Angelo Joseph Rossi
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Angelo Joseph Rossi (1878 – 1948) was a U.S. political figure. He served as mayor of San Francisco between 1931 and 1944. Born in Volcano California January 22, 1878. Occupation Florist. Died April 4, 1948 - Buried Holy Cross Cemetery Colma, Ca. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Rossi was Mayor when both the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge were built, he presided over the building of Treasure Island and the The Golden Gate International Exposition or World's Fair of 1939. He spent years delaying the Raker Act which required San Francisco to sell power from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite to municipalities or municipal water districts, and not to any corporations, a condition of use of the Hetch Hetchy Valley.
He was adamantly anti-communist in a pro-labor town, labelling most labor struggles as the work of agitators. During the July San Francisco general strike of 1934, Rossi organized a committee to thwart the strike and move freight and called on Governor Merriam to send the National Guard to quell the strike, two strikers were killed by bullets, eighty-five hospitalized. In World War 2, he called for "more detailed investigation of Japanese-Americans" than those of Germans or Italians.
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