Abraham Ruef (September 2, 1864 – February 29, 1936) was an American lawyer and politician. He gained notoriety as the corrupt political boss behind the administration of Mayor Eugene Schmitz of San Francisco during the period before and after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake .

Few figures in San Francisco’s history are as interesting, or as enigmatic, as that of its turn-of-the-century city boss, Abe Ruef. Born Abraham Rueff (he eventually dropped the second “f”) in 1864 to a prosperous Jewish merchant family in San Francisco, he was regarded as a …

Lawyer Abe Ruef was the political boss behind the graft at the center of the prosecution. S.F. Mayor James Phelan lost his fourth contest for the office to Musician's Union President Eugene Schmitz. Abe Ruef was a Republican for a number of years when it was generally seen as the party of the Southern Pacific Railroad and its allies. Ruef ...

Abraham Ruef. An American political boss in San Francisco, Abraham Ruef (1864-1936) was convicted of bribery in a famous antigraft trial. Abraham Ruef, the son of French-Jewish immigrants, was born in San Francisco, Calif., Sept. 2, 1864.

Abe Ruef was an unpaid attorney for the mayor's office, but everyone knew he was the power behind the throne. He wrote most of the mayor's official papers and conducted an ongoing series of meetings with Mayor Schmitz, city commissioners, officials, seekers of favors or jobs, and so on, all from his offices at California and Kearny, now the ...

This article explores the trials of Abraham Ruef, the (in)famous founder and boss for the Union Labor Party for the Eugene Schmitz mayoral administration in San Francisco, on charges of bribery and extortion, for which he was convicted and sentenced to the maximum penalty of fourteen years in jail.

2015年7月17日 · The grand jury soon indicted Ruef and Schmitz for taking bribes from “French restaurants” — barely concealed houses of prostitution. Ruef was arrested and made bail.

urban political boss. If anything, Abe Ruef seemed not only to meet the standard set by the more common Irish bosses, he surpassed it. He manipu lated the political process from behind the scenes with cunning and dex terity. He wrote speeches and constructed political platforms. When the occasion required, Ruef even functioned as his own best ...

2015年7月3日 · Just six months after the 1906 catastrophe, San Francisco was jolted by an equally devastating political earthquake. By the time the last aftershock had subsided, the city’s powerful boss, Abe...

Ruef, Abraham (Abe Ruef) ro͞of [key], 1864–1936, American political boss, b. San Francisco. He practiced law in San Francisco after 1886 and became a familiar figure in San Francisco ward politics. He was active in the local Republican party and …