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Book Title: Illustrated History Of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

SENATORS AND ASSEMBLYMEN.

   When Plumas county was cut off from Butte it still formed, with the mother
county, the fourteenth district, of which Elisha T. Peck was the senator,
holding over till 1855, and John B. McGee, Seneca Ewer, and Richard Irwin, were
the assemblymen, whose terms were just expiring. These gentlemen all resided in
Plumas county, save Seneca Ewer, and were instrumental in. passing the bill
organizing this county. The Act of April 6, 1857, gave the fourteenth district
two senators and three assemblymen. A senator was elected from Butte and Plumas
on alternate years each, and the two counties alternated in electing two
assemblymen, the other chosing but one for the same session. By the Act of March
16, 1874, Butte, Plumas, and Lassen were combined in the twenty-sixth senatorial
district, with one senator and two assemblymen, Butte to elect one of the
latter, and Plumas and Lassen the other.

   The senators who have represented the Plumas section of the district have
been as follows: Elisha T. Peck, 1853-4; John B, McGee, 1855-6; John Coulter,
1857; S. A. Ballou, 1858-9; Richard Irwin, 1860-1; Thomas B. Shannon, 1862; F.
M. Smith, 1863-6; John Conly, 1867-70; David Boucher, 1871-3; George C. Perkins,
1873-6; William H. Crane, 1877-9; William A. Cheney, 1879-82.

   During the same time Plumas has been represented in the assembly by the
following gentlemen: 1854, Asa Kinney; 1855, Ripley C. Kelley and Joseph
Winston; 1856, Richard Irwin; 1857, S. A. Ballou and J. L. C. Sherwin; 1858,
Thomas B. Shannon; 1859, Thomas B. Shannon and P. O. Hundley; 1860, Allen Wood;
1861, Thomas B. Shannon; 1862, M. D. Howell; 1863, Robert A. Clark; 1865, John
D. Goodwin; 1867, John R. Buckbee; 1869, John Lambert; 1871, B. W. Barnes; 1873,
James D. Byers; 1875, John S. Chapman; 1877, James H. Whitlock; 1879, Charles
Mulholland; 1880, William W. Kellogg.


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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