Joseph Alioto: Difference between revisions

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Joseph L. Alioto

| order = 36th

| office = Mayor of San Francisco

| death_place = San Francisco, California, U.S.

| party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]

| birth_name = Joseph Lawrence Alioto

| children = 8 (including [[Angela Alioto]])

 

===Early government career===

 

==Mayoralty==

Alioto was also indicted by a federal [[grand jury]] in March 1971 on bribery charges because of the means by which the fees were awarded. When the case went to court, Alioto was cleared of the federal charges by a judge who ordered acquittal because he was convinced a jury would not convict when it considered the evidence.<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/157052168 "U.S. Judge Orders Acquittal for Alioto, 2 Others," Associated Press in the ''Los Angeles Times,'' June 20, 1972, page A-1] <code><nowiki>Library card required</nowiki></code></ref>

 

 

 

During the Zebra Murders in 1974, Alioto's wife, Angelina Alioto, vanished, reappearing after 18 days to claim that she had taken off to "punish" her husband for neglect. During the time Angelina was missing, she toured the [[Spanish missions of California|missions of California]] as part of a religious pilgrimage. Angelina filed divorce proceedings against him in 1975. He remarried in 1978.

 

 

In July 1975 the [[LAPD]] unexpectedly announced a pay raise. For years the [[San Francisco Police Department]] had been the top paid in the state, with the [[San Francisco Fire Department]] guaranteed the same pay.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Crouch|first1=Winson W.|title=Organized Civil Servants|url=https://archive.org/details/organizedcivilse0000crou|url-access=registration|date=1978|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|page=[https://archive.org/details/organizedcivilse0000crou/page/288 288]|isbn=9780520036260}}</ref> The SF police promptly demanded they be paid more than the LAPD.<ref name="scholarship.law.berkeley.edu">[http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2411&context=californialawreview Comment, ''Emergency Mayoral Power: An Exercise in Charter Interpretation'', 65 Cal. L. Rev. 686.]</ref> The Board of Supervisors, however, determined that the pay raise would drive the city into deficit, and unanimously approved a raise only half of what the police requested.<ref name="University of California Press">{{cite book|last1=Crouch|first1=Winston W.|title=Organized Civil Servants: Public Employer-Employee Relations in California|date=1978|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|page=288|url=http://www.ucpress.edu/op.php?isbn=9780520036260|access-date=19 April 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150615153835/http://www.ucpress.edu/op.php?isbn=9780520036260|archive-date=June 15, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

When enraged citizens confronted police at the picket lines the police arrested them.<ref name="scholarship.law.berkeley.edu"/> Federal authorities were forced to intervene after striking firefighters attempted to seize [[San Francisco International Airport]].<ref>[http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2411&context=californialawreview Comment, ''Emergency Mayoral Power: An Exercise in Charter Interpretation'', 65 Cal. L. Rev. 686] citing N.Y. Times, Aug. 21, 1975, at 28, col 4.</ref> Heavy drinking on the picket line became common and after striking police officers started shooting out streetlights the [[ACLU]] obtained a court order prohibiting strikers from carrying their service revolvers. Again, the police ignored the court order.<ref name="scholarship.law.berkeley.edu"/>

 

 

 

In 1974 and 1975, Alioto served as president of the [[United States Conference of Mayors]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usmayors.org/the-conference/leadership/ |title=Leadership |date=November 23, 2016 |access-date=July 24, 2020 |publisher=The United States Conference of Mayors}}</ref>

 

==Alioto family==

 

Members of Alioto's family are still involved in San Francisco politics. His second wife, [[Kathleen Sullivan Alioto]], was a member of the Boston School committee and a candidate for a [[United States Senate]] seat in Massachusetts in the [[United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1978|1978]] primary.<ref>{{cite news|title=Senate Candidate Alioto Pregnant|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RQtSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_jQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6411,5200450|access-date=June 11, 2011|agency=Associated Press|date=July 25, 1978}}</ref> Sullivan and Alioto married in 1978 and remained together until his death in 1998.<ref name=AP>{{cite news|title=Senate Candidate Alioto Pregnant|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RQtSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_jQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6411,5200450|access-date=11 June 2011|newspaper=Associated Press|date=July 25, 1978}}</ref> Because they were both divorced, the wedding was performed by [[excommunicate]]d [[Catholic priest]] and activist [[Joseph O'Rourke (activist)|Joseph O'Rourke]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Alioto Weds Kathleen Sullivan But Ex-Wife Claims It's Invalid - Priest Excommunicated|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nA5PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aQIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7002,1188892&dq|access-date=11 June 2011|newspaper=The Blade (Toledo)|date=February 28, 1978}}</ref>

 

 

==References==

[[Category:Burials at Holy Cross Cemetery (Colma, California)]]

[[Category:Mayors of San Francisco]]

[[Category:Saint Mary's College of California alumni]]

[[Category:Columbus School of Law alumni]]

[[Category:20th-century American lawyers]]

[[Category:Presidents of the United States Conference of Mayors]]

[[Category:Burials at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park]]