It's expected that California Gov. Gavin Newsom will name a successor in no more than a week for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died Friday.
There will, of course, be a period of mourning for Dianne Feinstein. California's longest-serving U.S. senator and, at 90, the oldest member of the Senate, died Friday morning.
Most mentioned for the appointment is that of London Breed, the mayor of San Francisco, an office once held by by Feinstein and Newsom. When incumbent Mayor Ed Lee suddenly died, Breed, who was president of the City Board of Supervisors, unexpectedly succeeded to the mayoralty. Ironically, these were circumstances similar to those under which Feinstein came to the city's top job in 1978 after the assassination of Mayor George Moscone.
Newsom will become the first California governor since 1953 to have appointed both senators from the state.
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