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Daniel James White (September 2, 1946 – October 21, 1985) was an American politician who assassinated George Moscone, the 37th mayor of San Francisco, and Harvey Milk, a fellow member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, inside San Francisco City Hall on November 27, 1978. During trial his lawyers argued, controversially, that White did not have the mental capacity required to be found guilty of murder, due to his depression as evidenced by his consumption of junk food. White was convicted, not of murder, but on two counts of voluntary manslaughter and served five years of a seven-year and eight-month prison sentence. Less than two years after his release, he returned to San Francisco and later committed suicide. Dan White was born in Long Beach, California, on September 2, 1946,[1] the second of nine children in a working-class Catholic Irish-American family.[2] He grew up in the Visitacion Valley neighborhood of San Francisco[2] and attended Archbishop Riordan High School, unti

Dan White - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American politician and assassin (1946–1985) This article is about the politician and assassin. For other people with the same name, see Dan White (disambiguation) . {{cite web |last1=Perkins |first1=Laura |title=Dan White a Father -- in Prison |url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Dan-White-a-Father-in-Prison-2533801.php |website=SFGate |date=June 4, 2006|access-date=February 4, 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Stein |first1=Mark A. |last2=Skelton |first2=Nancy |title=For Dan White, Death Ended 2 Years

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