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The Gerald Desmond Bridge was named after a former Long Beach city attorney and city councilman who helped get funding to build the 5,134-foot-long bridge that connected Long Beach and Terminal Island. Desmond died of kidney cancer at the age of 48, four years before the bridge named after him was opened.