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Lieutenant governors of the State of California No. Lieutenant Governor Term in office Party Election Governor [a] 1 John McDougal (1818–1866) December 20, 1849 [b] – January 9, 1851 (succeeded to governor) Democratic: 1849 Peter Hardeman Burnett (resigned January 9, 1851) 2 David C. Broderick (1820–1859) January 9, 1851 – January 8 ...
The 1855 California lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on 5 September 1855 in order to elect the lieutenant governor of California. Know Nothing nominee Robert M. Anderson defeated Democratic nominee and incumbent lieutenant governor Samuel Purdy. [1]
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.
Governors of the State of California No. Governor Term in office Party Election Lt. Governor [b] 1 Peter Hardeman Burnett (1807–1895) [5] [6] [7] December 20, 1849 [8] [c] – January 9, 1851 (resigned) [d] Nonpartisan [e] 1849 John McDougal: 2 John McDougal (1818–1866) [10] [11] [12] January 9, 1851 [13] – January 8, 1852 (did not run ...
California has had 41 lieutenant governors and five acting lieutenant governors since achieving statehood in 1850. The current lieutenant governor is Eleni Kounalakis, a Democrat who was sworn into office on January 7, 2019. [1] She is the first woman elected to the office in California history.
John Bigler (January 8, 1805 – November 29, 1871) was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat. A Democrat, he served as the third governor of California from 1852 to 1856 and was the first California governor to complete an entire term in office, as well as the first to win re-election.
In particular, state voters voted Know-Nothings into the California State Legislature, and elected J. Neely Johnson as governor in the 1855 general elections. During the 1859 general elections, Lecompton Democrats voted Latham, who had briefly lived in the American South, as their nominee for governor.
John Neely Johnson (August 2, 1825 – August 31, 1872) was an American lawyer and politician. He was elected as the fourth governor of California from 1856 to 1858, and later appointed justice to the Nevada Supreme Court from 1867 to 1871. [1]