Dianne Feinstein Remembered

Some of the late senator’s favorite things go up for auction

FranMorelandJohns
ILLUMINATION
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3 min readOct 1, 2024

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“You really need to come see this,” texted a friend. She was right.

Dianne Feinstein’s jewelry — presumably just a selection of it — and a few paintings, sculptures and pieces of memorabilia will be auctioned on October 8 by Bonham’s in Los Angeles. You might want to bid on something.

I met the late senator several times around town, but we didn’t exactly move in the same circles. When I arrived in San Francisco in 1992, though, some of the earliest tales I was told were of the horrific day in 1978 when Mayor George Moscone was assassinated at City Hall, along with Supervisor Harvey Milk. Feinstein, then President of the Board of Supervisors, made the announcement to the world.

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She quickly became San Francisco’s first female Mayor, and was reportedly a very popular one. Despite losing a race for governor in 1990, she soon afterwards (in 1992) became California’s first female senator — and kept that spot, through five re-elections, until her death last year.

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FranMorelandJohns
ILLUMINATION

Lifelong newspaper & magazine writer, author, blogger at franjohns.net, agitator for justice, kindness & interfaith understanding.