On the first day of the 2015-16 Session, the members of California Legislature had 398 years of prior legislative experience.
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On the first day of the 2015-16 Session, the members of California Legislature had 398 years of prior legislative experience.
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Today is “term out” day for fifteen members of the State Assembly. Under California’s first term limits law, legislators were forbidden from serving more than three terms in the Assembly. A court decision later clarified that partial terms of less than half a term wouldn’t count as a full term, meaning that the halfway point […]
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A follow-up to the recent post about legislator age statistics… another interesting way to look at the Legislature and the passage of time is to look at the members who had the longest legislative careers. But, as with everything else, there are multiple ways to measure “the longest legislative careers”; the easiest way to explain […]
Q: Who was the first Governor of California to be born in in the State of California (after it became a state). A: George C. Pardee (born 1857 in San Francisco)