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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]
A majority of the Supreme Court has been Catholic since 2005. The first Catholic Supreme Court appointment was Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, appointed by Andrew Jackson in 1836. [83] The second, Edward Douglass White, joined the court in 1894 and was elevated to chief justice in 1910. He was joined on the Court by Catholic Joseph McKenna in ...
Gray Davis, the 37th governor of California, was the second governor in American history to be recalled by voters. The shortest tenure was that of Milton Latham, who served only five days before being elected to fill a vacant United States Senate seat.
Culbert Levy Olson (November 7, 1876 – April 13, 1962) was an American lawyer and politician. A Democratic Party member, Olson was involved in Utah and California politics. . He was elected to both the Utah State Senate and California State Senate serving one term in ea
The 2003 California recall special election was the goal of the "Dump Davis" campaign and constituted the first gubernatorial recall in Californian history and only the second in U.S. history. Later, the unsuccessful recall of Scott Walker of Wisconsin in 2012 would be the third and the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election of Gavin ...
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.
In June 1976, Governor Jerry Brown appointed Reynoso to the California Court of Appeal as an associate justice. [2] He was the first Latino appointed to the Court. [5] In 1981, Governor Brown elevated Reynoso to the California Supreme Court, succeeding the retiring Mathew O. Tobriner.
The Governor could appoint justices in the event of a vacancy on the Court in between the elections. In 1910, elections for the Supreme Court became nonpartisan. [8] In 1934, the state implemented the present system of gubernatorial appointment with retention elections, replacing the direct election of justices. [7]