Today, Assemblyman J. W. Van Benschoten was added to the list of Shortest Terms in Office page on JoinCalifornia.com Assemblyman Van Benschoten served 66 days between December 15, 1849 and February 18, 1850. One source indicates that he was appointed Postmaster of the Graysonville Post Office (then in Tuolumne County, now in Stanislaus) on or […]
Correction: Robert Crown Library
After a tip from the State Senate’s own Bill Bailey that the Robert Crown Law Library at Stanford University was not named after Assemblyman Robert W. Crown, I emailed the library to get an answer. The response I got from the wise and resourceful Sarah Wilson (Reference Librarian & Archivist) was: No, we’re named after […]
Nolan Frizzelle (1921-2013)
The Sacramento Bee is reporting that former Assemblyman Nolan Frizelle died at his home in Folsom last weekend. A Marine veteran from the second world war, Frizzelle served in the Assembly for six terms before the 1990s redistricting forced him into the same district as Assemblywoman Doris Allen, who he lost to in the primary […]
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