About Bob Holcomb
Lived 1922 – 2010 (aged 88). Bob Holcomb was an American politician.
William Robert "Bob" Holcomb (March 1, 1922 – November 29, 2010) was an American politician and attorney. Holcomb was the longest serving mayor of San Bernardino, California, to date. He held office as San Bernardino's mayor from 1971 until 1985, and returned to office again from 1989 until 1993. Bob Holcomb's father, Grant Holcomb, served as the mayor of San Bernardino from 1925 until 1927.
Holcomb died of heart failure at Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Medical Center in Loma Linda, California, on November 29, 2010, at the age of 88.
On May 6, 2014, San Bernardino City Unified School District's Board voted unanimously to rename Little Mountain Elementary School after Holcomb.
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American mayor
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Bob Holcomb was born on 1 March 1922 in San Bernardino.
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Bob Holcomb died on 29 November 2010 in Loma Linda.
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Bob Holcomb was a politician.
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