Delamere Francis McCloskey (April 29, 1897 – December 14, 1983) was a Canadian-born American attorney and politician, who represented the 1st District on the Los Angeles City Council from 1941 to 1945.

[1][2][3] His wife, Irene, died of burns suffered in a December 13, 1965, accident in the back yard of their home at 13511 Hart Street, Van Nuys.

The stoves were reconditioned and lent to the Red Cross "so soldiers occupying isolated searchlight posts in the San Fernando Valley could keep warm on winter nights.

McCloskey voted in favor of a bill that would have given returned veterans preference over reemployment of conscientious objectors who had been given leaves of absence from their city service in order to enter special work camps set aside for them.

He wrote to Wendell L. Miller, a minister who objected to his stance: ... if all of our young men entered such refuges ... the nation would cease to exist and we would become vassals of the Japs and the Huns.

The City Council unanimously adopted McCloskey's resolution asking federal and state authorities to investigate a report that Japanese and Japanese-American detainees at Manzanar, California, would be put to work operating a large hog ranch that might pollute Los Angeles municipal water supplies from the Owens Valley.