Ramon Rodriguez is a former mayor of Lynwood, California. Rodriguez was elected to the Lynwood City Council in 2001. In 2003, eight members of his family were charged with voter fraud after registering at a fictitious address to vote for his re-election. In December 2004, he was appointed mayor by the City Council. In the December 2005 election he lost re-election to the City Council. He was re-elected to the council in 2007 after a

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in September 2007 where mayor Louis Byrd and council members Fernando Pedroza,

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, and Alfreddie Johnson Jr were all removed from office. Rodriguez was born in the town of Valparaíso, Zacatecas,

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. His family migrated to the

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in 1964, and he grew up in

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, where he graduated from Artesia High School in Lakewood, California. He owns an

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store in Lynwood on Atlantic Avenue and is married to his wife Guadalupe; they have three sons and a daughter.

References

External links

Official Lynwood website profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rodriguez, Ramon Living people American politicians of Mexican descent Hispanic and Latino American mayors in California Mayors of places in California Mexican emigrants to the United States People from Lynwood, California Year of birth missing (living people) Mayors of Lynwood, California