Résumé

Member, City and County of San Francisco, Department of City Planning, San Francisco, CA, 1942-1946. T.J. Kent, Jr., and Francis Violich, who both taught city planning at the University of California, Berkeley, were founding members of San Francisco's first Department of City Planning in 1942.

Director, City and County of San Francisco, Department of City Planning, San Francisco, CA, under Mayor Roger Lapham (1883-1966), between c. 1946 and 1948, and Mayor John F. Shelley (1905-1974), between c. 1964 and 1968.

Member, City of Berkeley, City Council, Berkeley, CA, elected twice during the 1950s.

Teaching

Founder, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Department of City and Regional Planning, Berkeley, CA.

Chair, UCB, Department of City and Regional Planning, Berkeley, CA, 1948-1956 and 1960-1964.

Professional Activities

Member, Telesis, San Francisco, CA, c. 1939-1950. Kent was a leading member of this Bay Area planning collective composed of architects, landscape architects, urban and regional planners and a museum curator. It produced several important, nationally visible, San Francisco Museum of Art exhibitions on architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning.

College

Bachelor's degree, Letters and Science, Architecture, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA, 1938.

Relocation

Urban planner T.J. "Jack" Kent, Jr., was born in Oakland, CA, on 01/30/1917.

The Social Security Death Index indicated that he died on 04/27/1998, while Gerald D. Adams, in his San Francisco Examiner newspaper obituary of 05/03/1998, listed his date of death as 04/26/1998. (See Gerald D. Adams, SF.Gate.com and the San Francisco Examiner, "T.J. Kent, 81, a man who helped create The City," published 05/03/1998, accessed 09/24/2025.)

Parents

His father Thomas John Kent, Sr., worked as an architect.