Robert Henning

[1] He works as an unemployment insurance adjudication management supervisor for the state Employment Development Department branch office in Compton.

[1] Although Lynwood had been historically white, an influx of Blacks and later Hispanics had shifted its racial mix to majority minority.

On December 2, 1986, the council deadlocked 2-2 on appointing his successor, the result of the absence of councilmember John Byork who was absent due to pneumonia.

[6] In January 1991, he was named mayor for another term by a 3-2 vote (Henning, Evelyn Wells, and new council member Armando Rea voting for the nomination while Paul Richards and Louis Heine dissented); Rea was named as mayor pro tem.

[7] In the November 5, 1991 election, Henning was defeated by newcomer Louis Byrd for a seat on the City Council and resigned the mayorship prematurely in mid-November (his term was officially set to expire on December 3, 1991).