William Jefferson Hunsaker
| William Jefferson Hunsaker | |
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| 4th Mayor of San Diego | |
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In office January 3, 1888 – November 13, 1888 |
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| Preceded by | George P. Tebbetts |
| Succeeded by | Martin D. Hamilton (acting) |
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| Born | 21 September 1855 Contra Costa County, California |
| Died | 13 January 1933 (aged 77) Los Angeles, California |
| Political party | Workingman (until 1896), then Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Florence Virginia McFarland |
| Children | 5 |
William Jefferson "Will" Hunsaker (1855–1933) was an American lawyer and politician from San Diego and later Los Angeles, California. Hunsaker was the San Diego County District Attorney from 1882 to 1884, 4th Mayor of San Diego from 1887 to 1888 and president of the California Bar Association from 1913 to 1914.
William Hunsaker was born 21 September 1855 in Contra Costa County, California to Nicholas and Lois E. (Hastings) Hunsaker. Nicholas Hunziker settled in California in 1847 and was sheriff of Contra Costa County from 1851 to 1853 and from 1855 to 1857. Lois's uncle was Lansford W. Hastings, author of "Emigrant's Guide To Oregon and California", captain in Frémont's California Battalion, and participant in California's constitutional convention. Nicholas Hunsaker moved his family to San Diego in 1869, where he served as the 10th sheriff of San Diego County from 1875 to 1876.
At 16 years of age, William Hunsaker began to learn the printer's trade, starting as a printer's devil on the San Diego Bulletin, then working as a journeyman printer on the Bulletin and the World for two and a half years. Hunsaker next trained as a lawyer with Major Levi Chase and Albert C. Baker and was admitted to practice law in 1876. On 27 February 1879, Hunsaker married Florence McFarland in San Diego and the couple moved to Tombstone, Arizona. In 1881, Hunsaker assisted his law partner, Thomas Fitch, in defending Wyatt Earp from murder charges resulting from the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. When Earp died in 1929, Hunsaker was one of the pall-bearers at Earp's funeral.
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