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Larry Agran

Larry Agran
Official City Portrait of Larry Agran.jpg
Member of the Irvine City Council
In office
December 14, 2004 – December 9, 2014
In office
December 8, 1998 – November 7, 2000
In office
July 10, 1984 – July 8, 1986
Mayor of Irvine, California
In office
November 7, 2000 – December 14, 2004
Preceded by Christina Shea
Succeeded by Beth Krom
In office
July 8, 1986 – July 20, 1990
Preceded by Dave Baker
Succeeded by Sally Anne Sheridan
In office
July 13, 1982 – July 10, 1984
Preceded by David Sills
Succeeded by David Sills
Personal details
Born Lawrence Alan Agran
February 2, 1945 (1945-02-02) (age 72)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nationality American
Political party Democratic
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
Profession Politician, lawyer and legal scholar
Religion Jewish

Lawrence Alan "Larry" Agran (born February 2, 1945) is a former mayor and city councilman of Irvine, California.

Agran was born in Chicago, the son of Selma Elizabeth (Meyerson) and Reuben Agran (originally "Agranowsky"). He was raised in a "politically liberal Jewish household". Agran graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966 with a Bachelor of Science degree in both history and economics. He then earned a juris doctor (with honors) from Harvard Law School in 1969, specializing in public interest law.

Agran served as legal counsel to the California State Senate Committee on Health and Welfare, and taught legislation and public policy at the UCLA School of Law and the University of California, Irvine Graduate School of Management.

Between 1979 and 1990, he served on the Irvine City Council, including six years as mayor (Irvine employs a council-manager government).

Agran rejoined the city council and has, for many years, served as a city councilman; he chaired the city’s Great Park board until February 2011. (The board is charged with planning, constructing and operating a new park of nearly 1,500 acres (6.1 km2) at the former Marine Corps Air Base El Toro in Irvine.) The fully funded, nearly $70 million Great Park Western Sector Park Development plan is in its first phase, and the North Lawn multi-use area was expected to open to the public in spring 2011. Construction was about to begin in early 2011 on an arts and culture area, to be followed by construction of three lighted soccer fields. A leased agricultural area of 114 acres (0.46 km2) produced its first crop of strawberries and the newly opened Great Park Carousel had more than 25,000 riders in the first two months of 2011.


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