Ed Lee, who was the son of Chinese immigrants and rose to become the first Asian American mayor of San Francisco in 2011, died early Tuesday after a heart attack
Former mayor Willie Brown told the San Francisco Examiner that Mr. Lee was shopping at his neighborhood Safeway when he suffered the attack. Mr. Lee died just after 1 a.m. at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, with friends, family and colleagues by his side, the city said.
The 65-year-old Democrat — an affordable-housing advocate who led the city during a time of ballooning rents and explosive real estate prices — was remembered by political leaders as a defender of civil rights. This year, Mr. Lee clashed with President Trump over the city’s protections of undocumented immigrants.
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) called Mr. Lee “a true champion for working people.”
Mr. Lee, an activist lawyer before he began working for city agencies, was “one of America’s most passionate champions for climate action,” former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement.
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