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  2. Peter Hardeman Burnett - Wikipedia

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    Peter Hardeman Burnett (November 15, 1807 – May 17, 1895) was an American politician who served as the first elected governor of California from December 20, 1849, to January 9, 1851. Burnett was elected Governor almost one year before California's admission to the Union as the 31st state in September 1850. [a]

  3. Act for the Government and Protection of Indians - Wikipedia

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    The Act for the Government and Protection of Indians (Chapter 133, Cal. Stats., April 22, 1850), nicknamed the Indian Indenture Act was enacted by the first session of the California State Legislature and signed into law by the 1st Governor of California, Peter Hardeman Burnett.

  4. List of governors of California before 1850 - Wikipedia

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    Don Pío Pico, last Governor of Alta California. Below is a list of the governors of early California (1769–1850), before its admission as the 31st U.S. state. First explored by Gaspar de Portolá, with colonies established at San Diego and Monterey, California was a remote, sparsely-settled Spanish province of New Spain.

  5. California Statehood Act - Wikipedia

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    The California Statehood Act, officially An Act for the Admission of the State of California into the Union and also known as the California Admission Act, is the federal legislation that admitted California to the United States as the thirty-first state. Passed in 1850 by the 31st United States Congress, the law made California one of only a ...

  6. List of governors of California - Wikipedia

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    Gavin Newsom, the 40th and current governor of California. The governor of California is the head of government of California, whose responsibilities include making annual State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that state laws are enforced.

  7. Interim government of California - Wikipedia

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    Governor Burnett stated that: "There was not the slightest ground for the charge that the people of California desired to establish an independent government." [19] In 1850, Congress finally approved California statehood, as part of what became known as the "Compromise of 1850." President Millard Fillmore signed the bill into law on September 9 ...

  8. Politics of California before 1900 - Wikipedia

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    The short-lived declaration of an independent California Republic in 1846 was followed 25 days later by the onset of the Mexican–American War.After the resulting conquest of Alta California by United States military forces and American volunteers, California was administered by the U.S. military from 1846 to 1850.

  9. Impeachment in California - Wikipedia

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    Governor Burnett. On February 15, 1850, Governor Peter Hardeman Burnett (a Democrat elected the state's inaugural governor on November 13, 1849) issued a proclamation to suspend the city of San Francisco from further sales of city lands until laws could be passed to settle controversy as to whether the San Francisco prefect and the prefect ...