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{{Short description|23rd Mayor of San Francisco from 1893 to 1895}}
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{{Infobox Officeholder
| name            = Levi Richard Ellert
| image           = Levi Richard Ellert.jpg
| caption         = Levi Richard Ellert
| order           = 23rd
| office          = Mayor of San Francisco
| term_start      = January 4, 1893
| term_end        = January 6, 1895
| deputy          =
| predecessor     = [[George Henry Sanderson]]
| successor       = [[Adolph Sutro]]
| office2         = Member of the<br />[[San Francisco Board of Supervisors]]<br />from Ward 6
| term_start2     = 1889
| term_end2       = January 4, 1893
| predecessor2    = [[A.M. Burns]]
| successor2       =
| birth_date      = {{Birth date|1857|10|20|mf=y}} 
| birth_place     = San Francisco
| death_date      = {{death date and age|1901|7|21|1857|10|20|mf=y}}
| death_place     = San Francisco
| constituency    = 
| party           = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| spouse          = 
| profession      =
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| signature       =
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}}

'''Levi Richard Ellert''' (October 20, 1857 – July 21, 1901) was an American politician. He served as 23rd Mayor of San Francisco, serving from 1893 to 1895.

== Biography ==
Before entering politics, he had established his own pharmacy in 1883.  After unsuccessfully running for School Director, he was elected Supervisor as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] in 1888 and was reelected in 1890.  He was elected mayor in 1892, and during his term, he passed the bar exam and was admitted to the California bar.  He also "appeared before the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]]."

He served as 23rd Mayor of San Francisco, serving from 1893 to 1895.  He was the first San Francisco native to serve in that office; no previous San Francisco mayors had even been born in California.

After his term, he would serve as director of various private companies and as general manager and the president of the Sanitary Reduction Works.

== Death and legacy ==
Ellert died in 1901 in San Francisco, and was buried at [[Cypress Lawn Memorial Park]] in Colma, California.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Index to Politicians: Eliphas to Ellertson |url=https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eliphaz-ellerbee.html#959.58.24 |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=The Political Graveyard}}</ref>

"Ellert Street" in the [[Bernal Heights]] neighborhood of San Francisco is named for him.

== References ==
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==Sources==
* Hanson, Gladys.  ''San Francisco Almanac''.  San Francisco, CA:  [[Chronicle Books]], 1995.  ({{ISBN|0-8118-0841-6}})

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