Obituaries
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Born In Seattle, Dies At 65
Lee is originally from Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood and was San Francisco's first Asian American mayor.
SEATTLE, WA - San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, who was born Beacon Hill, died early Tuesday morning of undisclosed causes, according to media reports. Lee, 65, was San Francisco's first Asian American mayor. He had served as mayor since 2011, when the city's Board of Supervisors elected him to serve in the position on an interim basis. He then won the 2011 election and was reelected in 2015.
Born in 2915, Lee was the son of Chinese immigrants and one of six children, according to The New York Times. His mother was a seamstress and his father, a Korean war veteran, died when Lee was 15.
He passed away at around 1 a.m. at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, the Associated Press reported. Details of Lee's death have not been released.
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