Lee, Ed, 1952-2017

<p><b>RACES</b>
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<li>11/03/2015 San Francisco Mayor Won 55.30% (+40.26%)</li>
<li>11/08/2011 San Francisco Mayor Won 31.15% (+10.07%)</li>
<li>01/04/2011 San Francisco Mayor - Acting Won 83.33% (+66.67%)</li>
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<p><b>SPECULATIVE, DID NOT RUN</b>
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<li>03/02/2017 US Secretary of Housing & Urban Development Lost 0.00% (-58.59%)</li>
<li>02/07/2017 US Secretary of Education Lost 0.00% (-50.50%)</li>
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<p>Edwin Mah Lee (Chinese: 李孟賢; May 5, 1952 – December 12, 2017) was an American politician and attorney who served as the 43rd Mayor of San Francisco from 2011 until his death in 2017, he was the first Asian American to hold the office.</p>

<p>Born in Seattle to Chinese-American parents, Lee was a member of the Democratic Party. He took office as San Francisco city administrator in 2005 and was appointed on January 11, 2011, by the Board of Supervisors to serve out the remaining term of former mayor Gavin Newsom after Newsom resigned to become Lieutenant Governor of California. On November 8, 2011, he won the election to serve a full term as mayor. He was reelected in 2015 and served until his death on December 12, 2017.</p>

<p>Lee was born in 1952 in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. His parents immigrated to the United States from Taishan, Guangdong Province, China, in the 1930s. Lee's father, Gok Suey Lee, fought in the Korean War, worked as a cook, and managed a restaurant in Seattle. He died when Lee was 15. His mother was a seamstress and waitress. Lee had five siblings. He attended Franklin High School, before graduating summa cum laude from Bowdoin College in Maine in 1974, completed a year overseas as a Watson Fellow, and then graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 1978.</p>