Alameda-Butte-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Young, C. C. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 June 2, 2009, 7:45 pm Author: W. C. Wolfe, Editor YOUNG, C. C.: Lieutenant-Governor of California. (Republican). Is a native of New Hampshire, born April 28, 1869, and brought to California with his parents in May, 1870. Is of old New England ancestry, being the great-grandson of a Revolutionary soldier. Educated in the grammar schools of Butte County, in the high schools of San Jose and Santa Rosa, and in the University of California, graduating in 1892. For fourteen years teacher in the Lowell High School of San Francisco, serving as head of the English department and becoming the joint author of a text book on English still used in most California high schools. In 1906 resigned from school work to take up the business of real estate development, in which he is now engaged in Berkeley, with offices at corner Shattuck and Addison Streets, and in San Francisco, with offices at corner Post and Stockton Streets. Is vice president of the Mason-McDuffie Company of Berkeley and San Francisco. and vice president of the Berkeley Guarantee Building and Loan Association. Was elected to the Assembly from the old fifty-second district in 1908 and 1910, and from the present forty-first district in 1912, 1914 and 1916. Elected delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1912. Chosen Speaker of the Assembly for three consecutive sessions, 1913 to 1919, and elected Lieutenant-Governor November 3, 1918. The only Speaker in the history of the State to have been chosen for so long a time as six years, and the only Lieutenant-Governor to have been elected for so long as eight years. Elected Republican presidential elector in 1920 and made chairman of the California electorial board. Reelected Lieutenant-Governor on November 7, 1922. Term ends 1927. Residence. 2820 Regent Street, Berkeley, California. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Men of California Western Personalities and their Affiliations With Club Memberships and Civic Associations ILLUSTRATED RECORD OF MEN With Biographs of their Activities Published by WESTERN PRESS REPORTER, INC. San Francisco - Los Angeles Copyright, 1925, by W. C. Wolfe, Managing Editor In Collaboration with Assistants Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/alameda/photos/bios/young1281nbs.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/alameda/bios/young1281nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb