1452) John B. Felton

John Brooks Felton (1827 – 1877). American jurist and politician who served as the 14th Mayor of Oakland, California.

Felton was the son of an almshouse superintendent in Cambridge, Massachusetts and brother of Cornelius Conway Felton, a classics scholar at Harvard University and Samuel Morse Felton, Sr., a railroad executive. He graduated from Harvard in 1847 with a Bachelor's degree and briefly served as a Greek tutor before pursuing the law. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from Cambridge University in 1853. He studied the Napoleonic code in Paris for one year and became fluent in French and Spanish.

 

- "John Felton was something of a character and a good deal of a man, with fiery red hair on the outside of his head and much genial wit and wisdom within it." https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20021719.pdf