Career
Byron Bernard Brainard, born 01 April 1894 in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States of America, was brought to Los Angeles in 1899 at the age of five. He continued his education through night school and extension courses. He worked up to chief mechanic for an automobile company, then turned to real estate and, before his election to the council in 1933, he edited and published the Southwest News-Press, a community newspaper.
He maintained a semiwieekly column called "Column Right" while a council member and after.
He could not be revived at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. Funeral services were conducted at Inglewood Park Cemetery by the Golden Gate Masonic Lodge and the Order of Druids, of which Brainard had been Noble Grand Architecture.
A month after his death (on 19 March 1940 in Los Angeles), an autopsy report revealed that Brainard had died of choking when a piece of meat lodged in his throat. Elections.
