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Willie Brown is the first black mayor of San Francisco. London Breed is the first black female mayor. Breed was a District 5 supervisor and president of the Board of Supervisors, who won a special election following the death of Mayor Ed Lee on December 12, 2017. Breed served out the remainder of Lee's uncompleted term (until January 8, 2020 ...
Willie Lewis Brown Jr. (born March 20, 1934) is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as mayor of San Francisco from 1996 to 2004 as the first African American to hold the office.
Moving west, Geary was appointed postmaster of San Francisco by President James K. Polk on January 22, 1849, and on January 8 1850, he was elected [4] the city's alcalde, before California became a state, and then the first mayor of the city. Aged thirty at the time of his appointment, he holds the record as the youngest mayor in San Francisco ...
He was remembered by SFGate as "the city’s first Asian American mayor and the man who presided over San Francisco’s transformation during the recent tech boom." [46] At around 10:07 p.m. PST on December 11, 2017, Lee collapsed while shopping at a Safeway near his home. [47] Lee was conscious and spoke to paramedics on the scene. [48]
He was elected Mayor of San Francisco and served from 1897 until 1902, in three 2-year terms. He pushed for the reform City Charter of 1898 in San Francisco. He served as the first president of the League of California Cities, which was created in 1898. [4] He was the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in 1900, but lost to Republican Thomas R ...
This is a list of pre-statehood alcaldes and mayors of San Francisco, from 1779 to 1850, during the Spanish, Mexican, and early American periods, prior to California's admission to statehood. Spanish era
Francisco de Haro (1792 – November 28, 1849) was a Californio politician, soldier, and ranchero, who served as the 1st and 5th Alcalde of San Francisco (initially known as Yerba Buena). He notably commissioned the first land survey of San Francisco to Jean Jacques Vioget in 1839.
The first faculty strike at a college or university in the United States was at San Francisco State College, now San Francisco State University, during 1968–1969; Alioto gave the law enforcement resources of the City and County of San Francisco to the university president, S.I. Hayakawa. Joseph L. Alioto Recreation Center