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| San Francisco Examiner, 06-April-1948 |
75 years ago today, on 05-April-1948, Angelo J Rossi, florist and former mayor of San Francisco, died. He was appointed mayor in 1931, when Sunny Jim Rolph resigned to serve as governor. Italian-Americans like my mother's family were proud of Rossi and Fiorello La Guardia, the mayor of New York City. Rossi lost to Roger Lapham in 1943.
Even though he was a Republican, he supported the New Deal.
Angelo J Rossi was born in Volcano, in the Gold Country. He came to San Francisco in 1890 and eventually built a thriving flower business. My mother remembers him always having a flower in his lapel, as we see in the image.
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