Curren Price
| Curren Price | |
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| Member of the Los Angeles City Council from the 9th district | |
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Assumed office July 1, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Jan Perry |
| Chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus | |
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In office December 6, 2010 – July 1, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Sandré Swanson |
| Succeeded by | Holly Mitchell |
| Member of the California State Senate from the 26th district |
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In office June 3, 2009 – July 1, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Mark Ridley-Thomas |
| Succeeded by | Holly Mitchell |
| Member of the California State Assembly from the 51st district |
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In office December 4, 2006 – June 3, 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Jerome Horton |
| Succeeded by | Steve Bradford |
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Inglewood City Councillor from the 1st District |
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In office April 20, 1993 – April 22, 1997 |
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In office April 24, 2001 – December 4, 2006 |
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| Personal details | |
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December 16, 1950 Los Angeles, California |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Del Richardson Price |
| Children | Dennis Richardson, Dakira Williams and Son-in-Law Joseph Williams |
| Residence | South Los Angeles, California |
| Alma mater |
Santa Clara University Stanford University |
| Occupation | Politician, Small business advocate |
| Religion | Christian Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Website | www.currenpricejr.com |
Curren De Mille Price, Jr. (born December 16, 1950, in Los Angeles, California) is a California politician from the Democratic Party, currently serving as a Los Angeles city council member for District 9. Price was a California State Senator, representing the state's 26th Senate District which he won in the May 19, 2009 special election to fill the seat vacated by Mark Ridley-Thomas. He previously served as a member of the California State Assembly, representing the state's 51st Assembly District. He was first elected to that position in 2006, and was re-elected in 2008. Price resigned as state senator on July 1, 2013, to be sworn in as Los Angeles city councilman.Holly Mitchell was elected to succeed him in the state senate.
Price attended Morningside High School and in 1967 became the first African-American to be elected as the school's student body president.
After graduation from high school, Price earned a scholarship to attend Stanford University, and in 1972, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the school in political science. Thereafter, he studied law at Santa Clara University. He graduated in 1976 with a Juris Doctor in law.
Following law school, Price worked for an export management company that represented companies in the sales of industrial products in Asia and the Middle East. From 1979-1989, Price lived in Washington, D.C., where he was active in the telecommunications industry (satellites, cellular, paging, and cable). As an advocate for minority enterprise, he was a featured speaker at conferences sponsored by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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