Background
Keesling, Francis Valentine was born on March 3, 1908 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Francis Valentine and Haidee (Grau) Keesling.
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Francis Valentine Keesling
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Graduate, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts AB, Yale University, 1930; Juris Doctor, Stanford University, 1933.
Career
Practice in, San Francisco, 1934-1955, 77-93;
with, West Coast Life Insurance Company, San Francisco, 1936-1977;
president, West Coast Life Insurance Company, 1963-1968;
Chairman of the Board, West Coast Life Insurance Company, 1968-1973;
director, West Coast Life Insurance Company, 1954-1977;
general counsel, director, Hexol Inc., 1973-1987;
consultant, Hexol Inc., since 1988;
consultant, Metropolitan Parking Corporation, 1980-1993;
consultant, American Parking Company, since 1993. Chief liaison and legislation officer national headquarters Selective Svc. System, Washington, 1940-1945, special advisory to director General Hershey, 1945-1965.
Washington representative City and County of San Francisco, 1948-1955.
Achievements
Membership
Member welfare committee City and County of San Francisco, 1946-1947. Former member San Francisco Bay Area Council (board directors, vice president urban affairs, San San Francisco Chamber of C.). Past chairman task force alcohol and drugs Governor's Committee on Traffic Safety.
Past member of advisory commission on alcoholism California Dept.Pub. Health; senior county, past president San Francisco Young Men’s Christian Association. Past board directors Guide Dogs for Blind.
Board directors, past president California Traffic Safety Foundation under governments Pat Brown and Ronald Reagan. Chairman Northern California campaign William F. Knowland for United States Senate, 1946 and Citizens for Nixon-Agnew, 1968. Served from Lieutenant to colonel United States Army.
Member California Bar Association, San Francisco Bar Association, National Association Life. Ins.Counsel (Executive Committee, president 1956-1957), American Life Convention (legal section, past state vice president, delegate house delegations American Bar Association 1962-1963, past vice president California and Nevada chapters), Health Insurance Association American, San Francisco Art Association (past president), California Insurance Federation (past president), Villa Taverna Club, Cotillion Ball (floor committee 1967-1993), Bankers Club, Pacific Union Club (San Francisco), Masons, Chi Psi, Phi Delta Phi.
Connections
Married Mary Heath, March 20, 1937 (separated). 1 child, Francis Valentine III.
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Nationality
American