"American mayor" . . . . "1877-05-02Z"^^ . "John Brooks Felton"@en . . . . . "1877Z"^^ . "1827Z"^^ . . "Felton, John Brooks"@en . . . "John Brooks Felton (born 1827 in Saugus, Massachusetts, died May 2, 1877 in Oakland, California was an American jurist and politician who served as the 14th Mayor of Oakland, California).Felton was the son of an almshouse superintendent in Cambridge, Massachusetts and brother of Cornelius Conway Felton, a classics scholar at Harvard University and Samuel Morse Felton, Sr., a railroad executive. He graduated from Harvard in 1847 and briefly served as a Greek tutor before pursuing the law."@en .