Emmett C. McGaughey; L.A. City Commissioner, Executive, FBI Agent

Emmett C. McGaughey, 89, former Los Angeles city commissioner and advertising executive. He was appointed to city commissions by four consecutive mayors, beginning with Fletcher Bowron, who named him to the Police Commission in 1952. McGaughey was reappointed by Mayors Norris Poulson and Sam Yorty, and in 1979, Mayor Tom Bradley placed him on the Airport Commission. McGaughey was elected president of both panels. A Minnesota native and graduate of the University of Washington, he worked for General Motors before joining the FBI in 1941. He was a special agent in the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices for the next eight years. He later became an advertising executive at several local firms, serving as chairman of Dailey & Associates and of Dailey International, a holding company. In addition, he headed the committee that secured Getty House in 1975 as the official residence for Los Angeles mayors. McGaughey was also an officer or director of community and civic groups, including the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, the Greater Los Angeles Visitors and Convention Bureau, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and the Southern California Symphony-Hollywood Bowl Assn. He served as national president of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. On Monday at his home in Los Angeles.