There has been a single “Dean of the Assembly” for 81 of the last 83 years. That will end for the foreseeable future when Mike Gatto leaves in 2016.
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There has been a single “Dean of the Assembly” for 81 of the last 83 years. That will end for the foreseeable future when Mike Gatto leaves in 2016.
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A third of all Term Limits 1.0 legislators (1991-2012) left office without ever terming out of either house.
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The first person to ever resign from the Assembly after winning a Senate special election was Allen G. Thurman in 1947.
Q: Which legislator who was San Francisco’s “official disinfector” during the 1900 Bubonic Plague outbreak? A: Assemblyman Fred Hugo Hartmann (1907 Session)