Frank S. Gaines (1890–1977) was the Mayor of
Berkeley, California from 1939 to 1943.
Gaines was noted for his involvement in the Berkeley-based
Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play
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, a group which addressed the
plight of Japanese Americans during World War II. The group's honorary chairman was
Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the
University of California.
Gaines married his wife Louise in 1923; they had three children.
Frank Gaines was born March 6, 1890, in
Biggs, California, and died March 3, 1977, in
Sacramento. He was buried in Biggs.
Frank Gaines mother was Nettie Stewart Gaines who came to California in 1883. His father was Francis Albert Gaines. His mother wrote a book published in 1910, "The Pathway of Western Literature" which was used in many California Public Schools. Mayor Gaines' oldest son, William Stewart Gaines, could claim to be a British subject when he reached his 18th birthday because he was born in London in 1924. Mayor Gaines brother Clarence was connected with the Redding office of the
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
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. His Uncle Edward C. Stewart was President of the Union Safe Deposit Bank in Stockton, Ca. (3)
References
* ''Berkeley Independent and Gazette'', March 5, 1977
* ''Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata's Art of the Internment'' By Chiura Obata, Kimi Kodani Hill
(3) Stockton Record, March, 1941
External links
Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play records The Bancroft Library
Mayors of Berkeley, California
1890 births
1977 deaths
20th-century American politicians
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