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Francisco</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 11, 2011 – December 12, 2017</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gavin_Newsom" title="Gavin Newsom">Gavin Newsom</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/London_Breed" title="London Breed">London Breed</a> (acting)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Government_of_San_Francisco" title="Government of San Francisco">City Administrator of San Francisco</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />June 22, 2005 – January 11, 2011</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">William Lee</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Naomi Kelly</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Edwin Mah Lee</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1952-05-05</span>)</span>May 5, 1952<br /><a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>, Washington, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap">December 12, 2017<span style="display:none">(2017-12-12)</span> (aged 65)</span><br />San Francisco, California, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Cypress_Lawn_Memorial_Park" title="Cypress Lawn Memorial Park">Cypress Lawn Memorial Park</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output 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rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfmayor.org">Official website</a></span></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q241750#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="color: #202122;background-color:#b0c4de">Ed Lee</th></tr><tr style="display:none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">Traditional Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hant" style="font-size: 1rem;">李孟賢</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">Simplified Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hans" style="font-size: 1rem;">李孟贤</span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox-subbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="display:inline-table; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;color: #202122; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Mandarin</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hanyu_Pinyin" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanyu Pinyin">Hanyu Pinyin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Lǐ Mèngxián</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">IPA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn"><span class="IPA" lang="cmn-Latn-fonipa" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">[lì mə̂ŋɕjɛ̌n]</a></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Cantonese" title="Cantonese">Yue: Cantonese</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Cantonese" title="Yale romanization of Cantonese">Yale Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn">Léih Máahngyìhn</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jyutping" title="Jyutping">Jyutping</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn">lei5 maang5 jin4</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Edwin Mah Lee</b> (May 5, 1952 – December 12, 2017) was an American politician and attorney who served as the 43rd <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_San_Francisco" title="Mayor of San Francisco">Mayor of San Francisco</a> from 2011 until his death in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-SFGSA_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFGSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Born in <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a> to <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Americans" title="Chinese Americans">Chinese American</a> parents, Lee was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a>. He took office as San Francisco city administrator in 2005 and was appointed on January 11, 2011, by the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Board_of_Supervisors" title="San Francisco Board of Supervisors">Board of Supervisors</a> to serve out the remaining term of former mayor <a href="/wiki/Gavin_Newsom" title="Gavin Newsom">Gavin Newsom</a> after Newsom resigned to become <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_California" title="Lieutenant Governor of California">Lieutenant Governor of California</a>. On November 8, 2011, he won the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_mayoral_election,_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco mayoral election, 2011">election</a> to serve a full term as mayor. He was <a href="/wiki/2015_San_Francisco_mayoral_election" title="2015 San Francisco mayoral election">reelected in 2015</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-San_Francisco_Mayor_Ed_Lee_dead_at_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-San_Francisco_Mayor_Ed_Lee_dead_at-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Lee&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lee was born in 1952 in the <a href="/wiki/Beacon_Hill,_Seattle" title="Beacon Hill, Seattle">Beacon Hill</a> neighborhood of <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>, Washington.<sup id="cite_ref-Shih_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shih-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dalton_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dalton-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His parents immigrated to the United States from <a href="/wiki/Taishan,_Guangdong" title="Taishan, Guangdong">Taishan</a>, Guangdong, China, in the 1930s.<sup id="cite_ref-Shih_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shih-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee's father, Gok Suey Lee, fought in the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>, worked as a cook, and managed a restaurant in Seattle.<sup id="cite_ref-Shih_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shih-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Name_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Name-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died when Lee was 15.<sup id="cite_ref-Name_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Name-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His mother was a <a href="/wiki/Dressmaker" title="Dressmaker">seamstress</a> and <a href="/wiki/Waiting_staff" title="Waiting staff">waitress</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-campaign_bio_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-campaign_bio-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee had five siblings. He attended <a href="/wiki/Franklin_High_School_(Seattle)" title="Franklin High School (Seattle)">Franklin High School</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> before graduating <i>summa cum laude</i> from <a href="/wiki/Bowdoin_College" title="Bowdoin College">Bowdoin College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a> in 1974, completed a year overseas as a <a href="/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson_Fellowship" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas J. Watson Fellowship">Watson Fellow</a>, and then graduated from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a>, <a href="/wiki/UC_Berkeley_School_of_Law" title="UC Berkeley School of Law">School of Law</a> in 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="San_Francisco_government">San Francisco government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Lee&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: San Francisco government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After Lee completed law school and received his <a href="/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">Juris Doctor</a> degree from <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">UC Berkeley</a> <a href="/wiki/UC_Berkeley_School_of_Law" title="UC Berkeley School of Law">School of Law</a>, he worked as managing attorney for the San Francisco Asian Law Caucus, where he was an advocate for affordable housing and the rights of immigrants and renters.<sup id="cite_ref-campaign_bio_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-campaign_bio-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1989, Mayor <a href="/wiki/Art_Agnos" title="Art Agnos">Art Agnos</a> appointed Lee to be the city's first investigator under the city's whistleblower ordinance. Agnos later appointed him deputy director of Human Relations. In 1991, he was hired as executive director of the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Human_Rights_Commission" title="San Francisco Human Rights Commission">San Francisco Human Rights Commission</a>, serving in that capacity under Mayors Agnos, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Jordan" title="Frank Jordan">Frank Jordan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Willie_Brown_(politician)" title="Willie Brown (politician)">Willie Brown</a>. Brown appointed him director of city purchasing, where, among other responsibilities, he ran the city's first Minority/Women-Owned Business Enterprise program.<sup id="cite_ref-SFGSA_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFGSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000, he was appointed director of public works for the city, and in 2005 was appointed by Mayor Newsom to a five-year term as city administrator, to which he was reappointed in 2010. As city administrator, Lee oversaw the reduction of city government and implemented the city's first ever ten-year capital plan.<sup id="cite_ref-SFGSA_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFGSA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Appointment_as_mayor">Appointment as mayor</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Lee&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Appointment as mayor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2010 a vacancy in the office of mayor was impending when incumbent <a href="/wiki/Gavin_Newsom" title="Gavin Newsom">Gavin Newsom</a> was <a href="/wiki/California_lieutenant_gubernatorial_election,_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="California lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2010">elected</a> as <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_California" title="Lieutenant Governor of California">Lieutenant Governor of California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under the San Francisco City Charter, vacancies in the mayoral office are filled by a majority vote of the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Board_of_Supervisors" title="San Francisco Board of Supervisors">Board of Supervisors</a>, in which each supervisor is barred from voting for themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Speculation about possible appointees and debate on whether or not the old board of supervisors should cast the vote for the new mayor soon followed Newsom's election as lieutenant governor.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> (Four old supervisors were term-limited and four new people were elected in the 2010 election to take their place.)<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p> The board of supervisors nominated four people—former mayor <a href="/wiki/Art_Agnos" title="Art Agnos">Art Agnos</a>, Sheriff <a href="/wiki/Michael_Hennessey" title="Michael Hennessey">Michael Hennessey</a>, former board of supervisors president <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Peskin" title="Aaron Peskin">Aaron Peskin</a>, and Lee. None of them captured the necessary six votes at a meeting of the board on January 4, 2011, but after debate, some supervisors expressed willingness to switch their support to Lee,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the meeting was recessed until January 7. At the January 7 meeting, the old board voted 10–1 to elect Lee as mayor, with outgoing Supervisor <a href="/wiki/Chris_Daly" title="Chris Daly">Chris Daly</a> casting the lone "no" vote.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time, Lee promised not to seek election if appointed, a statement that helped to gain support for his appointment. The board included people who aimed to run in the November 2011 mayoral elections, none of whom wished to give the mayoral position to someone who might be their competitor in those elections, which would give that person the significant political <a href="/wiki/Incumbency_advantage_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Incumbency advantage in the United States">advantages of incumbency</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cote20110808_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cote20110808-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mayor_Ed_Lee_with_Pelosi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Mayor_Ed_Lee_with_Pelosi.jpg/220px-Mayor_Ed_Lee_with_Pelosi.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Mayor_Ed_Lee_with_Pelosi.jpg/330px-Mayor_Ed_Lee_with_Pelosi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Mayor_Ed_Lee_with_Pelosi.jpg/440px-Mayor_Ed_Lee_with_Pelosi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="665" /></a><figcaption>Lee with Democratic U.S. House Leader <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The vote was preliminary and non-binding, as Newsom had delayed his resignation until new members of the board took office. A final vote was taken on January 11 by the new board to confirm Lee, one day after Newsom's resignation. The board voted unanimously for Lee and he took office immediately thereafter.<sup id="cite_ref-Coté_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Coté-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sfgate.com_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sfgate.com-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mayoral_elections">Mayoral elections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Lee&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Mayoral elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2011_election">2011 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Lee&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2011 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2011_San_Francisco_mayoral_election" title="2011 San Francisco mayoral election">2011 San Francisco mayoral election</a></div> <p>Lee's term expired in January 2012, when the winner of the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_mayoral_election,_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco mayoral election, 2011">November 2011 mayoral election</a> would assume office. Lee originally pledged not to run in that election.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, some San Francisco political activists – including <a href="/wiki/Rose_Pak" title="Rose Pak">Rose Pak</a>, consultant for the San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Planning Commission President <a href="/wiki/Christina_Olague" title="Christina Olague">Christina Olague</a>, Assistant District Attorney Victor Hwang, 'Progress for All' chief consultant, Enrique Pearce and <a href="/wiki/Eddy_Zheng" title="Eddy Zheng">Eddy Zheng</a> – started a "Run Ed Run" campaign in June 2011 to encourage him to put his name on the ballot.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By July 28, Lee stated that he had visited his daughters in Washington state and discussed with them the possibility of running, but had still not made up his mind. Senator <a href="/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein" title="Dianne Feinstein">Dianne Feinstein</a>, herself a former appointee mayor who had gone on to win reelection for two terms, publicly supported a Lee candidacy. The <i><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Chronicle" title="San Francisco Chronicle">San Francisco Chronicle</a></i> wrote that unnamed city officials close to Lee told the media that Lee had "nearly finalized his decision" to run.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On August 7, 2011, Lee reneged on his promise to the San Francisco board of supervisors and formally announced his decision to seek election. He stated that the atmosphere of political cooperation during his months in office had inspired him to run.<sup id="cite_ref-Cote20110808_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cote20110808-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee won the November 2011 election, with <a href="/wiki/John_Avalos" title="John Avalos">John Avalos</a> finishing second.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wildermuth,_John_2015_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wildermuth,_John_2015-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2015_reelection">2015 reelection</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Lee&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2015 reelection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2015_San_Francisco_mayoral_election" title="2015 San Francisco mayoral election">2015 San Francisco mayoral election</a></div> <p>In an election where Lee had no challengers with substantial name recognition or experience in politics, he received 56% in the first round of instant-runoff voting. The candidate with the next most votes, local musician Francisco Herrera, received 14%.<sup id="cite_ref-Wildermuth,_John_2015_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wildermuth,_John_2015-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Romney,_Lee_2015_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Romney,_Lee_2015-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mayoralty_(2011–2017)"><span id="Mayoralty_.282011.E2.80.932017.29"></span>Mayoralty (2011–2017)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Lee&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Mayoralty (2011–2017)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mid-Market_revitalization">Mid-Market revitalization</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Lee&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Mid-Market revitalization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lee implemented a revitalization of <a href="/wiki/Mid-Market,_San_Francisco" title="Mid-Market, San Francisco">Mid-Market, San Francisco</a>, providing companies that moved into the area with a temporary exemption from paying San Francisco's 1.5 percent payroll tax.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Twitter, which had threatened to move out of San Francisco into the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Peninsula" title="San Francisco Peninsula">San Francisco Peninsula</a> without the tax break, moved into Mid-Market in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2013, <a href="/wiki/Square,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Square, Inc.">Square, Inc.</a> moved its headquarters to the mid-Market area, followed by <a href="/wiki/Uber" title="Uber">Uber</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dolby_Laboratories" class="mw-redirect" title="Dolby Laboratories">Dolby Laboratories</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014, this exemption saved companies <span style="white-space: nowrap"><a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">US$</a>34 million</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-midmarket_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-midmarket-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The plan drew controversy not only for the tax breaks given to corporations, but for the effects of <a href="/wiki/Gentrification" title="Gentrification">gentrification</a> on the nearby <a href="/wiki/Tenderloin,_San_Francisco" title="Tenderloin, San Francisco">Tenderloin</a> neighborhood.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Housing">Housing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Lee&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Housing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Secretary_Castro_in_California_for_RAD_Event_(22194391215).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Secretary_Castro_in_California_for_RAD_Event_%2822194391215%29.jpg/220px-Secretary_Castro_in_California_for_RAD_Event_%2822194391215%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Secretary_Castro_in_California_for_RAD_Event_%2822194391215%29.jpg/330px-Secretary_Castro_in_California_for_RAD_Event_%2822194391215%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Secretary_Castro_in_California_for_RAD_Event_%2822194391215%29.jpg/440px-Secretary_Castro_in_California_for_RAD_Event_%2822194391215%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="801" /></a><figcaption>Lee with United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development <a href="/wiki/Julian_Castro" title="Julian Castro">Julian Castro</a> in 2015</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2012, Lee proposed the creation of a Housing Trust Fund, which would generate between $20 million and $50 million of funding for affordable and middle class housing per year for thirty years.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014, Lee and <a href="/wiki/David_Chiu_(politician)" title="David Chiu (politician)">David Chiu</a>, the president of the board of supervisors, announced the creation of the Ellis Act Housing Preference Program, which would help people evicted from their homes by landlords using the <a href="/wiki/Ellis_Act" title="Ellis Act">Ellis Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That year, Lee pledged to construct 30,000 new and rehabilitated homes throughout the city by 2020, with half available to low, working and middle income San Franciscans,<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and launched a small site acquisition program to fund the purchase and stabilization of multi-family rental buildings in neighborhoods that are susceptible to evictions and rising rents.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee sponsored a $310 million bond measure to pay for housing for the November 2015 general election, which passed.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2017, Lee approved a $44 million project to build affordable housing for teachers.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Minimum_wage">Minimum wage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Lee&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Minimum wage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In December 2013, Lee called for an increase to San Francisco's minimum wage.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014, the board of supervisors unanimously approved a measure to raise the city's minimum wage for the November 2014 ballot.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2014, Lee announced that the city's minimum wage of $10.74 per hour would be adjusted to $11.05 per hour, effective January 1, 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, Lee co-chaired the minimum wage campaign with <a href="/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Oakland,_California" title="List of mayors of Oakland, California">Oakland Mayor</a> <a href="/wiki/Libby_Schaaf" title="Libby Schaaf">Libby Schaaf</a> and worked with the <a href="/wiki/Service_Employees_International_Union" title="Service Employees International Union">Service Employees International Union</a>-United Healthcare Workers West for a November ballot initiative to gradually increase California's minimum wage to $15 an hour.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The California State Senate and State Assembly approved Senate Bill 3, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Suspension_of_Sheriff_Ross_Mirkarimi">Suspension of Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Lee&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Suspension of Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On January 13, 2012, incumbent <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Sheriff%27s_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco Sheriff's Department">Sheriff</a> <a href="/wiki/Ross_Mirkarimi" title="Ross Mirkarimi">Ross Mirkarimi</a> was charged with <a href="/wiki/Domestic_violence" title="Domestic violence">domestic violence</a> battery, <a href="/wiki/Child_abuse" title="Child abuse">child endangerment</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Witness_tampering" title="Witness tampering">dissuading a witness</a> in connection with a New Year's Eve altercation he had with his wife.<sup id="cite_ref-mercurynews.com_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mercurynews.com-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On March 20, 2012, Mayor Ed Lee gave Sheriff Mirkarimi a 24-hour ultimatum to resign from his post. While jury selection was underway, Mirkarimi entered into a plea agreement with the district attorney and pled guilty to one count of misdemeanor <a href="/wiki/False_imprisonment" title="False imprisonment">false imprisonment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sfgatell_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sfgatell-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Mirkarimi refused to resign, the mayor suspended him and appointed a temporary replacement, <a href="/wiki/Vicki_Hennessy" title="Vicki Hennessy">Vicki Hennessy</a>. City Attorney <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Herrera" title="Dennis Herrera">Dennis Herrera</a> crafted the formal complaint and sent it to the city's Ethics Commission and board of supervisors, who accepted it and then investigated Mirkarimi under misconduct charges as required by the city charter.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On August 16, the commission ruled by 4 to 1 that Mirkarimi committed official misconduct when he falsely imprisoned his wife.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Six of the charges brought by the mayor matched District Attorney <a href="/wiki/George_Gasc%C3%B3n" title="George Gascón">George Gascón</a>'s original criminal charges. Five of those were overruled, including the charge that Mirkarimi dissuaded witnesses and that he abused the power of his office.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On October 9, 2012, four of the eleven San Francisco District Supervisors voted against Lee's removal of Mirkarimi as sheriff. The mayor would have needed the votes of nine board members to remove Mirkarimi.<sup id="cite_ref-sfgatell_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sfgatell-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life_and_death">Personal life and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Lee&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Personal life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lee married his wife, Anita, in 1980. He had two daughters, Tania and Brianna.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was remembered by <a href="/wiki/SFGate" title="SFGate">SFGate</a> as "the city’s first Asian American mayor and the man who presided over San Francisco’s transformation during the recent tech boom."<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At around 10:07 p.m. <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Standard_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Standard Time">PST</a> on December 11, 2017, Lee collapsed while shopping at a <a href="/wiki/Safeway_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Safeway Inc.">Safeway</a> near his home.<sup id="cite_ref-Examiner_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Examiner-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee was conscious and spoke to paramedics on the scene.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was taken to <a href="/wiki/Zuckerberg_San_Francisco_General_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital">Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital</a>, where he died at 1:11 a.m. on December 12, at the age of 65.<sup id="cite_ref-San_Francisco_Mayor_Ed_Lee_dead_at_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-San_Francisco_Mayor_Ed_Lee_dead_at-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EBT_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EBT-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His cause of death was found to be <a href="/wiki/Coronary_artery_disease" title="Coronary artery disease">coronary artery disease</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Hypertensive_heart_disease" title="Hypertensive heart disease">hypertensive heart disease</a> listed as a contributing factor.<sup id="cite_ref-Examiner_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Examiner-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had a history of heart disease in his family.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Lee&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Awards and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lee graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1974 and from <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley,_School_of_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="University of California, Berkeley, School of Law">University of California, Berkeley, School of Law</a>, in 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-sfmayor.org_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sfmayor.org-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2011, he was awarded the inaugural <a href="/wiki/Coro_(non-profit_organization)" title="Coro (non-profit organization)">Coro</a> Community Catalyst award for "his longtime commitment to bringing together varied special interests and agendas to address the greater needs of the community".<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ed_Lee&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span 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