Cole Phelps

Cole Phelps (born 19th of January 1920) is a former USMC Officer, LAPD Detective, and the current Governor of Oakland following Governor Aiora Etxeb's resignation. He was born in San Francisco, where his father worked for a shipping company. He married Marie Phelps (née Coakley) in 1940 and had two daughters with her.

After serving for the Marine Corps as an Officer in WW2, he shortly lived in New Hampshire, Rochester. This is where he got into politics, and made his first run for office in Rochester's 1st district's Congressional election of 1948. He came in third as the independent candidate, amassing around 10% of the vote.

A few months later Phelps and his family moved back to Oakland, this time to Los Angeles, where Phelps started serving as a Detective in the LAPD. His stint with the police was short-lived however, as then Governor Etxeb appointed him as Lieutenant Governor. When she resigned, he became Governor of Oakland.