Lyle Pendegast
LAPD Chief of Police, 1921–1922
About Lyle Pendegast
Lyle Pendegast was chief of police of the Los Angeles Police Department for eight months and three days in the early 1920s. Pendegast was an attorney by profession who had served as executive secretary to the preceding four chiefs of police.
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LAPD Chief of Police, 1921–1922
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