Mayor Elmer Robinson
Unfinished History
Elmer Robinson, January 8, 1948—January 8, 1956
Mayor Robinson with part of city budget, 1951
Former judge, "a professional politician of the smoke-filled room school." Rumored to have had connections to city's vice trade. Helped convince Mayor Shelley to withdraw from his re-election bid in 1967.
Mayor Robinson greets the new diesel buses in 1955.
Mayor Robinson releases first fish into Golden Gate Park's Spreckels Lake in 1953.