Washington Bartlett (29 February 1824-12 September 1887) was the Democratic Mayor of San Francisco from 8 January 1883 to 2 January 1887 (succeeding Maurice Carey Blake and preceding Edward B. Pond) and Governor of California from 8 January to 12 September 1887 (succeeding George Stoneman and preceding Robert Waterman).
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Washington Bartlett was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1824, the son of a Sephardic Jewish mother. A lifelong bachelor and a printer by trade, he moved to San Francisco and became a newspaper publisher, county clerk, a State Senator, Mayor of San Francisco from 1883 to 1887, and Governor in 1887, making him the first Jewish governor of any US state. Bartlett died of Bright's disease nine months into his governorship, converting to Congregationalist Protestantism on his deathbed.