Francisco Guerrero was the Alcalde

Alcalde

Alcalde , or Alcalde ordinario, is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions. An alcalde was, in the absence of a corregidor, the presiding officer of the Castilian cabildo and judge of first instance of a town...

 of Yerba Buena

Yerba Buena (town)

Yerba Buena was the original name of San Francisco when in the Spanish Las Californias Province of New Spain, and then after 1822 in the Mexican territory of Alta California, until the Mexican American War ended with the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, when California became a territory of the...

 (later named San Francisco) in 1836 and 1839.

Life

Guerrero was born in Tepic, Mexico. He came to California with the Hijar-Padres Colony in 1834, and settled in San Francisco. He was married to Josefa De Haro (daughter of Alcalde Francisco De Haro

Francisco de Haro

Francisco de Haro was the first Alcalde of Yerba Buena in 1834.-Life:De Haro was born in Compostela, Nayarit, Mexico and came to San Francisco in 1819. He was the first Alcalde of Yerba Buena in 1834. He was instrumental in planning the street grid of the town along with Englishman William A....

) and had five sons. He was the third Alcalde of Yerba Buena in 1836. Guerrero served again as the sixth Alcalde in 1839. In 1844, he was granted Rancho Corral de Tierra

Rancho Corral de Tierra (Palomares)

Rancho Corral de Tierra was a Mexican land grant in present day San Mateo County, California given in 1839 by Governor Pro-Tem Manuel Jimeno to Francisco Guerrero y Palomares. The name means earthen corral in Spanish. Jimeno granted Francisco Guerrero the larger northern part of Rancho Corral de...

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Guerrero was murdered by Francis LeBras in San Francisco, and is buried at Mission Dolores in San Francisco. Guerrero Street in San Francisco is named in his honor.