Former Assemblywoman Marilyn Ryan, a Republican first elected in 1976, died Sunday. She was 75.
The Associated Press has a brief obituary.
In the 1960s, Ryan became active in development of the then-unincorporated Palos Verdes Peninsula . She later joined in the movement toward cityhood for Rancho Palos Verdes. She was elected the first mayor in 1973.
Ryan was elected to the Assembly in 1976 and served for six years, battling offshore oil drilling and Proposition 13, the 1978 initiative passed by voters to limit property tax hikes.
In 1983, then-Gov. George Deukmejian appointed Ryan director of the California Arts Council. She retired in 1985 because of severe rheumatoid arthritis.
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