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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.
The 1849 California gubernatorial election was held on November 13, 1849, to elect the first governor of California. Peter Hardeman Burnett won in a five-way race. Burnett was subsequently sworn in as governor on December 20, 1849, with the military governor, Bennet C. Riley, ceding de facto executive authority to him.
Military governors ruled California until 1849, when efforts led by Bennet C. Riley led to the creation of the Constitution of California at the Constitutional Convention of Monterey and the establishment of civilian rule with the election of Peter Hardeman Burnett as the first governor of California. Soon after, California was admitted as a state.
Gray Davis, the 37th governor of California, was the second governor in American history to be recalled by voters. ... Lt. Governor [b] 1 Peter Hardeman Burnett
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.
This year is the fifth anniversary of Governor Gavin Newsom’s formal apology to Native Americans for a war of calculated genocide beginning with the call by our first governor, Peter Burnett ...
On December 20, 1849, Peter Hardeman Burnett became the first Governor of the state of California. [12] Burnett was a proponent of the state's exclusionary policies towards foreign miners, and in particular Chinese ones (he would later support the Chinese Exclusion Act , and also pushed for blacks to leave the state of California or face public ...
A year ago, California approved AB 2022, by Assemblymember James C. Ramos, which banned the “S” -word as a name for geographic features and locations within California. Central Valley and ...