Members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is the legislative body of San Francisco, California, United States. The body consists of eleven members elected from single-member districts through ranked choice voting.

From 1977 to 1979, and starting again in 2000, supervisors were elected from eleven single-member districts. Prior to 1977 and from 1980 to 1998, members were elected at-large, all running on one ballot, with the top vote-getters winning office. In 1980, elections shifted from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years, and because of the shift from district to at-large elections, all seats were up for election, with some members winning four-year terms and some winning two-year terms. Similar cases of supervisors elected to truncated terms happened in 1977 and 2000, when elections shifted to district elections.

Several members were initially appointed by the mayor. San Francisco's city charter gives the mayor the power to fill any vacancies and to suspend members in limited circumstances; the latter case has happened only once, when Mayor Gavin Newsom suspended Ed Jew due to allegations of lying about his residency and extortion. A few members were elected to the board, but appointed to their seat by the mayor during the weeks between the election and the beginning of their term. This has generally been done when supervisors were elected to the state legislature, since the terms of state legislators begin earlier than those of supervisors. The most recent example occurred in 2008, when David Campos was elected to the District 9 seat held by Tom Ammiano. In the same election, Ammiano was elected to the California State Assembly and resigned his seat a month early to take his new office. Mayor Gavin Newsom appointed Campos to the seat on December 4, 2008, a month before he would otherwise have taken office.

Board presidents

The president of the Board of Supervisors presides over all board meetings and appoints members to board committees, among other duties. Board presidents are elected by their colleagues at the beginning of every odd-numbered year, or when a vacancy arises in the office. From 1983 to 2001, the city charter specified that the president would be the highest vote-getter in the previous election, taking the power of electing the board president away from the supervisors themselves, except in the case of a vacancy in the post.

Board members No official list of supervisors in office prior to 1906 exists as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed all Board of Supervisors records. However, the names of San Francisco supervisors are recorded in many documents and newspapers from the time.

San Francisco Common Council The San Francisco Common Council was the predecessor of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The Common Council was made up of the Board of Aldermen and the Board of Assistant Aldermen, each composed of one member elected from each of the city's eight wards. The first elections to these posts took place on May 1, 1850 (the same day as the vote on the city charter), and the Common Council took office on May 6, 1850. The Common Council had authority only within the city limits, which stretched west to Divisadero and Castro streets and south to 20th Street.

The seventh and last Common Council served until July 1856, when under the Consolidation Act that unified city and county government in San Francisco, the Common Council was replaced by the first Board of Supervisors.

Four-member board (July–November 1856) The first Board of Supervisors served only from July 8 to November 15, 1856, and consisted of one justice of the peace for each of the city's four districts. These four men chose George J. Whelan as the city's mayor and president of the board.

Year President District 1 2 3 4 July–November 1856 George J. Whelan Lawrence Ryan E.W. Smith C.M. Chamberlain David B. Castree

12 members elected by district (1856–1899) Supervisors from the 19th century are listed in surviving copies of municipal reports, contemporary newspapers, and similar sources.

Year Ward 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 November 1856 – 1857 Charles Wilson W.A. Darling W.K. Van Alen M.R. Roberts Samuel Merritt Charles W. Bond H.A. George N.C. Lane W.L. Palmer R.G. Sneath J.J. Denny S.S. Tilton 1858 L.B. Benchley Thomas Tennent 1859 Charles S. Biden H.S. Gates Thomas Young J.S. Paxson W. McKibbin J.C. Corbett 1860 Joseph Britton F.W. Brooks J.S. Davies W.B. Johnson James Otis A.G. Randall John C. Ayres John Lynch 1861 H. De La Montaya D. Gaven H.L. Dodge W.C. Hinckley Eugene Crowell Frank McCoppin 1862 Myles D. Sweeney H.L. King Gerritt W. Bell John C. Merrill J.H. Redington James W. Cudworth 1863 A.H. Titcomb Giles H. Gray 1864 John Fay E.C. Kennedy A.S. Baldwin E.N. Torrey A.H. Cummings Michael Cody 1865 Isaac Rowell Monroe Ashbury Charles Clayton A.J. Shrader 1866 R.P. Clement William S. Phelps Jacob Schreiber James H. Reynolds Charles H. Stanyan 1867 P.H. Daly W.B. Farman F.G.E. Tittell 1868 Henry Winkle John Harrold Edward Flaherty R. Beverly Cole D.D. Shattuck J.B.E. Cavallier Edward Nunan P.H. Canavan 1869 Richard Ring 1870 Timothy McCarthy Alexander Badlam Charles R. Story James Adams M.J. Kelly 1871 Stewart Menzies James J. Kenney Robert Goodwin A.B. Forbes Edward Commins 1872 H.F. Swain Henry L. King James Barrett Samuel Penfield Taylor 1873 1874 William C. Pease A.M. Ebbets John R. Sims James H. Deering James B. Roberts A.L. Wangenheim A.W. Scott George Hewston M. Lynch D.A. Macdonald 1875 Abram Block 1876 August Drucker C.B. Edwards Thomas Bryan John H. Wise John P. Shine Frederick W. Eaton George W. Hayes Fleet F. Strother Thomas Boyce John C. Roberts Frederick A. Gibbs 1877 1878 John Foley Martin Mangels Horace L. Hill Edwin Danforth J. Henley Smith James O. Rountree John W. Farren Thomas S. Acheson A.W. Scott Robert Haight Henry Brickwedel 1879 Thomas A. Talbert 1880 Antone Schottler John Mason J.M. Litchfield Samuel Drake James D. Whitney Frank Eastman Hugh Fraser Charles L. Taylor Micah Doane Charles A. Bayly Erastus N. Torrey James B. Stetson 1881 1882 William H. Bodfish John C. McKew John Shirley John H. Carmany Henry Molineaux George Torrens George B. Bradford Charles A. Fisher Oliver Merrill Henry B. Russ Nathan C. Parrish John F. Kennedy 1883 John T. Sullivan John J. Reichenbach Charles H. Burton J. Henley Smith Edward B. Pond John D. Griffin Fleet F. Strother John B. Lewis Herman Ranken Jefferson G. James Thomas Ashworth 1884 1885 Justin Gates Robert Roy John E. Kunkler John E. Abbott Willard B. Farwell James Williamson David L. Farnsworth Albert Heyer James Gilleran Daniel McMillan Samuel Valleau 1886 1887 Hugh Curran James M. McDonald Colin M. Boyd Joseph Pescia Charles S. Bush Aaron M. Burns William Hawkins Albert F. Knorp William P. Lambert Herman Joost Sargent S. Morton 1888 1889 Henry Bingham Levi R. Ellert Peter Wheelan Diedrich Becker Henry Pilster Vincent Kingwell David Barry Patrick Noble 1890 Selden S. Wright 1891 Henry Evans David B. Jackson James W. Burling John. B. Curtis Washington Ayer George A. Carnes Patrick J. Coffee Albert Heyer Denis D. Hunt Charles W. Taber William Wilkinson 1892 Joseph A. Artigues 1893 Michael Goodwin Daniel Rogers William Montgomery James I. Stanton C.W. Nevin Patrick J. Kennedy Sands W. Forman Christian Reis James Ryan Robert Day Patrick F. Dundon William M. Hinton Jefferson G. James James Denman 1894 1895 Joseph King Peter A. Scully Charles E. Benjamin Alphonse Hirsch Joseph I. Dimond Edward C. Hughes Christopher Dunker Charles L. Taylor Alfred W. Morgenstern Adolph B. Spreckels John K.C. Hobbs Edward L. Wagner 1896 1897 Lawrence Devany Thomas H. Haskins P.M. Delany John H. Sheehan Washington Dodge John Lackmann T.A. Rottanzi Thomas Morton James E. Britt Edward J. Smith Charles A. Clinton Thomas W. Rivers 1898 1899 Edward Holland Edward C. Kalben Howard Black Edward L. Perrault William H. Phelps John Lackmann Lewis F. Byington George W. Collins Albert Heyer Jeremiah Deasy Arthur Attridge Edward H. Algeltinger Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Ward

Charles W. Bond resigned April 7, 1858. Thomas Tennett took his seat May 21, 1858. A.G. Randall resigned February 13, 1860. John C. Ayres took his seat May 7, 1860. John Lynch resigned October 7, 1861. James W. Cudworth took his seat November 4, 1861. James Otis resigned November 25, 1861, "as he is under the necessity of absenting himself from the State for the next few months". J.H. Redington took his seat December 30, 1861.

18 members elected at-large, serving two-year terms (1900–1911) Article II, Chapter I, Section 2 of the revised charter, ratified by voters on May 26, 1898, specified that "[t]he Board of Supervisors shall consist of eighteen members all of whom shall hold office for two years and be elected from the City and County at large." Former mayors of the city were allowed non-voting seats on the board. In 1912, supervisors' terms were extended to four years.

Year 1900 James P. Booth Charles Boxton Henry U. Branden- stein A. B. Maguire A. Comte, Jr. John Connor Peter J. Curtis A. Arnold D'Ancona L.J. Dwyer M.J. Fontana Richard M. Hotaling Thomas Jennings William N. McCarthy Charles Wesley Reed George R. Sanderson John E.A. Helms Joseph S. Tobin Victor D. Duboce 1901 Samuel Braunhart Henry J. Stafford Horace Wilson 1902 Robert J. Loughery George Alpers Fred N. Bent Frederick Eggers John A. Lynch George B. McClellan Henry Payot William J. Wynn 1903 Edward I. Walsh 1904 Thomas F. Finn Oscar Hocks Theodore Lunstedt L.A. Rea Edward R. Rock William W. Sanderson 1905 James L. Gallagher 1906 Michael W. Coffey Daniel G. Coleman Sam Davis John J. Furey Cornelius J. Harrigan James F. Kelly Thomas F. Lonergan Max Mamlock Patrick M. McGushin Fred P. Nicholas Andrew M. Wilson George F. Duffey Jennings J. Phillips Edward I. Walsh Jan–July 1907 J.J. O'Neill Olaf A. Tveitmoe Aug–Dec 1907 Henry U. Brandenstein James P. Booth Gustave Brenner George L. Center A. Arnold D'Ancona Thomas Magee Bernard Faymonville Eusebius Joseph Molera Charles Albert Murdock Daniel C. Murphy A. Comte, Jr. Henry Payot Lippmann Sachs Loring P. Rixford Matt Sullivan William G. Stafford 1908 Paul Bancroft William Broderick A.H. Giannini Oscar Hocks Thomas Jennings James A. Johnston M. Hall McAllister Ralph McLeran A. Arnold D'Ancona Allan Pollok George A. Connolly 1909 W. W. Sanderson W.E. Balcom 1910 Edward L. Cutten Cornelius Deasy Matt Harris, Sr. James Emmet Hayden Timothy B. Healy John L. Herget John A. Kelly John R. Knowles Robert J. Loughery John P. McLaughlin Timothy P. Minehan Charles A. Nelson Thomas P. O'Dowd William C. Pugh John O. Walsh 1911 John I. Nolan Year Board elections moved to staggered four-year terms from 1912

A.B. Maguire resigned some time before June 27, 1900, and died shortly afterwards. Samuel Braunhart was appointed June 27, 1900 to replace A.B Maguire. John E.A. Helms died some time before July 26, 1900, while returning from a trip to investigate the possibility of using Lake Tahoe as a water supply for the city. Colonel Victor Donglain Duboce, a veteran of the Spanish–American War died some time before August 15, 1900. Henry J. Stafford was appointed November 1, 1900 to replace John E.A. Helms. Horace Wilson was appointed November 1, 1900 to replace Victor D. Duboce. L.J. Dwyer died some time before February 8, 1902. Robert J. Loughery was appointed February 8, 1902 to replace L.J. Dwyer. William J. Wynn resigned after his election as U.S. Representative for California's 5th congressional district for the term beginning March 4, 1903. Edward I. Walsh was appointed March 4, 1903 to replace W.J. Wynn. Thomas F. Finn resigned January 31, 1905.