boundary is La Brea Avenue, its north boundary is Pico Boulevard, its southern boundary the city limits and its western boundary the ocean." He and Charles W. Dempster were nominated in the primary over J.C. Barthel, the incumbent, who ran in the final election as a write-in. Coe received the most votes in the final election, 5,460, over Dempster, with 4,444, and Barthel, with 3,621; thus he did not have a majority but was the victor anyway. He was defeated for reelection in 1933 by Charles Winchester Breedlove, 9,082 votes to Breedlove's 11,275. Positions On the Police Commission, Coe consistently voted against the granting of permits for fortune tellers and clairvoyants, and when he got to the City Council, he submitted a resolution that would have outlawed palmistry, astrology and phrenology, calling them "unessential and unuseful." As a councilman, he "joined the group opposing the Mayor [Porter] and has been with that group ever since." Coe voted in summer 1931 against instructing the city attorney to appeal a judge's decision ordering the city to stop the practice of segregating its swimming pools by race. The vote was 6 in favor of an appeal and 8 opposed, including Coe, a vote that resulted in the pools' being immediately desegregated. References Access to the Los Angeles Times links requires the use of a library card. Los Angeles City Council members California Republicans 1873 births 1943 deaths People from Le Mars, Iowa