Douglas Gunn

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Douglas Gunn

5th Mayor of San Diego
In office 1889–1891
Preceded by	William J. Hunsaker
Succeeded by	Matthew Sherman
Personal details
Born	August 31, 1841 Wheelersburg, Ohio
Died	November 26, 1891 San Diego, California
Political party	Republican

Douglas Gunn (August 31, 1841–November 26, 1891) was an American scholar, publisher, pioneer and Republican politician from California.

Douglas Gunn was born August 31, 1841 in Wheelersburg, Ohio to Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Carstairs Gunn. He was named after Frederick Douglas. His family moved to Sonora, California in 1852, where his father bought and ran the Sonora Herald. In 1860 his family moved to San Francisco, California where his father edited the Times, then they moved again in 1868 to San Diego. During this time Douglas Gunn learned the newspaper trade, working for the San Diego Union. He lived in New Town San Diego and walked daily to Old Town, where the paper was published. In 1871 he bought the paper, moved it to New Town, and made it a daily paper. Gunn ran the paper until about 1886.

Gunn was mayor of San Diego from 1889 until 1891. He was the first mayor to serve after a new city charter, with a mayoral form of government replacing a Board of Trustees that served from 1852 to 1889. Although a Republican, the party ran two separate tickets in the mayoral election, with Gunn on the "Citizens' Non-Partisan" ticket.

Gunn's civic works include establishing a metropolitan police department for San Diego, having the Santa Fe Railroad build tracks to San Diego, organizing a company of the National Guard, and publishing an illustrated history of the county, Picturesque San Diego (1887).

Gunn died in November 26, 1891 and his father died next year, on October 15, 1892.

Obituary, Daily San Diegan, November 30, 1891 reprinted in a biography in the San Diego Historical Society
Records of a California family; journals and letters of Lewis C. Gunn and Elizabeth Le Breton Gunn (1928), edited by Anna Gunn. Available online from "California As I Saw It", American Memory, Library of Congress exhibit
Elliott, Wallace W. (1883). History of San Bernardino and San Diego Counties, California. . Reprinted 1956 by Riverside Museum Press. Mentioned in connection with Union Press on p. 182.

Political offices
Preceded by William J. Hunsaker	Mayor of San Diego, California 1889—1891	Succeeded by Matthew Sherman

v t e Mayors of San Diego

	Bean Kurtz Tebbetts Hunsaker Gunn Sherman Carlson Reed Capps Frary Sehon Forward, Sr. Conard Wadham O'Neall Capps Wilde Bacon Clark Austin Forward, Jr. Irones Benbough Bard Knox Butler Dail Curran Wilson Cleator, Sr.¹ Hedgecock Struiksma¹ O'Connor Golding Murphy Zucchet¹ Atkins¹ Sanders Filner Gloria¹

¹ Acting or interim mayor

Persondata
Name	Gunn, Douglas
Alternative names
Short description	American mayor
Date of birth	1841
Place of birth	Wheelersburg, Ohio
Date of death	1891
Place of death	San Diego, California

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