George J. Whelan

George J. Whelan

Infobox Officeholder
name = George J. Whelan



caption =
order = 8th
office = Mayor of San Francisco
term_start = July 8, 1856
term_end = November 14, 1856
deputy =
predecessor = James Van Ness
successor = Ephraim Willard Burr
birth_date = unknown
birth_place =
death_date = unknown
death_place =
constituency =
party =
spouse =
profession = Lawyer
religion =


footnotes =

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 County Board of Supervisors. His brief term was marred by the vigilance movement, Chinese immigration issues, collecting back taxes from the city's most prominent citizens of the day, and uncooperative elected officials. His last act as mayor was to give a farewell address in which members of the soon-to-be-inaugurated Burr administration refused to attend.

During his term, the San Francisco City and County governments merged into one unit.

He would later return to practicing law.

San Francisco's Least-Documented Mayor

Whelan was the least-documented person ever to hold the office. No photographs or drawings of him are known to exist today. His name does not appear in any San Francisco city directories after 1860. For many years afterwards, many official listings of San Francisco officeholders refused to even acknowledge him as a former mayor. For example, the 1862-1863 volume of San Francisco's Municipal Reports list James Van Ness' successor as E.W. Burr -- with an asterisk after Burr's name. In another example, Oscar Shuck's official listing of all San Francisco city officeholders up to 1894 mentions Whelan as once being president of the County Board of Supervisors -- but not as mayor.

ource

* Heintz, William F., "San Francisco's Mayors: 1850-1880. From the Gold Rush to the Silver Bonanza". Woodside, CA: Gilbert Roberts Publications, 1975. (Library of Congress Card No. 75-17094)

External links

* [http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/sfhistory/mayorphotos.htm San Francisco's Mayors from the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection] NOTE: The photographs of all San Francisco mayors "except" Whelan appear on this site. There is a question mark at the place where Whelan's photo would appear.

* [http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgmay.htm San Francisco's Alcades and Mayors]


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