
Joseph Lawrence Alioto (12 February 1916-29 January 1998) was the Democratic Mayor of San Francisco from 8 January 1968 to 8 January 1976, succeeding John F. Shelley and preceding George Moscone.
Biography[]
Joseph Alioto was born in San Francisco, California in 1916, the son of a Sicilian immigrant father. He practiced law before working for the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department, and he represented Walt Disney and Samuel Goldwyn after World War II, becoming a millionaire. He served on the Board of Education from 1948 to 1954 and as Mayor from 1968 to 1976, and he nominated Hubert Humphrey for President in 1968, supported the city's development, faced rising crime from the Zodiac Killer, the Symbionese Liberation Army, and the Black Power "Zebra Murders", and endured a police and firefighters' strike in 1975. He died in 1998.