Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alan G. Sieroty (born December 13, 1930) is a former California State Senator and California State Assemblyman. Born in Los Angeles, California, Sieroty received his A.B. in Economics in 1952 from Stanford University, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He then received his LL.B. from USC Gould School of Law in 1956. From 1961 to 1965, he was Administrative Assistant and Executive Secretary to Lieutenant Governor Glenn M. Anderson. From 1965 to 1966, Sieroty was Deputy Director of the Chile-California Program. A Democrat, Sieroty was a California State Assemblyman from 1967 until 1977, when he resigned just two months into his sixth term to become a California State Senator. He was re-elected in 1978 but did not seek re-election in 1982. Sieroty was the author of the bill which made the California Sabretooth Tiger (Smilodon californicus)the official state fossil. His fellow politicians in the Legislature named a Marin County beach for him: Alan Sieroty Beach.