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1905-01-01 |
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| Name | James D. Phelan |
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San Francisco, California , United States |
| Email | None |
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April 20, 1861
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| Died | August 07, 1930
(69 years)
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Modifed | BrentinCO
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| Info | James Duval Phelan
born in San Francisco, Calif., April 20, 1861; graduated from St. Ignatius University, San Francisco, in 1881; studied law at the University of California at Berkeley; engaged in banking; mayor of San Francisco 1897-1902; president of Relief and Red Cross Funds after the San Francisco earthquake disaster 1906; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1915, to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920; chairman, Committee on Railroads (Sixty-fourth Congress), Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Sixty-fifth Congress); traveled extensively in 1921 and 1922; chairman of the board of directors of the United Bank & Trust Co. at San Francisco; art collector; died at his country estate Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, Santa Clara County, Calif., August 7, 1930; interment in the family mausoleum in Holy Cross Cemetery, San Mateo County, near San Francisco, Calif.
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