George Parkman Cronk (January 19, 1904 – June 15, 1996) was an insurance man who was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1945 to 1952.

[1] Cronk was elected to the Los Angeles City Council District 5 seat in 1945, succeeding Ira J. McDonald, who had quit the post to run unsuccessfully for mayor.

Cronk was endorsed by the conservative American Federation of Labor in that race, whereas the rival and more liberal Congress of Industrial Organizations went for Robert J.

The council unanimously adopted a resolution he offered asking "all authorities" to curb "exuberant young flyers" who had been piloting their airplanes too low over residential areas.

It was Cronk, "an enemy of public housing since its inception,"[12] who introduced a controversial motion that eventually ended a $110 million public-housing program in the city.

[14] The council sent Cronk to Sacramento to lobby the State Assembly in support of bills that would "limit autocratic powers of public housing authorities.