Ole Hanson was an American politician and realtor who served as the mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1918 to 1919. He was born on January 6, 1874 near Racine, Wisconsin to Norwegian immigrants. He passed the Wisconsin bar exam at the age of sixteen but could not carry out his planned law career because he was too young. He moved out west with his wife and two children in 1902 and went into real estate. He was a co-founder of the city of Lake Forest Park in the Seattle region in 1912. Later on, he ran for mayor of Seattle and won to become the 33rd mayor there in 1918.. He had to deal with labor unrest there and was not popular as the result of his dealings with the unions. Anarchists almost killed him there in April 1919 and he resigned soon after. He took his large family and moved south to California where he resumed his real estate interests. He bought two thousand acres of land along the coast in southern Orange County. He named it San Clemente and brought in buyers. He had a master plan for the future city that all of the buildings there have a common theme: red tiled, stuccoed as in the old Spanish Colonial style. He built various buildings, including his own home, around in the community and donated them all to the city when it was incorporated in 1928. His home went through several owners before coming under the care of a non- profit organization. The house and its surroundings is now known as Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens and can be visited nowadays. Ole lost his home and much of his holdings in the Great Depression and later on, went on to develop real estate in Twenty Nine Palms, California. He died in Los Angeles in 1940 from a heart attack, leaving his wife and nine children.∼Seattle Mayor. He served as mayor of Seattle, Washington from March 1918 to August 1919. He gained national attention during the 1919 Seattle general strike, putting down a pro-Bolshevik labor uprising that threatened to spread across the United States. After failing to secure the Republican nomination for vice president in 1920, he moved to Southern California becoming active in civic affairs. In 1925 he founded the City of San Clemente, California, the future home and Western White House of President Richard Nixon. He was the author of "Americanism vs Bolshevism" published in 1920. He died in Los Angeles, California at the age of 66 following a fatal heart attack.
Ole Hanson was an American politician and realtor who served as the mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1918 to 1919. He was born on January 6, 1874 near Racine, Wisconsin to Norwegian immigrants. He passed the Wisconsin bar exam at the age of sixteen but could not carry out his planned law career because he was too young. He moved out west with his wife and two children in 1902 and went into real estate. He was a co-founder of the city of Lake Forest Park in the Seattle region in 1912. Later on, he ran for mayor of Seattle and won to become the 33rd mayor there in 1918.. He had to deal with labor unrest there and was not popular as the result of his dealings with the unions. Anarchists almost killed him there in April 1919 and he resigned soon after. He took his large family and moved south to California where he resumed his real estate interests. He bought two thousand acres of land along the coast in southern Orange County. He named it San Clemente and brought in buyers. He had a master plan for the future city that all of the buildings there have a common theme: red tiled, stuccoed as in the old Spanish Colonial style. He built various buildings, including his own home, around in the community and donated them all to the city when it was incorporated in 1928. His home went through several owners before coming under the care of a non- profit organization. The house and its surroundings is now known as Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens and can be visited nowadays. Ole lost his home and much of his holdings in the Great Depression and later on, went on to develop real estate in Twenty Nine Palms, California. He died in Los Angeles in 1940 from a heart attack, leaving his wife and nine children.∼Seattle Mayor. He served as mayor of Seattle, Washington from March 1918 to August 1919. He gained national attention during the 1919 Seattle general strike, putting down a pro-Bolshevik labor uprising that threatened to spread across the United States. After failing to secure the Republican nomination for vice president in 1920, he moved to Southern California becoming active in civic affairs. In 1925 he founded the City of San Clemente, California, the future home and Western White House of President Richard Nixon. He was the author of "Americanism vs Bolshevism" published in 1920. He died in Los Angeles, California at the age of 66 following a fatal heart attack.
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