Andrew Jackson Bryant

Infobox Officeholder
name = Andrew Jackson Bryant

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caption =
order = 17^th
office = Mayor of San Francisco
term_start = December 6, 1875
term_end = November 30, 1879
deputy =
predecessor = George Hewston
successor = Isaac Smith Kalloch
birth_date = birth date|1823|10|30|mf=y
birth_place = Ettingham, New Hampshire
death_date = death date and age|1888|5|11|1823|10|30|mf=y
death_place = San Francisco, California
constituency =
party = Populist
spouse =
profession =
religion =


footnotes =

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 James Otis. On May 11, 1888, Bryant, retired, was crossing the San Francisco Bay on a ferry. Bryant committed suicide by falling off a ferry into San Francisco Bay, and drowned.

A headline in the May 12, 1888 New York Times read; "AN EX-MAYOR'S SUICIDE.; THE UNHAPPY END OF ONE OF SAN FRANCISCO'S OLD CITIZENS. SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.--A.J. Bryant, ex-Mayor of San Francisco, committed suicide this morning by jumping from the ferry steamer Encinal just after the boat had started on the 9:15 trip to Oakland. Mr. Bryant was very nervous and trembling when he bought his ticket, and the gate-keeper appears to be the last man who talked with him." [ [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00E13FE355C10738DDDAB0994DD405B8884F0D3 An Ex-Mayor'S Suicide.; The Unhappy End Of One Of San Francisco'S Old ... - Article Preview - The New York Times ] ]