14 Facts About Roger Boas

John Roger Boas was a San Francisco businessman and politician, long prominent in the Democratic Party in northern California.

Roger Boas is the son of Benjamin Boas, a finance company executive of German descent, and Laurie Kline Boas.

Roger Boas received the Silver Star for "gallantry in action" and five battle stars.

Roger Boas was a member of the 94th Field Artillery Battalion, 4th Armoured Division and served as the battalion adjutant.

In 1958, together with the future Mayor and US Senator Dianne Feinstein and Ron Pelosi, Roger Boas was a key figure in the 1958 campaign that elected Clair Engle to the US Senate.

Four years later, Roger Boas was himself elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, on which he served until 1973.

In 1963, Roger Boas began the weekly TV program, World Press, a round table discussion examining news from the US and abroad, with a panel of seventeen experts.

Roger Boas' duties included overseeing a workforce of 2,500 in departments and special projects with combined operating budgets of about $200 million and capital budgets of about $1.8 million.

Roger Boas's responsibilities included overseeing San Francisco's sewer system and garbage collection, and one of his biggest accomplishments was in 1980 with the Solid Waste Program, a long-term program for managing the city's solid waste.

Roger Boas oversaw the development of convention facilities, including the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the long-delayed $128.3 million Moscone Center, built in 1981.

In 1987, Roger Boas ran to succeed Feinstein as mayor but was defeated by Art Agnos.

Roger Boas was a long time member of the Concordia Club in San Francisco.

Roger Boas is the longest-serving member of the Friends of the Fromm Institute Board of Directors.

Roger Boas died of natural causes in his San Francisco home on February 10,2017.