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Item
Title
D7124-3A
Date(s)
- 1938-03-09 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Post election portrait of Mayor-Elect Dr. John C. Siegle and his family. Seated, left to right, are his wife Susan, Dr. Siegle and daughter Joyce. Standing are son John Jr. and daughter Bette. Dr. Siegle was elected Mayor on March 3, 1938, becoming Tacoma's first native son to be elected to that office. He defeated incumbent mayor George Smitley. By the time Dr. Siegle took office in June, he was an ill man. He died April 12, 1939, returning to his home in Tacoma by train from California where he was convalescing. (T.Times, 3/9/1938, p. 1).
Siegle, John C., 1885-1939; Siegle, John C., 1885-1939--Family;