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2nd Mayor of San Diego from 1851 to 1852 For the composer, see David Kurtz (composer).
David B. Kurtz
2nd Mayor of San Diego
In office
January 14, 1851 – January 10, 1852
Preceded byJoshua H. Bean
Succeeded byGeorge P. Tebbetts
Personal details
Born1819
Pennsylvania, US
DiedMarch 23, 1898
San Luis Rey, California, US
Political partyWhig
Other political
affiliations		Democratic

David Brower Kurtz (1819 – March 23, 1898), also known as Daniel Brower Kurtz, was an American Whig and Democratic politician from California.

Kurtz was born 1819 in Pennsylvania. He came to San Diego in 1850 where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1856. He also was a contractor and constructed several buildings in Old Town San Diego and elsewhere.

Kurtz was the second mayor of San Diego under U.S. rule, from 1851 until 1852. He later was a member of the California State Senate in 1852 and 1855, as a Whig party member, county judge 1855–1856, member of the California State Assembly during 1861–1862 and 1865–1866, representing the 1st District.

During the Civil War Kurtz was a Breckinridge Democrat (Southern sympathizer). Kurtz was appointed brigadier-general of the State Militia in 1856. Kurtz was president of the San Diego's Board of Trustees in 1862, when San Diego did not have a Mayoral form of government.

In 1866 he moved to San Luis Rey, California, in present Oceanside, California, and died there 1898. He's buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in San Diego.

Kurtz Street, located in the Midway district and Middletown neighborhoods of San Diego, is named for him. The Fire Mountain area of Oceanside also has a Kurtz Street.

References

  1. Black, Samuel T. (1913). San Diego and Imperial Counties, California: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement. S.J. Clarke Publishing Company.
  2. "Courts, County Officers, Etc". The Placer Herald. 1866-02-03. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
Political offices
Preceded byJoshua H. Bean Mayor of San Diego, California
1851—1852 		Succeeded byGeorge P. Tebbetts
Preceded byRobert W. Groom 1st District, California State Assembly
1861—1862 		Succeeded byD. B. Hoffman
Preceded byJeptha J. Kendrick 1st District, California State Assembly
1865—1866 		Succeeded byGeorge A. Johnson
Mayors of San Diego
denotes acting or interim mayor


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