Stephen Palfrey Webb
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Stephen Palfrey Webb (March 20, 1804 - September 29, 1879) was Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts for two nonconsecutive terms (1842-1845, 1860-1862) and Mayor of San Francisco (1854-1855). After finishing law school, he practiced law in Salem. Afterwards, he served in the Massachusetts State Legislature, first as a Representative and then as a Senator. He was then elected Salem's mayor, serving three years in his first term in that office.
He moved in to San Francisco in approximately 1853 where, while serving as that city's mayor, witnessed the violent mobs that ran through the city following the Gold Rush. He would prepare a report about these mobs (known as vigilance committees) in 1874.
After returning to Salem, he would be elected to his final term as that city's mayor, in which he served from 1860 to 1862. He also served as city clerk from 1863 to 1870. He died there in 1879.
[edit] External links
- Stephen Palfrey Webb -- A Sketch of the Causes, Operations and Results of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856(e-book)
- List of mayors of Salem, MA from the Political Graveyard
- San Francisco's Alcades and Mayors
- Works by Stephen Palfrey Webb at Project Gutenberg
| Preceded by: Cornelius Kingsland Garrison |
Mayor of San Francisco October 2, 1854–June 30, 1855 |
Succeeded by: James Van Ness |
