George Gascón

Politician

1954 –

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Who is George Gascón?

George Gascón is the District Attorney of San Francisco. Mayor Gavin Newsom appointed him to that post on January 9, 2011, to succeed Kamala Harris, who had been elected California Attorney General in November 2010. In November 2011, George Gascón was elected as District Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco after winning more than 62% of the vote in the third round of San Francisco's Instant-runoff voting poll. He was sworn in on January 5, 2012 as San Francisco's twelfth elected and first Latino District Attorney.

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Born
1954
Havana
Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • California State University, Long Beach
  • Western State University College of Law
Lived in
  • San Francisco

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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