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Governor James Rolph and the Great Depression in California

Governor James Rolph and the Great Depression in California

Worthen, James

Paperback

Biographies General20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0786425741
ISBN13: 9780786425747
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jul 25 2006
Pages: 235
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.08
Language: English

In 1911, when businessman James Rolph first ran for mayor of San Francisco, he promised, I will be mayor of the whole city, and not the mayor for any particular section. This statement seemed to characterize Rolph's political career. After serving an unprecedented five terms as mayor, he went on to win California's 1930 gubernatorial election. Rolph, however, had severely underestimated the challenges he would be up against as a Depression-era governor. A genuine love of people and desire to help had gotten him as far as the governor's office but could do little to help him solve the new problems he found. Lack of a firm agenda coupled with an unrealistic (or perhaps idealistic) governing style left him at odds with the legislature and found his chief lieutenants forming into warring cliques. Ultimately, Rolph--in spite of good intentions and a love of civil service--was unable to translate his mayoral triumph, with all its charm and style, into a gubernatorial success.

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