Frank S. Gaines (1890-1977) was the Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1939 to 1943. Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States.
Gaines was noted for his involvement in the Berkeley-based Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play, a group which addressed the plight of Japanese Americans during World War II. Japanese American internment refers to the forcible relocation and Internment of approximately 110000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans to housing The group's honorary chairman was Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the University of California. Robert Gordon Sproul ( May 22 1891 &ndash Sept 10 1975 was eleventh President of the University of California serving from 1930 to 1958 The University of California ( UC) is a Public university system in the state of California.
Gaines married his wife Louise in 1923; they had three children.
Frank Gaines was born March 6, 1890 in Biggs, California, and died March 3, 1977 in Sacramento. Biggs is a city in Butte County, California, United States. The population was 1793 at the 2000 census He was buried in Biggs.
References
- Berkeley Independent and Gazette, March 5, 1977
- Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata's Art of the Internment By Chiura Obata, Kimi Kodani Hill
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