Roger Boas is a San Francisco businessman and politician, long prominent in the Democratic Party in northern California. Boas was born (ca. 1922) in California, the son of a finance company executive of German descent. He served in Europe during World War II, and then owned a successful San Francisco car dealership.

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  • Roger Boas is a San Francisco businessman and politician, long prominent in the Democratic Party in northern California. Boas was born (ca. 1922) in California, the son of a finance company executive of German descent. He served in Europe during World War II, and then owned a successful San Francisco car dealership. In 1958, together with future Mayor and US Senator Dianne Feinstein and Ronald Pelosi (brother-in-law of Nancy Pelosi, now Speaker of the House of Representatives and uncle of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom), Boas was a key figure in the 1958 campaign that elected Clair Engle to the US Senate. Four years later, Boas was himself elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, on which he served until 1973. An avowed liberal, he was quoted in 1968 (when he also chaired the California Democratic Party) as discouraging the influx of "Summer of Love" young people into the city: "My advice to kids around the country is not to come here. There must be hippie havens other than San Francisco. " After running unsuccessfully for Congress in 1972 against Republican incumbent William Maillard, Boas became Chief Administrative Officer of San Francisco under Mayors George Moscone and Dianne Feinstein from 1977 to 1986. In 1987, Boas ran to succeed Feinstein as Mayor, but was defeated by Art Agnos. His campaign posters still "dotted the city" the following year when, during a Police sting operation that broke up a widespread teenage prostitution ring, Boas' face was recognized by one of the prostitutes as "a man who had been soliciting the ring for three years". Boas pled guilty on October 22, 1988, to seven counts of statutory rape involving teenage girls, with twelve more counts dismissed in exchange for his guilty plea. On November 19, 1988, he was fined $100,000 and sentenced to six months of community service, including picking up trash along freeways. Since that scandal, Boas has held no other politically-prominent position, but during the 1990s directed an acclaimed Urban Studies program at the University of San Francisco.
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  • Roger Boas is a San Francisco businessman and politician, long prominent in the Democratic Party in northern California. Boas was born (ca. 1922) in California, the son of a finance company executive of German descent. He served in Europe during World War II, and then owned a successful San Francisco car dealership.
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