Santa Clara County Assessor's Update

Larry Stone

San Jose Magazine named him one of Silicon Valley’s 100 most powerful leaders.  Pulitzer Prize winning author and Washington Post reporter, Haynes Johnson, described him in his bestselling book, Sleepwalking Through History, as “bright, articulate; an American rarity, a proven political success in a time of political failure.”

He’s been a financial manager on Wall Street, served two terms as Mayor of Sunnyvale, co-founded a successful real estate investment and development firm and the Arts Council of Silicon Valley. 

He and his wife, Carmen, spent a night in the White House with the Clintons, President Bill, Hillary and Chelsea, got to know Fidel Castro on a U.S. Conference of Mayor’s trip to Cuba in 1977, and chatted up Muhammad Ali after a chance encounter in an elevator.

He was elected Santa Clara County Assessor in 1994, and has been re-elected by large majorities five times.  He has also been an active and effective civic leader in many fields ranging from the arts, to education, to the environment.

We know him as Larry Stone:  Silicon Valley’s Renaissance man with an impressive personal art collection.  Please welcome the man whose constituency is larger than the governors of 13 states, Santa Clara County Assessor, Larry Stone.

Addendum:  A native of Seattle, he has an MBA from the University of Washington and has studied at the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.  He and his wife, Carmen, have lived in Sunnyvale since 1970, where they raised three sons.