Julius Kahn was a United States Congressman in California's 4th district and served 12 terms, after his death his wife Florence served in his former office. He has been described by the American Jerusalem as "among the most influential Jews in San Francisco—as well as national–civic life, from the middle of the 19th century into the 1930s". Representative Kahn authored the Kahn Exclusion Act, ultimately enacted as the Chinese Exclusion Act, a United States federal law that that prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers.
