Albert Joseph Wallace

Albert Joseph Wallace
25thLieutenant Governor of California
In office January 3, 1911 – January 5, 1915
Preceded by	Warren R. Porter
Succeeded by	John Morton Eshleman
Member of theLos Angeles City Councilfrom the 5th ward
In office December 13, 1906 – December 10, 1909
Preceded by	George A. Smith
Succeeded by	District eliminated
Personal details
Born	(1853-02-11)February 11, 1853 Mount Ephraim, Ohio
Died	February 23, 1939(1939-02-23)(aged 86) Los Angeles, California
Political party	Republican

For the American football player, seeA. J. Wallace (American football).

Albert Joseph Wallace(February 11, 1853 – February 23, 1939) was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1907–09 and lieutenant governor of California in 1910–14.

Personal

Wallace in 1911

Wallace was born on February 11, 1853, inWellington County, Ontario,the son of Donald Wallace of Scotland and Harriet Lasby of England. He had nine siblings—John D., George, Francis S., Alexander H., Charles L., Frank S., Lavinia M., Matilda H. and Mary A. Albert Joseph was educated atVictoria University, Toronto.He moved toPasadena, California,in 1886 and to Los Angeles in 1898.

Wallace was aUniversity of Southern Californiaregent in 1887 and received an honorarydoctor of lawsdegree from that school in 1912.He was president of the CaliforniaAnti-Saloon Leagueand of the Los AngelesYMCAboard of directors. He was identified with the development of theMethodist ChurchinSouthern California.In 1907 Wallace was elected one of the four vice presidents of the International YMCA convention in Washington, D.C.

His first wife was Serena Healy, who died in childbirth on June 19, 1882. His second was Grace Alice Clark ofWorcester, Massachusetts,whom Wallace met in Pasadena while she was vacationing there. They were married in Worcester about 1888, and after she moved to Los Angeles she became acharter memberof theEbell Club.They had four children, Kenneth Clark, Donald J., Helen Harriot and Katherine. She died on July 6, 1913.His third wife was Grace Hagar Wallace.

Wallace died at the age of 86 on February 23, 1939, in his home, 631 North McCadden Place inHancock Park, Los Angeles.His survivors were identified in hisLos Angeles Timesobituary as his widow, Mrs. Grace H. Wallace; two sons, Kenneth C. Wallace of Los Angeles and Donald H. Wallace of Long Beach; two daughters, Mrs. Helen Davis of Brooklyn, New York, and Mrs. Katherine Shannon of Bedford, Pennsylvania, and a sister, Mrs. S.F. Johnson of Pasadena. A funeral service was conducted at theFirst Hollywood Methodist Church,with interment at with interment atRosedale Cemetery.

Grace H. Wallace died on September 3, 1939.

Vocation

Wallace was a teacher between 1869 and 1872, and he was aMethodistminister from 1872 to 1878. He was later the president of the Kendon Petroleum Company.When he lived in Pasadena he and his brother, Frank S. Wallace, were "identified with the early 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 theBumiller Buildingfrom Isabelle M. Anderson, 1935, in exchange for his two-story building at 425 South Broadway, occupied by theW. T. GrantCompany.

Public service

Hiram Johnson, left, and A.J. Wallace, in theLos Angeles Herald,November 9, 1910

Wallace was named a member of theboard of trusteesof theUniversity of Southern Californiain 1895 and was board president from 1924 to 1927.On December 4, 1906, he was elected from the 5thWardas 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 waslieutenant governor of Californiafrom 1911 to 1915, duringHiram Johnson's first term. In 1921 Wallace was a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. senator, but he was defeated in the primary bySamuel Shortridge.