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Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County,California,United States. The city was incorporated on August 7,1905,and has a city council. Located in the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay region,Richmond borders San Pablo,Albany,El Cerrito and Pinole in addition to the unincorporated communities of North Richmond,Hasford Heights,Kensington,El Sobrante,Bayview-Montalvin Manor,Tara Hills,and East Richmond Heights,and for a short distance San Francisco on Red Rock Island in the San Francisco Bay.
The Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) is a community/political group in Richmond,western Contra Costa County,California,United States. Its mission is to unite the left regardless of political party and was founded by Gayle McLaughlin and Marilyn Langlois.
Gayle McLaughlin is an American politician from Richmond,California. She was first elected to the Richmond City Council in 2004 when she was a member of the Green Party of California. She won two consecutive four-year terms as the city's mayor in 2006 and 2010. After reaching the mayoral term limit,she was reelected to the City Council in 2014. In June 2017,she announced her candidacy for lieutenant governor of California in the 2018 election.
Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park is a United States national historical park located in Richmond,California,near San Francisco. The park preserves and interprets the legacy of the United States home front during World War II,including the Kaiser Richmond Shipyards,the Victory ship SS Red Oak Victory,a tank factory,housing developments and other facilities built to support America's entry into World War II. In particular,the role of women and African-Americans in war industries is explored and honored.
SS Red Oak Victory is a U.S. Victory ship of the Boulder Victory-class cargo ship used in the Second World War. She was preserved to serve as a museum ship in Richmond,California,and is managed by the Richmond Library of History and located near the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park. She was one of 534 Victories built during World War II,but one of only a few of these ships to be transferred from the Merchant Marine to the United States Navy. She was named after Red Oak,Iowa,which suffered disproportionate casualties in early World War II battles.. The ship was active during World War II,the Korean War,and the Vietnam War.
Point Richmond,also sometimes referred to locally as The Point,is a neighborhood in Richmond,California,United States,near the eastern end of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge,between Interstate 580 and the San Francisco Bay.
Irma Louise Anderson was an American politician who was the elected mayor of the city of Richmond,California,serving between 2001 and 2006. She ran for re-election as the incumbent Democrat in the 2006 mayoral race and lost to Green Party challenger councilperson Gayle McLaughlin by 192 votes.
Jim Rogers is an American politician. He served on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors in the 1990s,and was a city council member for the city of Richmond,California for three terms. He was first elected to the city council in 2002,and his final term expired in January 2015. He is a Democrat,considered a moderate,and has also been referred to as a progressive. He was called the San Francisco Bay Area's most famous lawyer because of television ads in which he dubbed himself as "The People's Lawyer".
Atchison Village is a community in Richmond,California which was originally built as housing for defense workers from the Kaiser Shipyards. It lies at an elevation of 13 feet. Constructed by the Richmond Housing Authority in 1941 as Richmond's first public defense housing project,it is one of the only projects funded by the Community Facilities Act of 1940 that still exists in Richmond and one of the few in the nation not destroyed after the war. It is one of 20 public housing projects built in Richmond before and during World War II. The Village was sold by the government to its residents for $1,512,00.00 February 28,1957,remaining mutual housing to this day under the ownership of the Atchison Village Mutual Homes Corporation. Many think it would be covered under Proposition 13 as a single unsold parcel,thus limiting tax increases to 2%,but the Tax Assessor does not treat it that way.
The Richmond City Council is the governing body for the city of Richmond,California. The council consists of the Mayor of Richmond and six other city council members,one designated Vice Mayor. The council members are all elected from the whole city;no members are elected by district or ward. The council members are elected to four-year terms,as opposed to the previous six-year terms. They are not all elected at once. The council members meet every first and third Tuesday of the month and,if necessary,hold special meetings on the remaining Tuesdays. Presently the entire city council is Democratic.
The Richmond,California 2006 city election decided the mayor,four council members,and one measure submitted to the voters of Richmond,California on November 7,2007. The election also elected the first Green Party mayor of this city,and made Richmond the largest city in the United States to have a Green mayor. Furthermore,it unseated an incumbent mayor from a major political party by one from a minor third party.
John E. Márquez is an American politician and activist who has held various positions in Richmond,California city government. For eighteen years,Márquez served as a city councilman. He was the first Latino to serve on the Richmond City Council. Originally he was an appointee to the council in 1985 and won an election to that seat in 1987;he subsequently lost his second bid in 1991. He was elected again in 1993 and twice more in 1997 and 2004. In 1990 and 1998,he served as vice mayor. Márquez was defeated for re-election in 2008,and lost a mayoral bid in 2001 to Gayle McLaughlin. In addition to his elected offices in the city of Richmond,he has held various other positions in Contra Costa County,California on various commissions.
Mindell Lewis Penn is an American politician from Richmond,California. She served on the Richmond City Council from 1999 and 2005. She is a graduate of the UC Davis Financial School of Management,and is affiliated with the "powerful" Bay Area group Black Women Organized For Political Action. She was an executive for PG&E working in community relations and finance,and was elected twice as the chairwoman of the Sacramento Urban League board of directors. She served on the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park project committee.
Thomas King Butt is an American politician and architect and the former mayor of Richmond,California. He was vice-mayor in 2002 and 2012 and a member of the Richmond City Council for over 20 years before being elected mayor. He is the longest continuously serving council member in Richmond's history.
Harpreet Singh Sandhu is an Indian American politician and community activist from Richmond,California and one of the most prominent ones of the Sikh religion. He was the first Asian and the first Sikh city councilman in Richmond,and one of only a few Sikhs to hold office in the United States.
The Point Richmond Historic District is the downtown area of Point Richmond in Richmond,California. It has been listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places since November 5,1979,for architecture and historical significance.
The Chevron Richmond Refinery is a 2,900-acre (1,200 ha) petroleum refinery in Richmond,California,on San Francisco Bay. It is owned and operated by Chevron Corporation and employs more than 1,200 workers,making it the city's largest employer. The refinery processes approximately 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil a day in the manufacture of petroleum products and other chemicals. The refinery's primary products are motor gasoline,jet fuel,diesel fuel and lubricants.
Betty Reid Soskin is an American retired ranger with the National Park Service,previously assigned to the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond,California. Until her retirement on March 31,2022,at the age of 100,she was the oldest National Park Ranger serving the United States.
John Gioia is an American politician. He has served on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors in Contra Costa County,California since 1998 and was re-elected three times. He served as chair in 2002,2006 and 2010. John Gioia is a Democrat. Contra Costa supervisorial seats are non-partisan.
George Livingston was an American politician who served as the first elected African American Mayor of Richmond,California,from 1985 to 1993. Livingston was appointed Mayor in 1985 by the city council. He won election as Richmond's first elected African American mayor in 1989 for a full term.
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- 1 2 Chevron Access Needed for Richmond Bay Trail Link, by Geneviève Duboscq, The Berkeley Daily Planet , 27-03-2007, access date 06-04-2009
- 1 2 http://www.rosietheriveter.org/trustbd.htm Rosie the Riveter
- ↑ Peterson, Gary (2012-01-07). "Richmond's first elected black mayor dies". Contra Costa Times . Retrieved 2012-01-20.
- ↑ Examiner staff report (November 5, 1997). "Election '97. Incumbents do well in Contra Costa". San Francisco Examiner. SFGate. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
Also in Richmond, voters re-elected Mayor Rosemary Corbin, who ran unopposed...
- ↑ Richmond reluctant to pressure Chevron, Benjamin Pimentel, San Francisco Chronicle, 09-04-1999, access date 23-03-2012
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