real estate development of the city." After moving to Los Angeles in 1898 he organized "several oil companies." He was a partner in the Ontario Water Company, and he was a director of the Euclid Oil Company, which proposed to "own and develop oil, water and mining claims." Other oil companies he helped organize were the Marengo and the Traders. As a Los Angeles real estate investor, he acquired the Bumiller Building from Isabelle M. Anderson, 1935, in exchange for his two-story building at 425 South Broadway, occupied by the W. T. Grant Company. Public service Wallace was named a member of the board of trustees of the University of Southern California in 1895 and was board president from 1924 to 1927. On December 4, 1906, he was elected from the 5th Ward as a Republican and nonpartisan to a three-year term on the Los Angeles City Council by a vote of 2,453 for Wallace against 629 for Naelle, his Democratic opponent. He was lieutenant governor of California from 1911 to 1915, during Hiram Johnson's first term. In 1921 Wallace was a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. senator, but he was defeated in that bid by Samuel Shortridge. Notes and references Lieutenant Governors of California California Republicans American temperance activists 1853 births 1939 deaths Los Angeles City Council members Activists from California Burials at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery YMCA leaders