Rutherford B. Irones
| Rutherford B. Irones | |
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| 22nd Mayor of San Diego | |
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In office August 2, 1934 – February 1, 1935 |
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| Preceded by | John F. Forward, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Percy J. Benbough |
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| Born | March 4, 1877 Oakland, California |
| Died | February 13, 1948 (aged 70) Sawtelle, California |
| Political party | Republican |
Rutherford B. Irones (March 4, 1877 – February 13, 1948) was a physician and an American Republican politician from California.
Irones was born March 4, 1877 in Oakland, California to John H. Irones, who came to California in 1847. Rutherford Irones graduated from the University of California Medical School and trained as a physician at Vanderbilt Clinics at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. He joined the Marine Hospital Service in 1900 in San Francisco Bay and became a respected physician. He helped out with the San Francisco plague of 1900–1904. Later he went to La Boca, a neighborhood in the South American city of Buenos Aires, studying yellow fever, and visited several hospitals in Asia.
Irones married Georgie E. Dow in January, 1906.
In 1907 Irones opened an office in San Diego where he practiced medicine.
During World War I, Irones served again as Captain in the medical corps, serving in France. At the war's end he remained and was food director for the American Relief Administration in Central Europe and Balkan States. He became friends with Alexander I, the crown prince of Yugoslavia. On January 17, 1920 Irones married the Countess von Retz and Sitzgross, later known as Essy, at Vienna, Austria. Irones returned to San Diego in 1920, where he was a member of the American Medical Association and local medical societies, and the Roman Catholic Church.
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