Fitch Robertson was Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1943 to 1947. Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ...

He was born February 12, 1896 in Pueblo, Colorado. The City of Pueblo is a home rule municipality located in Pueblo County in southern Colorado. ...

Robertson was a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines. He served during World War I in a U.S. Army engineering battalion. He came to Berkeley in 1929. He married Myla Kenworthy, with whom he had four children. The Colorado School of Mines is a public research university devoted to engineering and applied science located in the town of Golden, Colorado. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ...

After the City Manager announced his intention to resign as of January 15, 1947, the Berkeley City Council chose Mayor Robertson to replace him which it did on January 20. The Vice Mayor, 80-year old Carrie Hoyt then assumed the office of Mayor to finish out Robertson's term, thus becoming Berkeley's first female mayor.

Robertson died at his Walnut Creek, California home on March 5, 1956. Walnut Creek is a suburb of San Francisco and Oakland located in Contra Costa County, California, USA, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. ...

References

• Berkeley Gazette, March 6, 1956
• The Voter, newsletter of the League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany and Emeryville, December 2003-January 2004 issue