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Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. [13]
Earl Warren – Assistant Attorney City of Oakland, District Attorney of Alameda County, Attorney General of California, Governor of California and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice [133] Charles Stetson Wheeler – attorney, Regent of the University of California [134] Lionel J. Wilson – politician, first African-American mayor of Oakland [135]
The history of Oakland, a city in the county of Alameda, California, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement by Horace Carpentier, Edson Adams, and Andrew Moon in the 19th century. The area now known as Oakland had seen human occupation for thousands of years, but significant growth in the settlements that are now incorporated into ...
Julia Morgan School for Girls is an all-girls middle school in Oakland, California, named for Julia Morgan, the building's architect and the first woman to be licensed in California as an architect. The school is housed in a historical and architecturally significant building that she designed. [ 1 ]
Estelle Lawton Lindsey, first woman to execute the duties of Mayor of Los Angeles, California it occurred when Los Angeles Mayor Henry H. Rose was absent from his post in September 1915 and directed Lindsey, a member of the city council, to fill-in as acting mayor. [32] 1916. Ellen French Aldrich, first woman elected mayor of Sawtelle ...
Jeri Howard is a private investigator in Oakland, California in a series by Janet Dawson begun 1990. Robin Hudson is a "third-string correspondent" and amateur investigator in a series of books by Canadian journalist and crime novelist Sparkle Hayter 1994–2002. Irene Huss is a police detective in novels by Swedish writer Helene Tursten 1998 ...
Shattuck Avenue is the main street of Berkeley, forming the spine of that city's downtown, and the site of the Gourmet Ghetto in North Berkeley. The street was named for Francis Kittredge Shattuck, an early landowner and booster who later served as Mayor of Oakland. Shattuck was largely responsible for the original construction of the road as ...