Ernest Eugene Kell Jr. (July 5, 1928 – April 29, 2017) served as mayor of Long Beach, California from 1984 to 1994, and as a city councilor for 13 years.
[1][2][3] Kell was born into modest circumstances on a farm in Washburn, North Dakota.
His family moved to Wilmington during the Great Depression, where he would graduate from Phineas Banning High School.
[4][5][6] In 1973, he married his wife Jackie, herself a Long Beach city councilor from 1998 to 2006.
[1][7] Kell died from cancer at his home in the El Dorado Park neighborhood of Long Beach.