Mayor of San Francisco: Office Holders



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Gavin Newsom

Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is the current mayor of San Francisco. A Democrat, Newsom was elected mayor in 2003, succeeding Willie Brown and becoming San Francisco's youngest mayor in 100 years. Newsom was re-elected in 2007...

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John W. Geary

John White Geary (December 30, 1819 – February 8, 1873) was an American lawyer, politician, and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was the final alcalde and first mayor of San Francisco, California, and the governor of the Kansas...

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May 4, 1851

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May 1, 1850

Charles James Brenham

Charles James Brenham was mayor of San Francisco in 1851 and from 1852 to 1853. Brenham was born on November 6, 1817 in Frankfort, Kentucky. At an early age, he left home to work on riverboats on the Mississippi. By age twenty, he ran his own...

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Dec 31, 1851

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May 5, 1851

Stephen Randall Harris

Stephen Randall Harris (1802 – 1879) was mayor of San Francisco from January 1 - October 2, 1852. He was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. After his father was killed in the War of 1812, he went to live with relatives. He was then apprenticed to a...

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Nov 9, 1852

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Jan 1, 1852

Charles James Brenham

Charles James Brenham was mayor of San Francisco in 1851 and from 1852 to 1853. Brenham was born on November 6, 1817 in Frankfort, Kentucky. At an early age, he left home to work on riverboats on the Mississippi. By age twenty, he ran his own...

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Oct 2, 1853

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Nov 10, 1852

Cornelius Kingsland Garrison

Cornelius Kingsland Garrison (March 1, 1809 – May 1, 1885) was a shipbuilder, capitalist, and Mayor of San Francisco (1853-1854). He was born in Fort Montgomery, near West Point, New York. During his childhood, he studied architecture and civil...

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Oct 1, 1854

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Oct 3, 1853

Stephen Palfrey Webb

Stephen Palfrey Webb (March 20, 1804 - September 29, 1879) was Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts for two nonconsecutive terms (1842-1845, 1860-1862) and Mayor of San Francisco (1854-1855). After finishing law school, he practiced law in Salem....

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Jun 30, 1855

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Oct 2, 1854

James Van Ness

James Van Ness (1808 Burlington, Vermont - December 28, 1872) was mayor of San Francisco, USA from 1855 to 1856. He was the son of Dutch-American Vermont Governor Cornelius Van Ness and father-in-law of future San Francisco mayor Frank McCoppin....

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Jul 7, 1856

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Jul 1, 1855

George J. Whelan

George J. Whelan (birth and death dates unknown) served as Mayor of San Francisco in from July 8 to November 15, 1856. He had been a lawyer and before serving as mayor. He actually was chosen mayor by justices of the peace who were acting as the...

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Nov 14, 1856

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Jul 8, 1856

Ephraim Willard Burr

Ephraim Willard Burr (1809–1894) was a businessman who served as mayor of San Francisco, California from 1856 to 1859. Burr was born on March 7, 1809 in Rhode Island. As a young man, he worked for a whaling company which sent him west. After losing...

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Oct 2, 1859

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Nov 15, 1856

Henry F. Teschemacher

Henry Frederick Teschemacher (February 16, 1823 - November 26, 1904) served as mayor of San Francisco from October 3, 1859 to June 30, 1863. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and worked for a Boston shipping house around the 1840s. The firm sent...

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Jun 30, 1863

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Oct 3, 1859

Henry Perrin Coon

Henry Perrin Coon (September 30, 1822 – December 4, 1884) was the 11th Mayor of San Francisco who served from July 1, 1863 to December 1, 1867. Henry Perrin Coon was one of the most versatile men ever to hold the office. He worked as a teacher,...

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Dec 1, 1867

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Jul 1, 1863

Frank McCoppin

Frank McCoppin (July 4, 1834, County Longford, Ireland – May 26, 1897, San Francisco, California) was the first Irish-born Mayor of San Francisco. He is also the son-in-law of former mayor James Van Ness. McCoppin was a member of the Royal Irish...

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Dec 4, 1869

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Dec 2, 1867

Thomas Henry Selby

Thomas Henry Selby (May 14, 1820 – June 17, 1875) was the 13th Mayor of San Francisco serving from December 6, 1869 to December 3, 1871. Thomas Henry Selby was born on May 14, 1820 in New York, NY. When he was 29 years old, Selby went to California...

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Dec 3, 1871

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Dec 6, 1869

William Alvord

William Alvord (January 3, 1833 – December 21, 1904) was a San Francisco merchant, banker and political leader. He was the 14th Mayor of San Francisco from 1871 to 1873 and served as president of the Bank of California from 1878 until his death....

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Nov 30, 1873

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Dec 4, 1871

James Otis

James Otis (August 11, 1826 – October 30, 1875) was a politician from San Francisco, California. James Otis was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 11, 1826 Otis then moved to San Francisco for the 1849 California Gold Rush. Otis then became an...

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Oct 30, 1875

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Dec 1, 1873

George Hewston

George Hewston (September 11, 1826 - September 4, 1891) was appointed the 16th Mayor of San Francisco upon the death of James Otis. He was sworn in on November 4, 1875 and served until December 5, 1875. Hewston was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

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Dec 5, 1875

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Nov 4, 1875

Andrew Jackson Bryant

Andrew Jackson Bryant (October 30, 1823 – May 11, 1888) was the 17th Mayor of San Francisco serving from December 6, 1875 to November 30, 1879. Bryant was born in Ettingham, New Hampshire. He was elected mayor of San Francisco in 1875 to replace...

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Nov 30, 1879

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Dec 6, 1875

Isaac Smith Kalloch

Isaac Smith Kalloch (July 10, 1832 – December 9, 1887) was the 18th Mayor of San Francisco serving from December 1, 1879 to December 4, 1881. He was born at Rockland, Maine and was a native of Maine. Kalloch was a Baptist minister and came to...

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Dec 4, 1881

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Dec 1, 1879

Maurice Carey Blake

Maurice Carey Blake (1815-10-20 – 1897-09-26) was Republican and the 19th Mayor of San Francisco, serving from December 5, 1881 to January 7, 1883. Maurice C. Blake was born on October 20, 1815 in Otisville, Maine. He became a lawyer in California...

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Jan 7, 1883

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Dec 5, 1881

Washington Bartlett

Washington Montgomery Bartlett (February 29, 1824 – September 12, 1887) was Mayor of San Francisco, California from 1883–1887 and was California's first and to date only Jewish governor. Bartlett was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1824. He was a life...

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Jan 2, 1887

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Jan 8, 1883

Edward B. Pond

Edward B. Pond (September 7, 1833 – April 22, 1910) was a Democratic politician from California. He was the Mayor of San Francisco from 1887 to 1891. In 1890, he ran for Governor of California under the Democratic ticket, but lost to Henry Markham.

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Jan 7, 1891

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Jan 7, 1887

George Henry Sanderson

George Henry Sanderson (1824-1 February 1893) was a notable politician of the United States Republican Party. Henderson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and traveled to San Francisco during the 1849 Gold Rush in California. He served as the Mayor...

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Jan 3, 1893

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Jan 5, 1891

Levi Richard Ellert

Levi Richard Ellert (October 20, 1857 - July 21, 1901) served as mayor of San Francisco from 1893 to 1895. He was the first San Francisco native to serve in that office. No previous San Francisco mayors had even been born in California. Before...

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Jan 6, 1895

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Jan 4, 1893

Adolph Sutro

Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro (April 29, 1830 – August 8, 1898) was the 24th mayor of San Francisco, California, and second Jewish mayor, serving in that office from 1894 until 1896. He is today perhaps best remembered for the various San Francisco...

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Jan 3, 1897

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Jan 7, 1895

James D. Phelan

James Duval Phelan (April 20, 1861 – August 7, 1930) was an American politician, civic leader and banker. Phelan was born in San Francisco, the son of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy during the California Gold Rush as a trader, merchant and...

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Jan 7, 1902

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Jan 4, 1897

Eugene Schmitz

Eugene Edward Schmitz (August 22, 1864, San Francisco, California - November 20, 1928, San Francisco) was an American politician and mayor of San Francisco, who became notorious for his conviction by a jury on charges of corruption. "Handsome Gene"...

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Jul 8, 1907

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Jan 8, 1902

Charles Boxton

Charles Boxton (April 24, 1860 Shasta County, California - August 29, 1927 San Mateo, California) served as mayor of San Francisco, California from July 9 to July 16, 1907. He attended the San Francisco public schools and then entered a dental...

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Jul 16, 1907

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Jul 9, 1907

Edward Robeson Taylor

Edward Robeson Taylor (September 24, 1838 – July 5, 1923) was the 28th Mayor of San Francisco serving from July 16, 1907 to January 7, 1910. Edward Robeson Taylor was born on September 24, 1838 in Springfield, Illinois, the only son of Henry West...

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Jan 7, 1910

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Jul 16, 1907

P. H. McCarthy

Patrick Henry McCarthy (March 17, 1863 – July 1, 1933), generally known as P.H. McCarthy and sometimes, more jocularly, as "Pinhead", was an influential labor leader in San Francisco and Mayor of the City from 1910 to 1912. Born in County Limerick,...

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Jan 8, 1912

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Jan 8, 1910

James Rolph

James Rolph, Jr. (August 23, 1869 – June 2, 1934) was an American politician and a member of the Republican Party. He was elected to a single term as the 27th Governor of California from January 6, 1931 until his death on June 2, 1934 at the height...

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Jan 6, 1931

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Jan 8, 1912

Angelo Joseph Rossi

Angelo Joseph Rossi (January 22, 1878 – April 4, 1948) was a U.S. political figure who served as mayor of San Francisco. Rossi was born in Volcano, Amador County, California and came to San Francisco in 1889. He was a florist with his company Rossi ...

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Jan 8, 1944

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Jan 7, 1931

Roger Lapham

Roger Dearborn Lapham (6 December 1883 – 16 April 1966) was a shipowner and businessman who was elected Republican mayor of San Francisco from 1944 to 1948. Lapham was born in New York City, the son of Antoinette N. (née Dearborn) and Lewis Henry...

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Jan 8, 1948

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Jan 8, 1944

Elmer Robinson

Elmer Edwin Robinson (October 3, 1894 – June 9, 1982) was the 33rd mayor of San Francisco, California. A Republican, he served as San Francisco's mayor from January 1948 until January 1956. Robinson was born in the Richmond District of San Francisco...

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Jan 8, 1956

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Jan 8, 1948

George Christopher

George Christopher (December 8, 1907 - September 14, 2000) was the 34th Mayor of San Francisco, serving in that office from January 1956 until January 1964. He was, as of 2009, the last Republican to be elected mayor of San Francisco; all San...

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Jan 8, 1964

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Jan 8, 1956

John Shelley

John Francis "Jack" Shelley (September 3, 1905 – September 1, 1974) was a U.S. politician. He served as the mayor of San Francisco, California, from 1964 to 1968, the first Democrat elected to the office in 50 years, and the first in an unbroken...

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Jan 8, 1968

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Jan 8, 1964

Joseph Alioto

Joseph Lawrence Alioto (February 12, 1916 – January 29, 1998) was the mayor of San Francisco, California, from 1968 to 1976. Alioto was born in San Francisco. His father was a Sicilian immigrant who owned and operated several fish processing plants....

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Jan 8, 1976

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Jan 8, 1968

George Moscone

George Richard Moscone (November 24, 1929 – November 27, 1978) (pronounced /mɒsˈkoʊni/) was an American attorney and Democratic politician. He was the mayor of San Francisco, California, US from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978....

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Nov 27, 1978

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Jan 8, 1976

Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born June 22, 1933) is the senior U.S. Senator from California and a member of the Democratic Party. Feinstein was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992, after serving as Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988....

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Jan 8, 1988

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Dec 4, 1978

Arthur Christ Agnos

Arthur (Art) Christ Agnos (born September 1, 1938) is an American politician. He served as the mayor of San Francisco, California from 1988 to 1992, and the Regional Head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 - 2001....

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Jan 7, 1992

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Jan 8, 1988

Frank Jordan

Francis M. “Frank” Jordan (born February 20, 1935) is a U.S. politician, foundation executive and former Chief of Police. He served as the Mayor of San Francisco, California from 1992, succeeding Art Agnos, until January, 1996, after being defeated...

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Jan 8, 1996

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Jan 8, 1992

Willie Brown

Willie Lewis Brown, Jr. (born March 20, 1934) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served over thirty years in the California State Assembly, spending fifteen years as its Speaker, and afterward served as mayor of San Francisco, the...

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Jan 8, 2004

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Jan 8, 1996

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