Henry Perrin Coon

Henry Perrin Coon (September 30, 1822 - December 4, 1884) was the 11th Mayor of San Francisco who served from July 1, 1863 to December 1, 1867.

Henry Perrin Coon was born on September 30, 1822 in Columbia County, New York. He was raised as a Presbyterian during his childhood and then became a physician around the 1840s. Coon then became a California State Court Judge serving from 1856 to 1860. Coon then ran for mayor and won the race and was sworn in on July 1, 1863. Coon during his term as mayor saw the end of the Civil War in 1865. Henry Perrin Coon died of heart failure at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California on December 4, 1884. He is interned at the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.