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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]
William Burnet (March 1687/88 [1] – 7 September 1729) was a British civil servant and colonial administrator who served as governor of New York and New Jersey (1720–1728) and Massachusetts and New Hampshire (1728–1729).
Burnet Rhett Maybank (March 7, 1899 – September 1, 1954) was a three-term US senator, the 99th governor of South Carolina, and mayor of Charleston, South Carolina.He was the first governor from Charleston since the American Civil War (1861-1865) and one of twenty people in United States history to have been elected mayor, governor, and United States senator.
The 1938 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1938, to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Burnet Rhett Maybank, Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, won the contested Democratic primary and defeated Republican Joseph Augustis Tolbert in the general election becoming the 99th governor of South Carolina.
While serving as Chelan County Sheriff, Burnett was one of thirty-nine plaintiffs in a 2020 lawsuit against then-governor Jay Inslee, seeking to end the COVID-19 state of emergency, citing the need for local control and economic concerns. [3]
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.
She married Peter Hardeman Burnett on August 20, 1828. Governor Burnett credited her with being instrumental in his lifetime achievements. They had six children Dwight, Martha Letitia, Romeetta, John, Armstead and Sallie. [1] [2] In 1843, the family of eight travelled 1,691 miles (2,721 km) by oxcart to Fort Walla Walla, Washington.
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 ...