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Signatures of the 1849 California Constitution. Many of the signatories to the state's original 1849 constitution were themselves prominent in their own right, and are listed below. [26] [27] [28] The list notably includes several Californios (California-born, Spanish-speaking residents).
Colton Hall in Monterey, site of the 1849 Constitutional Convention. The Monterey Convention of 1849 was the first California Constitutional Convention to take place. [1] [8] [9] Bvt. Brig. Gen. Bennett C. Riley, ex officio Governor of California, issued a proclamation on June 3, 1849 calling for a convention and a special election on August 1 where delegates to the convention would be elected.
Transition to the third phase of interim government began with approval of the first California Constitution by a constitutional convention in October, 1849; followed in November by the election of the first civilian state government. The transition was completed by the handover of government from military to civilian on December 20.
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]
The California Constitution was adopted on November 13, 1849, [14] and Taylor submitted a proposition to admit California as a new state to Congress for debate on February 13, 1850. [ 15 ] Despite outlawing slavery and applying to the Union as a free state, California had elected one anti-slavery and one pro-slavery senator, John C. Frémont ...
Though California banned slavery in its 1849 Constitution, the state had no laws that made it a crime to keep someone enslaved or require that they be freed, which allowed slavery to continue ...
The article is a provision of California's state Constitution that requires voter approval before public housing is built in a community. At the time it passed in 1950, the real estate industry ...
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