Plumas-Yuba-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Shannon, Thomas B. 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

   THOMAS B. SHANNON is a native of Pennsylvania. In early life he emigrated to
Illinois, where he worked at the tinsmithing trade. In 1849 he came to
California, and worked at his trade for E. C. Ross in Marysville. From there he
removed to the upper Sacramento region, and engaged in gaming and sporting. In
1854 Shannon came into Plumas county, and with James A. Blood started a store at
Elizabethtown. Under the law creating the boards of supervisors, Shannon was
elected a member of the Plumas board April 9, 1855, from district No. 2. He was
re-elected that fall, but resigned in October; and at the same time sold his
business at Elizabethtown, and purchased a one-third interest in the firm of
Clark, Wagner, & Co., at Meadow valley—Shannon assuming control of the business.
Injudicious speculation caused the firm to collapse in 1861, with liabilities
amounting to 150,000. Shannon was elected to the assembly in 1858 over Dr.
Walker, and re-elected in 1859 as a Douglas democrat, over Parsons, the
Breckenridge candidate. He was again run for the assembly in 1861, appearing on
the political turf as the unconditional-union candidate, and was elected,
defeating William Wagner and William Jacks. Shannon became an intense war man
from this period, and declared in favor of the emancipation as the best means to
preserve the union. In 1862 Shannon was pitted against Richard Irwin for the
state senate, and beat him by 261 votes. He now gave up his residence in Plumas,
and in the canvass of 1863 was elected to congress from the third district. He
has since served as surveyor of the port of San Francisco, a member of the
assembly from that city, speaker of the assembly, and collector of the port of
San Francisco. He was married in August, 1856, to Miss Avis Folger, at Meadow
valley.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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