Michael Branner Driver was Mayor of Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...

 from 1927 to 1930, and Sheriff of Alameda County from 1930 to 1939. He resigned as Mayor of Berkeley when he was appointed Sheriff, replacing Sheriff Burton Becker

Burton Becker

Burton F. Becker was the police chief of Piedmont, California in the early 20th century. He joined the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan and was elected Sheriff of Alameda County in 1926. He was subsequently tried and convicted on corruption charges, removed from office and sent to San Quentin...

, a member of the local Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically...

 http://books.google.com/books?id=60ANXrg4owYC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=%22burton+becker%22+sheriff&source=web&ots=Bf_0aSRIyy&sig=lxFoLVP0XFODHNF3NFmtjw4uMDM, who was convicted for corruption and sent to San Quentin Prison.

Michael Branner Driver was born August 4, 1868 in Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

. He came to Berkeley in 1905 from Colorado. He married Melissa Newkirk. They had a daughter Dixie and a son Quigley. Michael Driver died July 17, 1942 in Berkeley.