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

SENATORS AND ASSEMBLYMEN.

   Sierra county was allowed by the legislature, after her organization, one
state senator and two assemblymen to represent her in the counsels of state. The
first election when these officers were chosen occurred September 7, 1853. At
that election, James H. Gardner, who for two years prior had represented Yuba
county in the assembly, received 1,896 votes for senator, and Edward W. Haskell
1,495 votes, giving the former a majority of 401. There were four candidates for
the assembly: John C. James receiving 1,817 votes; Francis Anderson, 1,620; C.
A. Purinton, 1,542; W. T. Ferguson, 1,530. James and Anderson were declared
elected. Following is a list of the senators and representatives for Sierra
county from 1853 to the present time:

SENATORS.                              ASSEMBLYMEN.
James H. Gardner                  1853—John C. James, Francis Anderson.
                                  1855—H. A. Gaston, A. A. Hoover. 
W.T. Ferguson                     1856—S. M. Miles, B.J. Coil.
                                  1857—J. A. Clarke, R. D. Hill. 
Moses Kirkpatrick                 1858—James A. Johnson, Josiah Lefever.
                                  1859—James A. Johnson, T. J. Haliday.
*Harry I. Thornton, Jr.           1860—John Dougherty, Thomas Wright.
William Kimball                   1861—David Lane, E. B. Smith.
Francis Anderson                  1862—E. B. Smith, James Crawford.
James W. Moyle                    1863—S. H. Alley, K. S. Weston.
L. E. Pratt                       1865—M. A. Singleton, G. Meredith.
                                  1867—T. S. Batelle, J. W. Downer. 
H. K. Turner                      1869—B. J. Sammons, John Koutz.
                                  1871—B. J. Sammons, D. L. Whitney. 
H. K. Turner                      1873—G. Winchell, W. R. Morgan.
                                  1875—John Koutz.
#Niles Searles                    1877—L. Byington.
+ B. J. Watson                    1879—James Nelson.
                                  1880—G. Wood.
* Resigned in 1861.
# Sierra and Nevada counties formed the 24th district in 1874: Nevada with one
senator and three assemblymen, and Sierra with one senator, jointly with Nevada,
and one assemblyman. 
+ Joint senator with Nevada.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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