California Blue Book or State Roster

 

1907

 

 

 

  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

 

 

 

STATE OFFICERS, JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT, JUSTICES OF THE DISTRICT COURTS OF APPEAL, UNITED STATES SENATORS, REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS, STATE SENATORS, MEMBERS OF THE ASSEMBLY, AND LEGISLATIVE ATTACHES.

 

 

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

 

GOVERNOR.

 

   JAMES NORRIS GILLETT  (Republican)  was born at Viroqua, Vernon County, Wisconsin, September 20, 1860.  When five years of age he went with his parents to Sparta, in the same State, where he attended the public schools; when eighteen years of age he commenced the study of law in the offices of Bleekman & Bloomingdale, and was admitted to practice in October, 1881.  In 1884 he came to California, locating in the city of Eureka, Humboldt County, his present home; in 1889 he was appointed City Attorney, and conducted the office for six years; in 1896 he was elected to the State Senate, serving through the sessions of 1897 and 1899, and was chairman of the judiciary committee; in 1902 he was elected Representative in Congress from the First District, and re-elected in 1904; resigned as Congressman, October 4, 1906, and was elected Governor on the following 6th of November; inaugurated at Sacramento January 9, 1907.

 

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

 

   WARREN REYNOLDS PORTER  (Republican)  was born in the city of Santa Cruz, California, March 30, 1861, and educated in the public schools, finishing at St. Augustine's College, Benicia.  He is a banker, with residence at Watsonville; and a member of the State Board of Prison Directors; was a Presidential Elector in 1900 on the McKinley-Roosevelt ticket; elected Lieutenant-Governor, November 6, 1906.

 

SECRETARY OF STATE.

 

   CHARLES FORREST CURRY  (Republican)  was born in the State of Illinois, at Naperville, Du Page County, March 14, 1858, but resided at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, until 1873, when his parents removed to Washington Territory.  In 1875 he came with his parents to California, and located in San Francisco.  In 1886 he was elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-sixth District.   On July 1, 1890, he received the appointment of Superintendent of Station”B,” Post Office, in San Francisco, which position he held until 1894, when he resigned and was elected County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco; while in this position, in 1898, he was elected Secretary of State; was re-elected in 1902, and again re-elected November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties.

 

CONTROLLER.

 

ALFRED BOURNE NYE  (Republican)  was born at Stockton, California, October 25, 1853; he received his education in the public schools of Massachusetts and in the Academy at Falmouth, in the same State; he became a newspaperman, and was residing in Oakland, California, at the time when Governor George C. Pardee selected him as his Private Secretary, in which capacity he acted from January, 1903, until November 23, 1906, when he was appointed by Governor Pardee as State Controller to take the place of E. P. Colgan, deceased; on January 7, 1907, Governor Pardee appointed him to the same office, vice self and E. P. Colgan, deceased.

 

   TREASURER.

 

   WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS (Republican)  was born at Gold Hill, Nevada, November 6, 1870; he came to Fresno County, California, in 1879, where he attended the public schools; was in the drug business for a time, and then became an accountant; served as Deputy County Clerk of Fresno County for the four years 1895-1898.  From 1898 to 1907 was associated with “The California Raisin Growers' Association.*  Elected State Treasurer November 6, 1906.

 

ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

 

   ULYSSES S. WEBB (Republican)  was born at Flemington, West Virginia, September 29, 1864; in 1870 he removed with his parents to Kansas, in which State he was educated; came to California in June, 1888, and engaged in the practice of law in 1889 at Quincy, Plumas County; elected District Attorney of that county in 1890; re-elected in 1892, 1896, and 1900; resigned as District Attorney in September, 1902, and was appointed Attorney-General by Governor Gage September 15, 1902, to take the place of Tirey L. Ford, resigned; elected to the same office for the regular term November 4, 1902, and re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

SURVEYOR-GENERAL.

 

   WILLIAM STEPHEN KINGSBURY  (Republican)  was born in Oakland, California, August 3, 1870; he received a grammar school education and then commenced the study of civil engineering under private instructors; after perfecting himself in this profession he took up his residence at Los Angeles, where he held the position of Chief Deputy City Engineer; elected Surveyor-General November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties.

 

CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT.

 

   FRANK L. CAUGHEY  (Republican)  was born in 1863 in the Dominion of Canada, but has resided in California since 1866; he received a public school and collegiate education, and is a teacher by occupation; his home is at Ukiah; he was Auditor of Mendocino County from January, 1899, until December, 1906; on November 6, 1906, he was elected Clerk of the Supreme Court of California.

 

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

 

   EDWARD HYATT  (Republican)  was born at Huntington, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1858, but was educated in the public schools of Ohio and at the Ohio State University; he took up school teaching as his occupation, came to California in 1884, and settled in Riverside County, where beginning with 1895 he served several terms as County Superintendent of Schools, and also acted as Instructor for Teachers' County Institutes throughout the State; elected Superintendent of Public Instruction, November 6, 1906 as the nominee of the Republican party and Independence League.

 

SUPERINTENDENT OF STATE PRINTING.

 

   WILLIAM WIGMORE SHANNON  (Republican)  was born at San Francisco, May 30, 1858, and educated in the public schools of that city, graduating from the Lincoln School in 1872; he then entered his father's printing office and learned the trade of printer, which occupation he subsequently followed; elected Superintendent of State Printing, November 4, 1902, and re-elected November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties.

 

 

 

JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT.

 

CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT.

 

    WILLIAM HENRY BEATTY  (Republican)  was born at Monclova, Lucas County, Ohio, February 18, 1838; he lived for a time in Kentucky, and came from that State to California in 1853, arriving in Sacramento in March; he received his education in the common schools of Kentucky and California, finishing in the University of Virginia; was admitted to the bar in California in January, 1861; served as City Attorney of Austin, Nevada, in 1864; as a Judge of the District Court and as Judge of the Supreme Court of that State during the years from 1864 to 1881; in 1888 he was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of California, re-elected in 1890, and again re-elected in 1902.

 

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT.

 

   FRANK M. ANGELLOTTI  (Republican)  was born at San Rafael, California, in 1861, and educated in the public schools of this state and in Hastings College of the Law at San Francisco; he was admitted to practice law in 1882, and took up his profession in San Rafael; was elected District Attorney of Marin County in 1885 and served for three terms; elected Judge of the Superior Court of Marin County in 1890 and served two terms; elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, November 4, 1902.

 

   LUCIEN SHAW  (Republican)  was born near Vevay, Indiana, March 1, 1845; was educated in the common schools and at Indianapolis Law College and admitted to practice law in Indiana in 1869; came to California in 1883 and engaged in the practice of the law in Fresno County; removed to Los Angeles in 1886 and was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County in March, 1889; elected for the full term in 1890 and re-elected in 1896; elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, November 4, 1902.

 

   FREDERICK W. HENSHAW  (Republican)  was born in Illinois, May 24, 1858; he arrived in California in 1873 and graduated from the University of California in 1879; was admitted to practice law in 1880; served as Justice of the Peace in the city of Oakland, and was elected Judge of the Superior Court of Alameda County in 1890; resigned December 8, 1894; elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1894 and re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   WILLIAM G. LORIGAN  (Republican)  was born at Melbourne, Australia, February 12, 1855; came to this State in 1860; was educated at Santa Clara College, California, and at St. Vincent's College of Cape Girardeau, Missouri; admitted to practice law in California; was elected Judge of the Superior Court of Santa Clara County in 1890; re-elected in 1896 and in 1902; resigned as Superior Judge of Santa Clara County, and was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court January 5, 1903, to fill unexpired term of Hon. Jackson Temple, deceased; elected to full term, November 6, 1906.

 

   THOMAS BARD McFARLAND  (Republican)  was born at Mercersberg, Pennsylvania; educated at Marshall College, Mercersberg, and admitted to practice law; arrived in California in September, 1850, and engaged in law practice at Nevada City and later at Sacramento; was a Member of the State Assembly in 1856 and District Judge in Nevada and Placer counties, 1862-70; was a Register of the United States Land Office at Sacramento and a member of the Board of Education of Sacramento City; was Judge of the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Superior Court of Sacramento County, 1882-86; elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1886 and re-elected in 1898.

 

M. C. SLOSS (Republican)  was born in New York City, February 28, 1869, but was brought to this State in 1872; he received his education in the San Francisco public schools, in Belmont School, in Harvard College, and in the Harvard Law School; returning to San Francisco he took up his profession as a lawyer, and in 1900 was elected Judge of the Superior Court; on February 1, 1906, he was appointed to take the place of Walter Van Dyke, deceased, as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; he was regularly elected for the remainder of the unexpired term, November 6, 1906.

 

PRESIDING JUSTICE, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT.

 

   JAMES ADDISON COOPER  (Democrat)  was born in North Carolina, December 25, 1852, and was educated in the common schools of that State and in a private school in Ashville; in May, 1876, he came to California, and read law in Santa Rosa, from which point he was admitted to the bar in 1877, and at once entered upon the practice of his profession at Ukiah, in Mendocino County; in 1898 he removed to San Francisco, and in the following year was appointed a Commissioner of the Supreme Court, which position he held until April, 1905, when he was appointed Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, for the First District; in November, 1906, he was elected Presiding Justice of the First District Court and allotted the four-year term.

 

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES, FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT.

 

   SAMUEL PIKE HALL  (Republican)  was born in Monterey County, California, March 3, 1854, and received a common and high school education; he then studied law, and took up the practice of that profession in Oakland; served as Deputy District Attorney of Alameda County from 1878 to 1882, when he was elected District Attorney, to which position he was re-elected in 1884 and again in 1886; elected Judge of the Superior Court of Alameda County in 1896, and re-elected in 1902; in April, 1905, he was appointed Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, for the First District; elected to the same position, November 6, 1906, and allotted the twelve-year term.

 

   FRANK HENRY KERRIGAN  (Republican)  was born at Green Valley, Contra Costa County, California, September 17, 1867, and educated in the public schools; he became a lawyer, with residence in San Francisco; in November, 1893, he was elected Justice of the Peace for that City and County, and re-elected in 1895 and 1897; in 1899 he was elected Judge of the Superior Court for an unexpired term, and re-elected for the full term in 1903; elected Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, First District, November 6, 1906, and allotted the eight-year term.

 

 

PRESIDING JUSTICE, SECOND APELLATE DISTRICT.

 

   MATTHEW THOMPSON ALLEN (Republican)  was born at Greenville, Ohio, September 17, 1848; he was educated in the common schools of his native State, with a partial course at Otterbein University; in February, 1887, he came to California, and took up the practice of his profession of attorney at law in Los Angeles; for a time he served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of California; he was elected Judge of the Superior Court for Los Angeles County in November, 1896, and re-elected in November, 1902; on April 10, 1905, he was appointed Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, Second District; elected Presiding Justice for the Second District, November 6, 1906, and allotted the eight-year term.  At this election he was the nominee of the Republican and Democratic parties.

 

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT.

 

   JAMES WILLIAM TAGGART (Republican) was born at Parkersburg, West Virginia, February 24, 1859; he received a common school and academic education and became a lawyer by profession; in 1881 he came to California, and made his home in Santa Barbara, where he served on the Board of Education, and was elected Superior Judge for Santa Barbara County in 1902; on April 10, 1905, he received the appointment of Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal for the Second District, was elected to the same position November 6, 1906, and allotted the twelve-year term.

 

   VICTOR E. SHAW (Republican) was born in Pettis County, Missouri, December 15, 1857; he received his education in the common schools of Missouri and Oregon, in Willamette University at Salem, Oregon, and Ann Arbor Law School, Michigan; came to California in March, 1888, and practiced law at San Diego, which was his home when elected November 6, 1906, as Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, Second District, and allotted the four year term.

 

 

PRESIDING JUSTICE, THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT.

 

   NORTON PARKER CHIPMAN (Republican) was born at Milford, Union County, Ohio, of New England parentage, his father and mother being natives of Vermont.  The family soon afterwards moved to Iowa and resided variously at Keosauqua, Mount Pleasant, and Washington, in that State.  He attended school at these places, receiving most of his education at Howe's Academy in Mount Pleasant and at Washington College.  He commenced studying law at the latter place, but graduated at the Cincinnati Law School, entering practice just before the Civil War, at Washington, Iowa.  At the call of President Lincoln, in 1861, he enlisted in the Second Iowa Infantry, the first three-year regiment from that State; was made second lieutenant of Company H; appointed by Col. Samuel R Curtis regimental adjutant; elected by the officers as major to fill the vacancy caused by the promotion of Col. Curtis to the rank of brigadier-general; was detailed to serve as chief of the latter's staff; returned to his regiment and took part in Grant's campaign on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers; was severely wounded in a charge of his regiment upon the Confederate works at Fort Donelson; was back at his post at the siege of Corinth, where he received promotion as colonel and additional aid-de-camp in the regular army on the staff of Major-General Halleck, and was assigned to duty with his old commander, Curtis, now major-general, commanding the Department of Arkansas and was made his chief of staff; was sent to Washington, D.C., on special duty, his services while there attracting the attention of Secretary of War Stanton, who refused his earnest request to be returned to field duty and he served in the War Department to the close of the war; he successfully performed some important and hazardous special service as bearer of dispatches to commanders in the field, by the personal detail of President Lincoln, and came near capture by “Mosby's Guerrillas” on one of these occasions and on another by the retreating army of General Early; as judge-advocate he tried and convicted the Andersonville Prison jailer, Henry Werz, who was hanged in “Old Capitol Prison” for his atrocious cruelties to prisoners of war; he also tried many other important military commission cases as judge-advocate; was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers at the close of the war, and resigned to enter the practice of law at Washington, D.C., in November,1865; when the District of Columbia was given a territorial form of government he was appointed Secretary of the District by President Grant in 1870, but resigned and was elected Delegate to Congress, where he served two terms (1871-1875) and was the only representative ever given the district in Congress.  In 1868 and 1869 he was adjutant-general of the Grand Army of the Republic on the staff of its commander-in-chief, General John A. Logan, and was largely instrumental in effecting a reorganization, on a sound and enduring basis, of that remarkable society of Civil War veterans; it was while adjutant-general in 1868 that he wrote the memorable order creating Memorial Day.  He came to California to reside in 1876, since which time he has been prominently connected with the industrial, political, and social welfare of the State.  No man has written more or with better effect or given more of his time and energies to advertise to the world the attractions of California than he; for thirteen years he has been President of the California State Board of Trade; and to him is due the credit of promulgating the dictum that “the climate of California is the State's most valuable asset.”  He was appointed by the Supreme Court in April, 1897, as one of the five commissioners of that court, and served in that capacity until appointed Presiding Justice of the District Court of Appeal, for the Third District, by Governor Pardee in 1905; he was regularly elected to that office in November, 1906 and allotted the twelve-year term.

 

 

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES, THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT.

 

   ALBERT G. BURNETT (Republican) was born in the State of Oregon, April l9, 1856, but was brought to California when two years of age; he received a collegiate education, and took up the profession of the law, which he practiced in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County; in 1888 he was elected District Attorney of Sonoma County, and re-elected to the same position in 1890; in 1896 he was elected Judge of the Superior Court, and re-elected in 1902; elected Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, Third District, November 6, 1906, and allotted the four-year term.

 

   ELIJAH CARSON HART (Republican) was born in an emigrant wagon en route to California, on the banks of the Carson River, in the State of Nevada, on September 9, 1857; he received a common school education, and learned the printer's trade, which occupation he followed for a time, and later engaged in various branches of newspaper work, as reporter, editor, and publisher; he then studied law under the direction of his brother, A. L. Hart, Attorney-General (now deceased), and was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court in 1885; in the spring of 1886 he was elected City Attorney of Sacramento (the city elections then being held in March); in the fall of 1888 he was elected Member of the Assembly from what was then the Nineteenth District, in Sacramento; in the spring of 1890 he was again elected City Attorney, and re-elected to the same office in 1892; in November, 1892, he was elected State Senator, serving through the thirtieth and thirty-first sessions of the Legislature; in 1896 he was elected Judge of the Superior Court for Sacramento, and re-elected in 1902; elected Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, Third District, November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties; and allotted the eight-year term.

 

 

 

 

RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.

 

   ALEXANDER CAMERON IRWIN (Republican) was born at Montreal, Canada, October 8, 1848; he was educated in Cleveland Academy, Toronto, in which city he resided until 1866; after some residence in Wyoming, Nebraska, Utah, and Nevada, he came to California in 1869; for eight years he was a School Commissioner of Marysville, and for two years a member of the City Council; for ten years he was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Yuba County; he now resides in Sacramento; in 1902 he was elected Railroad Commissioner for the First District, and re-elected to the same position in 1906.

 

   H. D. LOVELAND (Republican) was born in New York in 1853 and received his education in the schools of that State.  For nine years he taught school in New York and Kansas, to which latter State he moved in 1876.  Read law and was admitted to the bar in 1881, but after practicing for a few years engaged in mercantile affairs, to which he has since given his attention.  He became a resident of San Francisco in 1887.  For several years he was connected with two of the largest mercantile institutions on the Coast.  He has always taken a lively interest in public affairs and has been for six years President of the Pacific Coast Jobbers and Manufacturers' Association; has also just retired from the presidency of the Transmississippi Commercial Congress.  As Traffic Director and later as President of the Pacific Coast Jobbers and Manufacturers' Association, he assisted in accumulating the evidence and prosecuting the suits before the Interstate Commerce Commission in defense of the jobbing interests of the Coast in what are known as the St. Louis Case, the State Toll Case, and Spokane Case, and others.  He is a director of the California State Board of Trade and of the Manufacturers and Producers' Association.  Mr. Loveland is also prominent in Masonic circles and is at present Grand Captain-General of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of California.  He was a member of Governor Pardee's staff and is a member of Governor Gillett's staff, with the rank of colonel.  He was appointed Railroad Commissioner for the Second District by Governor J. N. Gillett November 23, 1907, to succeed Andrew M. Wilson, resigned.

 

   THEODORE SUMMERLAND (Republican) was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, September 6, 1852; he came to California in 1862 and received a common school education in this State; engaged in the insurance business, with residence in Los Angeles; in 1888 he was elected Councilman from the Eighth Ward, and re-elected in 1890; in 1894 he was elected County Assessor of Los Angeles County; in 1902 he was elected Councilman from the Fourth Ward, and re-elected in 1904, serving as President of the  Council during his last term; elected Railroad Commissioner for the Third District, November 6, 1906.

 

 

 

 

STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION.

 

   JOSEPH HENRY SCOTT (Republican) was born in the city of San Francisco on March 16, 1862, and was educated in the public schools; in 1900 he was elected Tax Collector of San Francisco and served two years; on May 7, 1905, he was appointed by the Mayor as Tax Collector to fill the unexpired term ending January, 1906; elected member of the State Board of Equalization for the First District, November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties.

 

   ALEXANDER BROWN (Republican) was born in Vergennes, Addison County, Vermont, August 28, 1853, and was educated in the public schools of Middlebury, in the same county; in 1873 he came to California, and located in San Joaquin County, but later removed to Calaveras; in 1890 he was elected Member of the Assembly from Calaveras County; in 1898 he was elected member of the State Board of Equalization for the Second District, and served as chairman of the board; re-elected to same office November 4, 1902, and again made chairman; re-elected November 6, 1906, and again elected as chairman.

 

   R. E. COLLINS (Republican) was born in the town of Weaverville, Trinity County, California, March 28, 1873, and educated in the public schools of that section; he is a miner by occupation, with residence at Redding, Shasta County; in 1902 he was elected Assessor of Shasta County, and elected Member of the State Board of Equalization for the Third District, November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties.

 

   JEFF McELVAINE (Republican) was born in San Bernardino, California, July 27, 1862, and educated in the public schools of his native city, where he still resides; his business of that of real estate broker; for four years he held the appointment of Deputy County Tax Collector, and was Chief Deputy County Assessor for twelve years; in 1900 he was elected City Assessor, and was elected County Assessor in 1902; elected Member of the State Board of Equalization for the Fourth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   A. B. NYE (Republican) State Controller and ex-officio Member of the State Board of Equalization. (For biography, see page 359.)

 

 

 

 

UNITED STATES SENATORS.

 

   GEORGE CLEMENT PERKINS (Republican) was born at Kennebunkport, State of Maine, in 1839; he was raised on a farm, with but meager opportunities for education; at the age of thirteen he shipped on a sailing vessel bound for New Orleans, and followed the sea for some three years; in the autumn of 1855 he arrived in San Francisco as a sailor before the mast on the ship “Galatea,” and settled in this State; he engaged in the mercantile business at Oroville for a time, and later in banking, milling, mining, and in steamship transportation, in which latter business he is now chiefly interested, with residence in Oakland; in 1869 he was elected State Senator to represent Butte County, and was again elected to the State Senate in 1873 to represent the counties of Butte, Lassen, and Plumas for the unexpired term of David Boucher, deceased; in 1879 he was elected Governor of California, and served until the expiration of his term in January, 1883, (sic) on July 24, 1893, he was appointed by Governor H. H. Markham as United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Leland Stanford, until a successor should be elected; in January, 1895, he was regularly elected by the Legislature to fill out the remainder of the unexpired term; in January, 1897, he was elected by the Legislature for the full term of six years, and in January, 1903, was re-elected for the succeeding term ending March 3, 1909.

 

 

   FRANK PUTNAM FLINT (Republican) was born at North Reading, Massachusetts, July 15, 1862, but came to California with his parents when but seven years of age, and located in San Francisco, where he was educated in the public schools, and later took up the study of the law; in 1888 he moved to Los Angeles, where he served as Deputy United States Marshal, and in 1892 was appointed Assistant United States Attorney; in 1897 he was appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of California; on January11, 1905, he was elected by the Legislature as United States Senator for California for the term ending March 3, 1911.

 

 

 

 

REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.

 

   WILLIAM F. ENGLEBRIGHT (Republican) was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, November 23, 1855; in 1858 he came with his people to California, and was educated in the public schools of this State; his residence was in Vallejo until August, 1878, when he removed to Nevada City, where he established himself as a mining engineer; he was elected a School Director for his home district in April, 1898, and served until January, 1907; elected Representative in Congress for the First District, November 6, 1906, for the unexpired term of James N. Gillett, resigned, and also for the ensuing regular term.

 

   DUNCAN E. McKINLAY (Republican) was born in Orillia, Ontario, Canada, October 6, 1862, and attended the common schools there until twelve years of age; he then learned the trade of carriage painting, which he followed for a time at Flint, Michigan; in 1883 he came to California, and worked at his trade in San Francisco and Sacramento, and then engaged in the painting business in Santa Rosa; he took up the study of the law and was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court in 1892; in 1896 he was elected as a Presidential Elector at large on the Republican ticket, and in 1900 was appointed as Assistant United States Attorney at San Francisco; elected Representative in Congress for the Second District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   JOSEPH RUSSELL KNOWLAND (Republican) was born at Alameda, California, August 5, 1873, and was educated in public and private schools, finishing in the University of the Pacific; he associated himself with his father in the wholesale lumber and shipping business and also engaged in banking; in 1898 he was elected Member of the Assembly, from Alameda County, and re-elected in 1900; in 1902 he was elected State Senator, and served through the session of 1903, but resigned in 1904 upon receiving the nomination for Representative in Congress to fill the unexpired term in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congress of Hon. Victor H. Metcalf, appointed Secretary of Commerce and Labor, in the President's Cabinet; re-elected Representative in Congress for the Third District, November 6, 1906.

 

   JULIUS KAHN (Republican) was born at Kuppenheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, February 28, 1861; in 1866 he was brought to California by his parents, and received his education in the public schools of San Francisco; after leaving school he followed the theatrical profession for ten years, playing with many well-known stars; in 1890 he returned to San Francisco and took up the study of the law; in 1892 he was elected member of the Assembly from San Francisco; in January, 1894 he was admitted to practice as a lawyer; in 1898 he was elected Representative in Congress for the Fourth District, and re-elected in 1900; in 1904 he was again elected to Congress, and re-elected November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties.

 

   EVERIS ANSON HAYES (Republican) was born at Waterloo, Wisconsin, March 10, 1855, and educated in the public schools; upon graduating from the Waterloo High School he entered the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1873, and graduated from both the literary and law departments of that institution, receiving the degrees of B.L. and LL.B.; he engaged in the practice of law at Madison for four years, and at Ashland for three years; about that time he became interested in iron mines at Ironwood, Michigan, and at Hurley, Wisconsin, and since then has not been actively engaged in his profession, but has devoted his time to the management of his various properties; while residing in Madison he was City Alderman for two years, and for one year was a member of the Board of Supervisors of Gogebic County, Michigan; in 1887 he removed to Santa Clara County, California, where he engaged in fruit-raising, and together with his brother is publisher and proprietor of the San José Daily Morning Mercury and the Evening Herald;  elected Representative in Congress for the Fifth District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties.

 

   JAMES CARSON NEEDHAM (Republican) was born in an emigrant wagon, at Carson City, Nevada, September 17, 1864, his parents being at that time on their way across the plains from the East; the party arrived in California the next day; young Needham attended the public schools and graduated from the San José High School and from the University of the Pacific, from which institution he received the degree of Ph.B.; he then entered the law department of the University of Michigan and studied one year, then for a time took an appointment to a clerkship in the War Department at Washington, D.C., after which he returned to his law studies at the university, and graduated in 1889 with the degree of LL.B.; he at once entered upon the practice of his profession at Modesto, California, where he has since resided; in 1898 he was elected Representative in Congress for the Seventh District, and was re-elected in 1900; the State having then been reapportioned as to congressional districts, he was on November 4, 19092, elected Representative for the Sixth District, re-elected November 8, 1904, and again re-elected to succeed himself, November 6, 1906.

 

   JAMES McLACHLAN (Republican) was born in Argyleshire, Scotland, in August of 1852; in 1855 he came over to New York State with his parents, who went to farming in Tompkins County; he was educated in the public schools, took up teaching for a time, meanwhile continuing his studies, and then entered Hamilton College, from which he graduated in 1878; in 1880 he was admitted to practice law, and commenced work in his profession at Ithaca, where he resided until he came to California, in 1888, and opened offices in Pasadena; in 1890 he was elected District Attorney of Los Angeles County; in 1894 he was elected Representative in Congress for the Sixth District, and in 1900, the State having been reapportioned as to congressional districts, he was elected Representative for the Seventh District; he was re-elected in 1902 and 1904, and again re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   SYLVESTER CLARK SMITH (Republican) was born on a farm near Mount Pleasant, Iowa, August 26, 1858, and educated in the district schools and at Howe's Academy, in his native town; in the fall of 1879 he came to California, arriving in Colusa County, where he farmed and taught school for a time, after which he went to teach in Kern County; while teaching school he was also studying law, and in 1885 was admitted to the bar, and located at Bakersfield, his present home; in 1886 he became editor of the Kern County Echo, which paper he purchased three years later, and continued to edit until 1897, after which he resumed his law practice; he is still the principal owner of the Echo, now a morning daily, and does occasional editorial work; in 1894 he was elected State Senator from Kern and San Luis Obispo counties, and re-elected in 1898; serving eight years; elected Representative in Congress for the Eighth District, November 8, 1904, and re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

 

 

STATE SENATORS.

 

THIRTY-SEVENTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE—1907.

 

(Party designation following name shows political belief; where more than one designation is given it indicates additional party nomination by which member was elected to present term.)

 

   1.  GEORGE THOMAS ROLLEY (Republican) was born at Morris, Grundy County, Illinois, February 5, 1874; two months later his family came to California, and settled in Eureka, Humboldt County; he was educated in the public schools there, and early took up the study of law, in the office of J. N. Gillett, now Governor, and was admitted to practice June 26, 1895, when only twenty-one years of age; he served as attorney for the Public Administrator of Humboldt County from 1899 until 1907; in November, 1902 he was elected Member of the Assembly from the Second District, and re-elected in 1904; elected State Senator from the First District, November 6, 1906, for the unexpired term of Thomas H. Selvage, resigned.

 

   2.  ABNER WEED (Republican) was born at Dixmont, Maine, September 18, 1842, and received a common school education; he served two and a half years in the army of the James River, and was at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox; in November of 1869 he came to California, and became identified with the interests of Siskiyou County; his residence is now at Dunsmuir, where he is in the lumbering and stock-raising business; in 1900 he was elected Supervisor of his county from the Second District, and re-elected in 1904; elected State Senator from the Second District, November 6, 1906.

 

   3.  JOHN BOSTWICK IRISH (Republican) was born at Alden, Minnesota, and received a high school education; in his boyhood he worked at farming in Iowa; in 1889 he came to California, arriving on Christmas Day; he is an attorney at law by profession, practicing at Downieville, Sierra County; in 1900 he was elected Member of the Assembly from Lassen, Plumas, and Sierra counties, elected State Senator from the Third District, November 8, 1904.

 

   4.  JOHN BUNYAN SANFORD (Democrat) was born at Shelbyville, Tennessee, May 17, 1869; in January of 1882 he came to this State, and attended the public schools of Mendocino County, also the Normal School at San José; for eight years he taught school, and served as a member of the Board of Education of Mendocino County for several terms; he is now editor and proprietor of the Ukiah Dispatch-Democrat; he has been a Trustee of the State Normal School at San José; in 1894 was elected Member of the Assembly from Mendocino County, and re-elected in 1896 and 1898; elected State Senator from the Fourth District, November 4, 1902, and re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   5.  BENJAMIN FRANKLIN RUSH (Republican)  was born in Sacramento County, California, in 1852; he received a common school education, and is a farmer and stock-raiser, with residence at Suisun, Solano County; he served a term as Sheriff of that county from 1892 to 1896; he is President of the State Board of Agriculture and ex-officio a Regent of the University of California; elected State Senator from the Fifth District, November 8, 1904.

 

   6.  ALBERT EUGENE BOYNTON (Republican)  was born at Oroville, Butte County, California, October 9, 1875; he was educated in the public schools, and also attended the University of Michigan, from which he obtained the degree of LL.B.; is practicing his profession as attorney at law in Oroville, and has served as City Trustee; elected State Senator from the Sixth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   7.  JAMES ANDERSON McKEE (Republican)  was born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1854; in 1875 he came to California, and is a practicing physician and surgeon at Sacramento City; elected State Senator from the Seventh District, November 8, 1904.

 

   8.  WALTER FITCH PRICE (Republican)   was born in the State of Minnesota, August 22, 1858, and educated in the common schools; he came to California in 1873, arriving on the 3d of June; for a time he engaged in business in Alameda County as a printer and publisher, and in the real estate and insurance brokerage business; for fifteen years he was engaged in horticulture in Sonoma County, and during eight and a half years of that time was Deputy United States Internal Revenue Collector for the Western Division of the Fourth California District, and for nine years was clerk of the Vine Hill District School Board; in 1894 he was elected Member of the Assembly from Sonoma County, and re-elected in 1896; elected State Senator from the Eighth District, November 6, 1906; appointed Expert to State Board of Examiners, July 1, 1907.

 

   9.  CHARLES MORTIMER BELSHAW (Republican)  was born at Fiddletown, in Amador County, California, March 11, 1861, but lived from 1865 to 1883 in the city of San Francisco, where he attended the public schools, finishing his education at University Mound College and at Harvard; from San Francisco he removed to Antioch, Contra Costa County, his present home, from which he attends to his various interests, his principal business being that of mining; in 1894 he was elected member of the Assembly from Contra Costa County, and re-elected in 1896 and in 1898; elected State Senator from the Eleventh District in 1900; elected State Senator from the Ninth District (renumbered from Eleventh), November 8, 1904; appointed member of the State Board of Prison Directors, October 29, 1906; resigned as Prison Director, April 24, 1907.

 

  10.  ANTHONY CAMINETTI (Democrat)  was born at Jackson, Amador County, California, July 30, 1854; he was educated in the public schools and took up the law as a profession; during the years from 1878 to 1882, inclusive, he held the office of District Attorney of Amador County; in 1882 he was elected Member of the Assembly from his home county and served through the session of 1883 and the extra session of 1884; in 1884 he was elected State Senator from Amador and Calaveras counties for the sessions of 1885 and 1887; in 1890 he was elected Representative in Congress from the Second District, and re-elected in 1892; in 1896 he was again elected member of the Assembly from Amador County, and re-elected in 1898; in April, 1897, he was appointed Code Commissioner by Governor Budd, and served until July 31, 1899; elected State Senator from the Tenth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   11.  AUGUST EDWARD MUENTER (Republican)  was born at San Francisco, California, December 17, 1866, and educated in the public schools, finishing at Ann Arbor (Michigan) University, graduating from the law department of that institution; in 1888 he was admitted to the California bar, and is now practicing his profession in Stockton, San Joaquin County; in 1898 he was elected member of the Assembly from the Twenty-sixth District, and elected State Senator from the Fifteenth District, November 6, 1900; elected to represent the Eleventh District (renumbered from the Fifteenth), November 8, 1904; appointed U. S. Internal Revenue Collector for the First District of California, taking office October 1, 1907.

 

   12.  JOHN BARRY CURTIN (Democrat) was born at Gold Springs, Tuolumne County, California, May 15, 1867; he received his education in the public schools and from private instruction, and became an attorney at law, with residence at Sonora; in 1892 he was elected District Attorney of Tuolumne County, and elected State Senator from the Twelfth District in 1898; he was re-elected in 1902, and again re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   13.  JOHN GARCIA DE MATTOS, JR. (Republican), was born at Horta, in the Azores Islands, August 1, 1864, and attended the Portuguese schools of his native city; in 1879 he came to California, arriving July 1st, and resumed his education in the grammar schools of Alameda County, finishing at Washington College, Irvington; in 1888 he was elected road overseer for Centerville District, and re-elected in 1890; he was elected trustee for Centerville School District in June, 1893, and re-elected in 1896, 1899, 1902, and 1905; in 1889 he was appointed a notary public, and since that time at the expiration of his term has been successively reappointed; in 1897 he was admitted to practice law, and has since been engaged in that profession, with residence at Centerville; in 1900 he was elected a Member of the Assembly from Alameda County, and re-elected in 1902; on March 14, 1901, he was appointed a Director of the Institution for the Deaf and the Blind, and reappointed March 16, 1905; resigned November 3, 1905; on November 8, 1904, he was elected State Senator from the Thirteenth District; from October 29, 1906, until January 16, 1907, he was a member of the Board of State Harbor Commissioners for San Francisco; appointed U. S. Appraiser of Merchandise, taking office September 24, 1907.

 

   14.  JOSEPH CLEMENT BATES, JR. (Republican), was born in San Francisco August 10, 1871, and educated in the public schools of that city; he also studied law in his father's office; he became a resident of Alameda in 1889, and is city salesman for the California Pine Box and Lumber company; he was elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-seventh District, November 4, 1902, and re-elected November 8, 1904; elected State Senator from the Fourteenth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   15.  GEORGE RUSSELL LUKENS (Republican)  was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1868; in 1876 he removed to Sydney, Australia, where he remained until 1880, when he came to California, and located in Oakland; while in Sydney, he attended the grammar schools, and in Oakland graduated from the grammar and high schools, was admitted to the University of California, and graduated from that institution and from Hastings College of the Law; he was chosen permanent secretary of the University of California Class of '89, and in 1905 was elected President of the Alumni Association; in 1902 he was admitted to practice; elected State Senator from the Twenty-seventh District, November 6, 1900; elected State Senator from the Fifteenth District (renumbered from the Twenty-seventh), November 8, 1904.

 

   16.  FRANK W. LEAVITT (Republican)  was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, March 24, 1866; in 1869 he removed with his parents to Salem, Oregon, where he attended the common schools; in 1881 he came to California, locating in Oakland, and engaged in the printing and newspaper business; in 1896 he was elected Member of the Assembly from Alameda County, and elected State Senator from the Twenty-sixth District in 1898; he served as a Trustee of the State Normal School at San José from 1899 until 1903; on June 23, 1900, he was appointed a Director of the Institution for the Deaf and the Blind, to fill an unexpired term, was appointed to the same position March 26, 1901, for the regular term, and served until March 16, 1905; elected State Senator from the Sixteenth District (renumbered from the Twenty-sixth), November 4, 1902, and re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   17.  FRANCIS A. MARKEY (Republican and Union Labor) was born in the city of San Francisco, February 19, 1871; he was educated in the public schools, and became a drayman; he holds the position of chief deputy in the office of the County Coroner; on November 8, 1904, he was elected State Senator from the Seventeenth District.

 

   18.  DANIEL J. REILY (Republican and Union Labor) was born at San Francisco, April 25, 1872; he was educated in the public schools, and became an iron-molder; he now holds the position of clerk of the Police Court, Department 1, San Francisco; elected State Senator from the Eighteenth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   19.  RICHARD J. WELCH (Republican and Union Labor) was born in New York City, February 13, 1869, and educated in the public schools; in 1885 he came to California; for a time he was Deputy County Clerk of San Francisco; in November, 1900, he was elected State Senator from the Nineteenth District and re-elected November 8, 1904; on June 1, 1903, he received the appointment of Chief Wharfinger for the Harbor of San Francisco; retired from that position July 1, 1907.

 

   20.  THOS. J. KENNEDY (Democrat and Independence League) was born in New York City, December 28, 1868; educated in the public schools; came to California in May of 1884; an accountant by occupation; was Deputy Registrar of Voters from 1898 to 1900 and served as warrant and bond clerk in the office of the District Attorney of San Francisco from 1900 to 1906; from 1906 to 1907 he was Deputy Assessor; elected State Senator from the Twentieth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   21.  EDWARD I. WOLFE (Republican)  was born in Hull,  England, March 15, 1860; in 1874 he came to California, and attended the public schools of San Francisco, studied law, and was admitted to practice; from 1891 to 1893 he was secretary of the New City Hall Commission in San Francisco; elected State Senator from the Twenty-first District in 1896, and re-elected in 1900; again re-elected November 8, 1904.

 

   22.  GUS HARTMAN (Republican and Union Labor), was born in the city of St.  Louis, Missouri; on May 1, 1883, he came to California, and was for fourteen years employed with Newman & Levinson in San Francisco; he then went into business for himself as a commission merchant in the same city; on November 8, 1904, he was elected Member of the Assembly from the Fortieth District; elected State Senator from the Twenty-second District, November 6, 1906.

 

   23.  GEORGE B. KEANE (Republican and Union Labor)  was born in the city of San Francisco, February 26, 1875, was educated in the public schools, Sacred Heart College, and Hastings College of the Law, and is an attorney by profession; during the years from 1902 to 1906 he was secretary to Mayor Eugene Schmitz; elected State Senator from the Twenty-third District, November 8, 1904; in 1906 he was elected clerk of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, and served until July, 1907.

 

   24.  MARC ANTHONY (Republican, Democrat, and Union Labor)  was born in San Francisco, April 23, 1870; he was educated in the public schools of that city, in the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated from Hastings College of the Law; in 1898 he enlisted in Troop I, Fourth U. S. Cavalry, and participated in fourteen engagements against the Philippine insurgents; for one year he was private secretary to the Postmaster-General at Manila, and for another year was private secretary to General James F. Smith, while that officer was Collector of Customs in the Philippines; on November 8, 1904, he was elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-third District, and was elected State Senator from the Twenty-fourth District, November l6, 1906.

 

   25.  JOHN H. NELSON (Republican)  was born in the city of San Francisco, January 2, 1862, and educated in the public schools; for a time he was a Deputy Tax Collector and Finance Clerk, and also worked in the San Francisco Post Office; in November, 1900, he was elected State Senator from the Twenty-fifth District, and re-elected November 8, 1904; in November, 1905, he was elected on the Union Labor ticket as City and County Recorder of San Francisco.

 

   26.  GEORGE WILDER CARTWRIGHT (Democrat)  was born in Coles County, Illinois, November 9, 1865, but in July of 1869 removed to California, and received his education in the public schools of this State, together with individual instruction at home; he settled in Fresno County, and in 1896 was elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixty-second District; in 1898 he was elected County Clerk; on March 12, 1903, he was admitted to practice as a lawyer; elected State Senator from the Twenty-sixth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   27.  GEORGE S. WALKER (Republican) was born at Santa Rosa, California, September 21, 1874, and educated in the public schools of this State; he made his home in Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, engaged for a time in the newspaper and printing business, and then became assistant postmaster at San José.  In November of 1900 he was elected Member of the Assembly from Santa Clara County, and re-elected in 1902; elected State Senator from the Twenty-seventh District, November 6, 1906, to fill out the unexpired term of Eli Wright, expelled from the Senate.

 

   28.  MARSHALL BLACK (Republican) was born at Lewis Center, Delaware County, Ohio; he studied in the preparatory department of Ohio Wesleyan University, came to California September 4, 1894, and took an economic course at the Leland Stanford Junior University; he is engaged in the business of real estate and loans, with residence at Los Gatos; he was elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-seventh District, November 4, 1902, and elected State Senator from the Twenty-eighth District, November 6, 1906.

 

  29.  SAMUEL H. RAMBO (Republican)  was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1843, and educated in the common schools; he served in the Kansas Volunteer United States Cavalry from September 1, 1862, until September 1, 1865; on May 16, 1878, he came to California, and is now a merchant, with residence at Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz County; he served as a County Supervisor from 1892 to 1896; on November 8, 1904 he was elected State Senator from the Twenty-ninth District.

 

   30.  HENRY MONTAGUE WILLIS (Republican)  was born in the town of San Bernardino, California, November 12, 1871; he was educated in the common schools of his home county, at San Bernardino Academy, at the University of California, from which he obtained the degree of Ph.B. in 1893, and for one year attended Hastings College of the Law; he is now practicing his profession of attorney at law in the city of Redlands; he held the position of Deputy District Attorney of Maricopa County, Arizona, from 1898 to 1900; from 1904 to 1906 he served as Deputy District Attorney of San Bernardino County; elected State Senator from the Thirtieth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   31.  HENRY WALTER LYNCH (Republican)  was born at Lynch, San Luis Obispo  County, California, October 31, 1868; he attended the public schools and the San Francisco high school; he is engaged in stock-raising, with residence in his native town; elected State Senator from the Thirty-first District, November 8, 1904.

 

   32.  EDWARD OLIVER MILLER (Democrat)  was born November 23, 1861, in Visalia, Tulare County, California, where he still resides; he was educated in the public schools and took up the law as a profession; from 1888 to 1890 he was Register in the United States Land Office at Visalia, and a Trustee of the California State Library from 1889 to 1894; elected State Senator from the Thirty-second District, November 6, 1906.

 

   33.  CHARLES BENNETT GREENWELL (Republican)   was born in the city of San Francisco, January 17, 1864, and was educated in the public schools there and in Santa Barbara County, where he now resides; his profession is that of civil engineer; during the years from 1882 to 1885 he was respectively City Engineer of Santa Barbara and Deputy Surveyor of Ventura County, where he went to reside; in 1898 he was elected member of the Assembly from Ventura County; elected State Senator from the Thirty-fifth District in 1900; elected from the Thirty-third District (renumbered from the Thirty-fifth), November 8, 1904.

 

   34.  WILLIAM H. SAVAGE (Republican)  is a native of Ireland, born in Limerick County, March 15, 1840; in 1845 he came with his people to America and located in Boston, Massachusetts, where he attended the public schools; in 1861 he enlisted in the United States Army and served until 1865, and came to California in the same year; he is now a lawyer, with residence at San Pedro; from 1875 to 1880 he was Justice of the Peace for Wilmington Township; he then went to Arizona, where he served in the Legislature of 1883, was elected City Attorney of Tombstone in 1884, and elected District Attorney for Cochise County in 1885; he returned to California, and in 1889 was appointed City Attorney for San Pedro, California, and Deputy District Attorney of Los Angeles County; in 1890 he was appointed a member of the City Council of San Pedro; in 1900 he was elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventy-second District, elected State Senator from the Thirty-fourth District in 1902, and re-elected from the same district November 6, 1906.

 

  35.  HOWARD ANTHONY BROUGHTON (Republican)  was born at Santa Cruz, Califonria, October 6, 1863; he was educated in the public schools of this State, and graduated from Hastings College of the Law, at San Francisco; he took up the practice of his profession as an attorney, and now resides at Pomona; in 1900 he was elected member of the Assembly from Los Angeles County, and was elected State Senator from the Thirty-fifth District, November 8, 1904.

 

   36. CHARLES WEBSTER BELL (Republican)  was born at Albany, New York, June 11, 1858, and educated in the public schools; in September of 1877 he came to California, and is now in the real estate business at Pasadena; he has held the positions of Deputy County Clerk and clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County, and in 1898 was elected County Clerk; elected State Senator from the Thirty-sixth District, on the Non-Partisan and Democrat tickets, November 6, 1906.

 

   37.   HENRY EDWIN CARTER (Republican)  was born in Tuolumne County, California, September 26, 1865, and educated in the common schools and at business college; he became a lawyer, being admitted to practice in 1889; in 1895 he was appointed deputy by Attorney-General W. F. Fitzgerald, and held that position until 1900; in November of that year he was elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventy-fifth District, a portion of the city of Los Angeles, was re-elected in 1902, and served as speaker pro tem, of the Assembly during the session of 1903; elected State Senator from the Thirty-seventh District, November 8, 1904.

 

   38.  HERBERT S. G. McCARTNEY  (Republican)  was born near Springfield, Illinois, October 26, 1865, and received his education in the grammar and high schools of his native State; after graduating he took up school teaching, which he followed until 1889, when he came to California; he worked on a farm in Glenn County for five years, then was admitted to practice law in 1895 and made his home in Los Angeles County, where he served as Deputy District Attorney; was elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventy-second District in 1902, and re-elected from the same district in 1904; elected State Senator from the Thirty-eighth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   39.  JOHN NELSON ANDERSON (Republican)  was born in Peterborough County, Province of Ontario, Canada; after graduating from the high school at Oakwood, Ontario, and from the Model School at Lindsay, in the same province, he taught school for six years; he then took a four-year course at Trinity University, Ontario, then a five-year course at Osgoode Hall Law School, Ontario, and received his diplomas as barrister and solicitor in 1892; he came to California the same year, arriving September 2d, and was admitted to practice in the courts of this State; he made his home in Santa Ana, Orange County, where he has served on the Board of Education, in the Chamber of Commerce, and as a Trustee of the Whittier State School; elected State Senator from the Thirty-ninth District, November 8, 1904.

 

    40.  LEROY A. WRIGHT (Republican)  was born at New London, Indiana, February 10, 1863; he attended the grammar and high schools, and completed his education in the State Normal School at Emporia, Kansas; he followed newspaper work for about ten years, and in 1885 founded the Western School Journal; in September of 1887 he came to California, and is now practicing the profession of attorney at law at San Diego, where he has served as a Park Commissioner and as Director of the Carnegie Library; in 1902 he was elected Director of the San Diego Library, and was elected State Senator from the Fortieth District, November 6, 1906.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ATTACHES OF THE SENATE.

(See page 407)

 

   LEWIS A. HILBORN (Republican) was born at Suisun, California, but now resides in San Francisco, where he is a practicing attorney; he was educated in the public schools, at the University of California, and Hastings College of the Law; he was elected Secretary of the Senate at the session of 1905, and was re-elected to the same position, January 7, 1907.

 

   J. W. KAVANAGH (Republican)  was born at Red Dog, California, November 15, 1867; he graduated from the Vallejo High School in 1882, and is a newspaperman and accountant; from 1883 to 1889 he was deputy postmaster at Vallejo, and was secretary of the Vallejo Board of Education from 1898 to 1904; from 1889 to 1893 he was a clerk in the Mare Island Navy Yard, was editor of the Vallejo Morning News from 1896 to 1905, and statistician and compiler of Solano County resources in 1906; served as Assistant Engrossing Clerk of the Senate in the session of 1897; in 1907 was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Senate.

 

   DONN J. SHIELDS (Republican)  was born at Stilesville, Indiana, February 20, 1882; when twelve years of age he came to California, and finished his education in the high school at Los Angeles, which city is now his home; his line of work is that of stenographer and newspaperman; he served through several sessions of the Legislature as a messenger in both houses, and was an assistant at the desk of the Senate in the regular session of 1905 and the special session of 1906; was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Senate at the session of 1907, and after adjournment was appointed as a clerk in the office of the Surveyor-General.

 

   J. LOUIS MARTIN (Republican)  was born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, September 25, 1855, and was educated in the public schools.  He came to Vallejo, California, September 15, 1869, and for five years was a naval apprentice at Mare Island.  In 1886 he took up railroading as a locomotive fireman in the employ of the Southern Pacific Company, was promoted to engineer, and after occupying various positions became a passenger conductor.  For a time he lived in Arizona, and in 1889 was elected a Member of the Assembly to represent Pima County.  His residence is now in the city of Oakland, California.  On July 24, 1900 he was appointed by Governor Gage as a Trustee of the Napa State Hospital to fill out the unexpired term of A. W. Barrett, and served until May 20, 1902.  In January, 1899, he was elected Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, and has been re-elected to the same position at each succeeding session of the Legislature.

 

   CASSIUS H. DARLING (Republican)  is a native of Worcester County, Massachusetts, a graduate of the Boston English High School, and a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church; in 1861 he enlisted in the United States Volunteers from Massachusetts, and served in the army until 1865; in 1875 he came to California, arriving June 28th, and now resides at Fall River Mills, in Shasta County; elected Chaplain of the Senate January 7, 1907.

 

 

 

 

 

MEMBERS OF THE ASSEMBLY.

 

THIRTY-SEVENTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE—1907.

 

(Party designation following name shows political belief; where more than one designation is given it indicates additional party nomination by which member was elected to present term.)

 

 

 

   1.  THOMAS J. T. BERRY (Republican)  was born at New Oregon, Iowa, January 2, 1858, and educated in the public schools of Iowa and Kansas; he took up his residence in California in Del Norte County, October 11, 1878, where he engaged in farming and in the livery business at Crescent City; held office as School Trustee and City Trustee; elected Member of the Assembly from the First District, November 6, 1900; again elected November 6, 1906.

 

   2.  CHARLES PRYDE CUTTEN (Republican) was born at Eureka, Humboldt County, California, May 8, 1875; was educated in the public schools and graduated from the Leland Stanford Junior University in 1899, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in law; is an attorney at law, with residence at Eureka; elected Member of the Assembly from the Second District, November 6, 1906.

 

   3.  JOHN WILBURT McCLELLAN (Republican)  was born at Bridgeville, Humboldt County, California, January 26, 1877; he was educated in the public schools and at business college, and is in the stock-raising business at Bridgeville; elected Member of the Assembly from the Third District, November 6, 1906.

 

   4.  NATHAN A. CORNISH (Republican)  was born at Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana, and came to California in 1895; he is an attorney at law at Alturas, Modoc County; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fourth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   5.  JOHN W. FINNEY (Republican)  was born at Eden, Licking County, Ohio, in 1846; received an academic education; settled in California in 1899; he is a lawyer by profession but for several years has been engaged exclusively in mining, with residence at Downieville, Sierra county; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   6.  WILLIAM D. L. HELD (Republican)  was born in San Francisco, October 24, 1874, and educated in the grammar and high schools of that city; is a lawyer, with residence at Ukiah, Mendocino County, and is president of the Board of Trustees of the Ukiah Public Library; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixth District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   7.  WILLIAM JAMES COSTAR (Republican)  was born at Dubuque, Iowa, March 26, 1859, and received a high school education; he is engaged in the real estate and insurance business at Chico, Butte County; elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventh District, November 6, 1906.

 

   8.  ARTHUR H.  HEWITT (Republican) was born in Windsor County, Vermont, May 10, 1858, and graduated from the normal school of that State; took up his residence in California in September, 1878, and is a lawyer at Yuba City, Sutter County; he was a member of the County Board of Education for ten years, and County Clerk of Sutter County for three terms; elected Member of the Assembly from the Eighth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   9.  GEORGE WASHINGTON ROOT (Republican)  was born at Santa Rosa, California, September 9, 1862; he was educated in the public schools and took up mining, with residence at Grass Valley, Nevada County; was Assistant Chief Wharfinger of the Port of San Francisco from 1892 to 1894, and Chief Wharfinger from 1895 to 1898; was elected Clerk of the Supreme Court in November, 1898; elected Member of the Assembly from the Ninth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   10. ERNEST STRATTON BIRDSALL (Republican) was born at Sacramento, June 27, 1876, and educated in the public schools of that city, afterwards taking a course in the College of Agriculture, University of California; is an olive-grower, with residence at East Auburn, Placer County; elected Member of the Assembly from the Tenth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   11. GEORGE FREDERICK SNYDER (Republican)  was born at Murphys, Calaveras County, California, February 17, 1880, and educated in the public schools; admitted to practice law September 16, 1903; was Deputy District Attorney of Calaveras County for 1905 and 1906; elected Member of the Assembly from the Eleventh District, November 6, 1906.

 

   12. FRANK HENRY SMYTHE (Democrat) is a native of Paynesville, Ohio; in 1872 he came to California, and lives at Middletown, Lake County, where he is engaged in farming; is self-educated; in 1898 he was elected a County Supervisor; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twelfth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   13. STANLEY W. COLLISTER (Republican)  was born at Carbon, Wyoming, June 13, 1874; he has been a resident of California since 1878, and was educated in the common schools of this State; is engaged in the insurance business at Occidental, Sonoma County; elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirteenth District, November 6, 1906.

 

  14. HENRY W. A. WESKE (Republican) is a native of Germany, born April 26, 1877; he came to California in 1885, and attended the public schools of San Francisco and Santa Rosa; was admitted to practice law, and held the office of Deputy District Attorney of Sonoma County from 1899 to 1903; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fourteenth District, November 6, 1906.

 

  15. FRANKLIN WILLIAM BUSH (Republican)  was born at Dubuque, Iowa, July 1, 1854; received a common school and business college education, and also studied telegraphy and mining; he came to California in 1876, and is now engaged in horticulture, with residence in Napa; served on Board of Managers of Napa State Hospital; was Supervisor of Napa County for two terms; was captain in National Guard for eight years and retired with that rank after twelve years' continuous military service; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifteenth District, November 6, 1906.

 

  16. JAMES I. McCONNELL (Democrat)  was born in Tennessee, and received a common and high school education; came to California with his parents in 1851; is a bank cashier in Woodland, Yolo county; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixteenth District, November 4, 1902; again elected November 6, 1906.

 

  17. GROVE LAWRENCE JOHNSON (Republican) was born at Syracuse, New York, March 27, 1841, and received a grammar school education; was admitted to practice law in 1862; came to California in 1863, and settled in Sacramento in May, 1865; was swamp land clerk for the Board of Supervisors from 1866 to 1873; was Member of the Assembly from Sacramento County, 1877-78, and State Senator from Sacramento County during the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth sessions; served as Representative in Congress from the Second California District, 1895-97; appointed Director of State Board of Agriculture in 1899 and reappointed in 1901; elected Member of the Assembly from Sacramento County in 1898, and re-elected in 1900; elected from the Seventeenth District, November 4, 1902; again elected November 6, 1906.

 

  18. FRANK J. O'BRIEN (Republican)  was born in Sacramento, California, January 29, 1875, and received a private school education; became an attorney at law; was clerk in the District Attorney's office for seven years, and chief deputy in the law department of the California State Library for five years; elected Member of the Assembly from the Eighteenth District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

  19.. EDWARD J. LYNCH (Republican)  was born in Franklin County, New York, June 1, 1860, and educated in the public schools; came to California April 25, 1879; is a farmer, with residence at Walsh Station, Sacramento County; elected Member of the Assembly from the Nineteenth District, November 6, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

    20. FRANK RAYMOND DEVLIN (Republican)  was born in Windsor, Canada, October 27, 1868, but was brought to California in September, 1870; was graduated from the Vallejo High School, and became a lawyer; elected District Attorney of Solano County for four years, in November, 1895; re-elected to same position in November, 1899; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twentieth District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   21. EDWARD IGNATIUS BUTLER (Republican) was born at Monterey, California, November 21, 1874; he received a grammar school education, finishing in private schools, and graduated from Hastings College of the Law; he took up his residence and practice as an attorney in San Rafael, Marin County; was commissioned second lieutenant of Company D, Fifth Infantry, N.G.C., September, 1906; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twenty-first District, November 6, 1906.

 

   22. PALMERSTON CORNICK CAMPBELL (Republican) was born at Suisun, California, May 3, 1868; he received his education in the Suisun schools, Napa College and the University of California, and graduated from the Northwestern Medical College, February 20, 1890; is practicing his profession as physician and surgeon at Richmond, Contra Costa County; in January, 1905, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel and aid-de-camp, staff of the commander-in-chief, N.G.C.; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twenty-second District, November 6, 1906.

 

   23. ROBERT LEWIS BEARDSLEE (Republican) was born in San Joaquin County, California, July 12, 1868; he was educated in the common schools and in the San Joaquin Valley College and later admitted to practice law; was City Attorney of Stockton in 1905 and 1906; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twenty-third District, November 8, 1904, and re-elected November 6, 1906; chosen as Speaker of the Assembly for the session of 1907.

 

   24. ARTHUR ELWOOD PERCIVAL (Republican) was born in Rock County, Minnesota, May 26, 1875, and educated in the common schools of Minnesota and South Dakota; he came to California in November, 1891, studied law at Lodi, San Joaquin County, and was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of California and the United States District Court; was elected Justice of the Peace at Lodi, November 6, 1898, and again to the same office, November 4, 1902; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twenty-fourth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   25. RICHARD KEITH WHITMORE (Republican) was born in the State of New Jersey, May 2, 1853; he removed to California in October, 1856, and was educated in the grammar schools of this State and in the San Joaquin Valley College; is a farmer near Ceres, Stanislaus County; is colonel of the Sixth Infantry, N.G.C.; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twenty-fifth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   26. EDWARD NORTON BAXTER (Democrat) was born at Sonora, California, April 27, 1862, and received a common school and business college education; is a bookkeeper with residence at Wawona, Mariposa County; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twenty-sixth District, November 4, 1902; was clerk of the minority in the Assembly during the session of 1905; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twenty-sixth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   27. PETER WALLACE FORBES (Democrat) was born on Prince Edward Island, November 23, 1850, and received a common school education; came to California, August 23, 1868, and settled in Inyo County in 1869; in 1882 was admitted to practice law, and is now engaged in his profession at Independence; was elected District Attorney of Inyo Couny in 1886, and re-elected to the same office in 1890 and 1894; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twenty-seventh District, November 6, 1906.

 

   28. PETER JOSEPH KELLY (Republican, Democrat, and Union Labor) was born in the city of San Francisco, March 12, 1865, and educated in the public schools; is a stereotyper by trade; has been employed in the License Collector's office in San Francisco, as a clerk in the office of the County Clerk, as a deputy in the Sheriff's office, and is now a deputy in the U. S. Internal Revenue office at San Francisco; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twenty-eighth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   29. JOHN A. CULLEN (Republican, Democrat, and Union Labor) was born in San Francisco, August 18, 1875, and educated in the public schools; is a blacksmith by trade and is employed in the commissary department of the San Francisco Fire Department; elected Member of the Assembly from the Twenty-ninth District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

30. JAMES A. WILSON (Republican and Union Labor) was born in San Francisco, January 3, 1872, and educated in the public schools; is a woodworker by trade; is cashier in the office of the County Clerk; was employed in the School Department from 1901 to 1905; elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirtieth District, November 6, 1906.

 

  31. DANIEL J. TOOMEY (Republican and Union Labor) was born in San Francisco, October 20, 1876, and educated in the public schools; is a merchant in his native city; elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-first District, November 6, 1906.

 

  32. PATRICK JOSEPH BOYLE (Republican and Union Labor) was born at Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1876; came to California when seven years of age, and received his education in the public schools of San Francisco; is an ironworker by trade, and now a deputy collector in the U. S. Internal Revenue office in San Francisco; elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-second District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

  33. PAUL FLAMINIO FRATESSA (Republican and Union Labor) was born in Switzerland, May 17, 1883, but was brought to California when only one year of age; was educated in the grammar schools of San Francisco, and is the owner of a newspaper route in that city; elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-third District, November 6, 1906.

 

  34. JOHN McKEON (Democrat and Independence League) is a native of Ireland, born June 11, 1849; he came to the United States in 1870 and reached California in March, 1873, and is a stevedore by occupation; was inspector for the Board of Public Works of San Francisco during the year 1902; elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-fourth District, November 6, 1906.

 

  35. FRED HUGO HARTMANN (Republican and Union Labor) was born December 14, 1868, in San Francisco, and educated in the public schools of that city; is a civil service inspector of construction with City Engineer; during the bubonic plague investigation in San Francisco was official disinfector for the United States Health Commission, the California State Board of Health, and the San Francisco Board of Health; elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-fifth District, November 6, 1906.

 

  36. JOHN WESSLING (Republican) was born in the city of San Francisco July 10, 1875, and educated in the public schools; is a roofer by trade; never held any public position until he was elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-sixth District, on the Independence League ticket, November 6, 1906.

 

  37. DENNIS W. BARRY (Republican and Union Labor) was born in San Francisco June 28, 1881, and educated in the grammar schools there; is engaged in the mercantile business; elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-seventh District, November 6, 1906.

 

  38. SAMUEL HOUSTON BECKETT (Republican and Union Labor) was born in New Jersey, June 8, 1869; he came to California in 1880, and is now a business man in San Francisco; elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-eighth District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   39. CHARLES MORRIS FISHER (Republican) was born at Wilmington, Delaware, September 18, 1867; received his education in the public schools and in Wilmington Academy; came to California in 1886, and is a wholesale liquor merchant in San Francisco; elected Member of the Assembly from the Thirty-ninth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   40.  HENRY THOMPSON (Republican and Union Labor) is a native of London, England, born October 13, 1859; received a National School education; came to California in 1883; is a master painter by trade; he at present occupies the position of collector for the Board of State Harbor Commissioners for San Francisco; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fortieth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   41.  NATHAN COOMBS COGHLAN (Republican and Democrat) was born in San Francisco, April 5, 1875; is a self-educated man, and an attorney by profession; elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-first District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   42.  SAMUEL T. KOHLMAN (Republican and Union Labor) was born in San Francisco in 1867, and educated in the public schools of that city; is a clerk by occupation; has held the appointments of Deputy Recorder and Clerk of the Police Court; elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-second District, November 6, 1906.

 

   43.  DOMINICK JOSEPH BEBAN (Republican and Union Labor) was born May 16, 1872 in San Francisco and educated in the public schools of that city; is a printing pressman by trade, and now holds the position of Deputy Sheriff in San Francisco; elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-third District, November 6, 1906.

 

   44.  MEL VOGEL (Republican, Democrat, and Union Labor) is a native of Germany, born December 15, 1848; educated at the Gymnasium, Baden; came to this country in 1870, and arrived in California in 1872; was a merchant for a time, but for the last thirty years has been engaged in the daily newspaper business; elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-fourth District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   45.  LOUIS STROHL (Republican and Union Labor) was born in San Francisco, January 22, 1869, and educated in the grammar schools; has been a Deputy Assessor and is now Assistant Chief Wharfinger for the Board of State Harbor Commissioners for San Francisco; elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-fifth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   46.  EDWARD KEATING STROBRIDGE (Republican) was born at Truckee, Nevada County, California, June 8, 1869, and received a public school and business college education; he is a fruit-grower, with residence at Hayward; elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-sixth District, November 8, 1904, and re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   47.  FRANK OTIS (Republican) was born in San Francisco, November 18, 1852; he was educated in the public schools and the University of California, from which he graduated with the University gold medal and the degrees of A.B. and M.A.; admitted to practice law in 1876; was a member of the Board of Education of the city of Alameda for eight years, during six of which he served as president; was also a member of the Board of Freeholders of the same city; elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-seventh District, November 6, 1906.

 

   48.  PHILIP M. WALSH (Republican) was born in San Francisco, May 1, 1870, and received his education in the public schools of Alameda County; he is an attorney at law by profession, with residence in Oakland; has held the position of shorthand reporter in the Alameda County courts, and Deputy District Attorney for six years; elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-eighth District, November 4, 1902, re-elected November 8, 1904, and again re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   49.  JOHN JOSEPH BURKE (Republican) was born in Oakland, California, July 19, 1878; he received his education at St. Joseph's Institute, West Oakland, and at the Santa Clara College, from which institution he graduated; in 1904 he was admitted to practice law, and took up his profession in his native city; elected Member of the Assembly from the Forty-ninth District, November 8, 1904, and re-elected November 6, 1906; died, January 19, 1907.

 

   50.  JOHN WALTER STETSON (Republican) was born in Fruitvale, Alameda County, California, September 24, 1871; he received his education in the public schools and the University of California and is an attorney at law, with residence in Oakland; was elected to the office of City Justice for that city in 1898, and again in 1902; on August 1, 1903, he was appointed attorney for the State Commission in Lunacy; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fiftieth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   51. GEORGE JACOB HANS (Republican and Union Labor) was born in San Francisco, April 5, 1868, and received a public school and business college education; he is an accountant, with residence in Fruitvale, Alameda County; is a member of the Board of Trustees of Bray School District and of Fruitvale Union High School, and secretary of both bodies; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-first District, November 6, 1906.

 

   52.  JOHN MORTON ESHLEMAN (Republican and Union Labor) was born at Villa Ridge, Illinois, June 14, 1876; came to California March 2, 1896; he graduated from the University of California with the degrees of B.A. and M.A., and is an attorney at law, with residence in Berkeley; for two and one half years he was Deputy Commissioner in the Bureau of Labor Statistics; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-second District, November 6, 1906.

 

   53.  RICHARD HENRY JURY (Republican) was born in Michigan, April 23, 1868; received his education in the public schools, and learned the printer's trade; he is now an editor and publisher, located at San Mateo; in 1894 he was elected Clerk and Assessor of San Mateo city, and has been elected for each succeeding term since that time; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-third District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   54.  HARRY CLIFFORD LUCAS (Republican) was born at Santa Cruz, California, April 20, 1879; he is a graduate of Leland Stanford Junior University and a lawyer by profession, with residence at Santa Cruz; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-fourth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   55.  JOHN TURNER HIGGINS (Republican) was born in Hutchinson, Minnesota, September 1, 1868; finished his education in the University of Minnesota;  came to California, August 16, 1894, and is a physician practicing at Morgan Hill, Santa Clara County; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-fifth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   56.  GUY WHITMAN SMITH (Republican) was born at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, August 10, 1871; he was educated in the public schools of Omaha and at the Cotner University, Lincoln; he came to California in August, 1895, and is an attorney at law, practicing at San José, Santa Clara County; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-sixth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   57.  CHARLES C. SPALDING (Republican) was born in Bremer County, Iowa, November 5, 1864; he was educated in the county schools and the high school at Waverly, Iowa; he taught school at first, afterwards engaging in the mercantile business; he came to this State some eight years ago and is now cashier of the Bank of Sunnyvale, California; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-seventh District, November 6, 1906.

 

   58.  JOHN OSCAR DAVIS (Democrat) was born in Indiana, July 7, 1872, and attended the public schools; came to California in June, 1900; he occupies the position of State Deputy Head Consul of the Modern Woodmen of America; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-eighth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   59.  JOHN JAY WYATT (Republican) was born at Yuba City, Sutter County, California, January 28, 1868; he was educated in the common schools of California and later took a partial course at the University of Denver, Colorado; he was admitted to practice law in 1890 and has been City Attorney of Salinas in almost continuous service since 1891; elected Member of the Assembly from the Fifty-ninth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   60.  WILBER F. CHANDLER (Republican) was born in De Witt County, Illinois, April 8, 1855, and received a common school education; he came to California January 6, 1889, and is a vineyardist, with residence at Selma, Fresno County; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixtieth District, November 6, 1900; again elected November 8, 1904, and re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   61.  ALEXANDER M. DREW (Republican) was born in Stephenson County, Illinois, January 17, 1857, and educated in the public schools; he came to California in 1877, and took a State Normal School course; was admitted to the bar in 1888, and is practicing his profession in Fresno; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixth-first District, November 4, 1902; re-elected November 8, 1904, and again re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   62.  WILLIAM L. McGUIRE (Republican) was born in New York State June 23, 1873; he has resided in California since 1885; he graduated from Leland Stanford Junior University and is an attorney at law, with residence at Hanford, Kings County; he has occupied the position of United States Commissioner for the Southern District of California; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixty-second District, November 6, 1906.

 

   63.  WARREN M. JOHN (Republican) was born in Allen County, Kansas, November 27, 1874; he came to California in 1887 and was educated in the public schools; is a journalist by profession, with residence in San Luis Obispo; elected Member of the Assembly from San Luis Obispo County in 1900; in 1902 appointed Trustee of the California Polytechnic School; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixty-third District, November 4, 1902; was appointed Deputy United States Internal Revenue Collector in 1904; re-elected Member of the Assembly November 8, 1904, and again re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   64.  ELBERT MADISON PYLE (Republican) was born in Butler, Bates County, Missouri, November 26, 1846, and received a public school education; he came to California in 1883, and settled in Santa Barbara, where he engaged in the mercantile business; was secretary of the County Board of Education for four years; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixty-fourth District, November 4, 1902; re-elected November 8, 1904, and again re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   65.  GEORGE LINCOLN SACKETT (Republican) was born in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California, January 3, 1865; he was educated in the public schools of this State and in the Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; he became a school teacher, with residence at Ventura, California, where he was a member of the County Board of Education for fourteen years and was County Superintendent of Schools from 1895 to 1907; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixty-fifth District, November 6, 1906; on May 1, 1907, he was appointed Secretary of the State Text-Book Committee.

 

   66.  HARRY W. McMULLEN (Republican) was born at Dunkirk, Indiana, October 18, 1869, and educated in the common schools; he arrived in California May 3, 1893, and is a blacksmith, with residence at Bakersfield, Kern County; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixty-sixth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   67.  GIDEON S. CASE (Republican) was born at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, June 13, 1847, and received an academic education, graduating from the University of Michigan, March 1, 1870; is a physician and surgeon, but retired from practice; enlisted in the Volunteer Service of the United States August 14, 1862, and served three years; he came to California in 1902, and is located in Pasadena; he is a United States Pension Examiner, and has been a member of the Pasadena City Council for two terms; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixty-seventh District, November 6, 1906.

 

   68.  PRESCOTT FRANKLIN COGSWELL (Republican and Non-partisan) was born at Thamesford, Ontario, October 23, 1859; he was educated in the Ingersoll, Ontario, high school and Albert University, Belleville, Ontario; he came to California December 25, 1883, and is a horticulturist and banker, with residence at El Monte, Los Angeles County; has been secretary of the Union High School Board for six years; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixty-eighth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   69.  NEWTON WARNER THOMPSON (Republican, Democrat and Non-Partisan) was born at Pulaski, New York State, September 16, 1865; he was educated in the common schools and at Pulaski Academy; came to California in 1885 and is an examiner of titles, with residence at Alhambra, Los Angeles County; is President of the City Board of Trustees and President of the City High School Board; elected Member of the Assembly from the Sixty-ninth District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   70.  WALTER RANSOME LEEDS (Republican) was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 19, 1876; he came to California in 1884, and was educated in the public schools of Los Angeles; is an attorney at law by profession, and is Treasurer of the Whittier State School; elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventieth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   71.  PHILIP ACKLEY STANTON (Republican and Democrat) was born at Cleveland, Ohio, February 4, 1868, and educated in the common schools; he came to California in 1886, and located in Los Angeles, where he is engaged in the real estate business; elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventy-first District, November 4, 1902; re-elected November 8, 1904; again re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   72.  FRED E. PIERCE (Republican) was born at Walton, New York, August 21, 1866, and educated in the common schools; he took up his residence in California, November 19, 1881, and is an undertaker, in business at Los Angeles; elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventy-second District, November 6, 1906.

 

   73.  JACOB P. TRANSUE (Republican) was born at Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1866, and educated in the common schools; he came to California November 15, 1896, and is engaged in business in Los Angeles; was Deputy County Auditor from 1905 to 1906, and was appointed Building and Loan Commissioner January 7, 1907; elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventy-third District, November 4, 1902, re-elected November 8, 1904, and again re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   74.  ROBSON ORD BELL  (Republican) is a native of England, born 1877, but was brought to California when four years of age; he received a common school education and learned the druggist business; he was Deputy City Assessor of Los Angeles for four years, and Deputy County Auditor of Los Angeles County for two years; is now chief clerk and cashier of the Motor Vehicle Department in the office of the Secretary of State; elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventy-fourth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   75.  PERCY VERNON HAMMON (Republican) was born at Spring Hill, Iowa, August 28, 1873; he was educated in the public schools of Topeka, Kansas; came to California in 1894; took a business college course at Los Angeles, and graduated from Hastings College of the Law, University of California; was member of the Los Angeles Board of Education, 1902-1903, and of the City Council, 1904-1905; elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventh-fifth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   76.  WILLIAM FLETCHER LEMON (Republican) was born at Warsaw, Missouri, May 18, 1872; he attended the public schools of Missouri, and finished his education in Harwood College, Orange County, California; he came to this State in 1890 and is a railroad passenger train conductor, with residence at San Bernardino; elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventy-sixth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   77.  CLYDE BISHOP (Republican) was born at Chicago, Illinois, My 23, 1874; he came to California in 1882, attended the common schools, studied law, and was admitted to practice April 15, 1902; his residence is at Santa Ana, Orange County; he served as corporal with the Seventh California Regiment, United States Volunteers, in the war with Spain; elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventy-seventh District, November 6, 1906.

 

   78.  MIGUEL ESTUDILLO (Republican) was born in San Bernardino, California, September 20, 1870; he was educated in the common schools and in Santa Clara College and is an attorney at law, with residence at Riverside, Riverside County; elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventy-eighth District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

   79.  WILLIAM FRENCH LUDINGTON (Republican) was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2, 1868, and educated in the public schools of his native city; he came to California June 30, 1890, and is in business at San Diego, California; was for a time Postmaster at Pacific Beach and also at La Jolla, in this State; also filled an unexpired term as Alderman of San Diego and an unexpired term as Councilman; elected Member of the Assembly from the Seventy-ninth District, November 6, 1906.

 

   80.  PERCY A. JOHNSON (Republican) was born at Bangor, Maine, May 19, 1868, where he received a high school education; he came to California in 1884, and is engaged in farming near Fallbrook, San Diego County; elected Member of the Assembly from the Eightieth District, November 8, 1904; re-elected November 6, 1906.

 

 

 

 

 

ATTACHES OF THE ASSEMBLY.

 

   CLIO LOWELL LLOYD (Republican) was born in Illinois in 1864, but when a small child came with his parents to this State; he was educated in the public schools and at private college, and took up teaching for a livelihood, which occupation he pursued for eight years, until he went into the newspaper publishing business and also operated in real estate; he is at present interested in the publication of the Santa Barbara Daily Press; in 1893 he was chosen as a Commissioner from Southern California to the Columbian Exposition, at Chicago; in December, 1905, he was elected a member of the Santa Barbara City Board of Education, for a term of four years; he was first elected Chief Clerk of the Assembly in the session of 1901; and has been re-elected to the same position by each succeeding Legislature, making the longest unbroken record of service of any former Chief Clerk.

 

   THOMAS G. WALKER (Republican) was born at Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, California, January 19, 1867, and was educated in the public schools of his native town; he is a farmer by occupation, with residence at Watsonville; Assistant Clerk of the Assembly during the sessions of 1901, 1903, 1905, and 1907.

 

   JOHN THOMAS STAFFORD (Republican) was born in the city of San Francisco, July 22, 1858, and in 1859 removed with his parents to Sacramento, which city has since been his home; he attended the grammar schools, and then went into the blacksmithing department of the Southern Pacific Company, where he worked for seven years, and went from there to Wells, Fargo & Co., where he was employed for six years; he was appointed watchman of the State Printing Office in 1893 by State Printer A. J. Johnston, and served through his administration and through part of that of State Printer W. W. Shannon; in 1904 he went into the office of Secretary of State C. F. Curry, and remained until 1906, when he resigned to accept his present position of Special Agent for the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company; he was first elected Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly at the session of 1903; in 1905 he was re-elected to the same position, and was again re-elected at the beginning of the regular session, January 7, 1907.

 

   BEN COHN (Republican) was born in California, February 24, 1874, and educated in the public schools of his native State; is now residing in Los Angeles; Chief Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly during the sessions of 1905 and 1907.

 

   PATRICK HENRY WILLIS (Independent) was born in the State of Illinois, August 22, 1863, and was educated in the public schools; came to California in 1879, and took a course in the University of the Pacific, afterwards entering the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church; his present charge is in the town of Quincy, Plumas County; elected Chaplain of the Assembly at the session of 1907.

 

 

 

 

Transcribed Marilyn R. Pankey.

Source: “California Blue Book or State Roster – Biographical Sketches” Pages 359-407.  Published by C. F. Curry, Secretary of State, Sacramento, CA 1907.

© 2017  Marilyn R. Pankey.

 

 

 


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