Michael B. Driver

Michael Branner Driver was Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1927 to 1930, and Sheriff of the Alameda [County Sheriff's Office], Alameda County, from 1930 to 1939. He resigned as Mayor of Berkeley when he was appointed Sheriff, replacing Sheriff Burton Becker, a member of the local Ku [Klux Klan], who was convicted for corruption and sent to San [Quentin Prison].
Michael Branner Driver was born August 4, 1868, in Virginia. 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.