San Francisco-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Phelan, James Duval 1874 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

JAMES DUVAL PHELAN, Democrat, native of San Francisco, graduated from St.
Ignatius University with degree of A. B.; honorary degree Ph. D. Santa Clara
University; studied law University of California ; was vice-president of
California World's Columbian Commission, 1893; elected three times mayor of San
Francisco, 1897-1902; after San Francisco disaster was president of relief and
Red Cross fund; served as regent of the University of California; member of
library trustees and park commission; chairman charter association which gave
new charter to San Francisco; president adornment association which procured the
Burnham plans for that city; member of the Society of California Pioneers;
president of the hall association of the Native Sons of the Golden West;
president of the Mutual Savings Bank, and director in the First National Bank
and First Federal Trust Co. of San Francisco. He received complimentary vote for
United States Senator in the California Legislature in 1900; was commissioned by
appointment of State Department to Europe, 1913, on behalf of the United States
Government to support the invitation of the President to foreign countries to
participate in the Panama-Pacific Exposition; in December, 1914, was appointed
by State Department, under special authority from the President, to investigate
the fitness of the American minister to the Dominican Republic; was nominated in
Democratic primaries August, 1914, as party candidate for the United States
Senate by popular election ; elected November of the same year, receiving a
plurality of 25,000 votes, carrying 39 counties to his opponents' 19. His term
of service will expire March 3, 1921. Address, 2249 R Street, Washington, D. C.;
Phelan Building, or residence, 2150 Washington Street, San Francisco; country
residence, Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, Santa Clara County, Cal.

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THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918


Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco


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