the

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. He then received his

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from

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in 1956. Sieroty is Jewish.

Career

From 1961 to 1965, he was

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and Executive Secretary to

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. From 1965 to 1966, Sieroty was Deputy Director of the Chile-California Program. A

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, Sieroty was a

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man from 1967 until 1977, when he resigned just two months into his sixth term to become a

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. He was re-elected in 1978 but did not seek re-election in 1982. Sieroty was the author of the bill which made the California Sabretooth Tiger (''

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'') the official

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. His fellow politicians in the Legislature named a

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beach for him, Alan Sieroty Beach. He was Chairman of the Arts Task Force of the

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and was also a member of the board of directors of the

American Civil Liberties Union The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1920 "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States". T ...

. In 1985, Sieroty became founding

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of the

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and has been a member of its

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ever since.

References

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