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Book Title: Memorial And Biographical History Of Northern California

GOVERNORS OF CALIFORNIA.

NAMES.                               From.          To.
Under Banish Rule.
Gaspar de Portala                    1707          1771
Felipe de Barri                      1771          1774
Felipe de Neve                       1774          1783
Pedro Fajes                          1782          1700
Jose Antonio Romea                   1790          1792
Jose J. Arrillaga                    1792          1794
Diego de Borica                      1794          1800
Jose J. de Arrillaga                 1800          1814
Jose Arguello                        1814          1815
Pablo Vicente de Sola                1815          1822

Under Mexican Rule.

Pablo Vicente de Sola                1822          1828
Louis Arguello                       1823          1825
Jose Maria de Echeandia              1825          1831
Manuel Victoria                      1831          1832
Pio Pico                             1832          1833
Jose Figueroa                        1333          1835
Jose Castro                          1835          1836
Nicolas Gutierrez                    1836          1836
Mariano Chico                        1836          1836
Nicolas Gutierrez                    1836          1836
Juan B. Alvarado                     1836          1842
Manuel Micheltorena                  1842          1845
Pio Pico                             1845          1846

UNDER AMERICAN RULE.

  Peter H. Burnett, elected November 13, 1849; inaugurated December 20, 1849;
resigned January 8, 1851.

  John McDougal (Lieutenant-Governor), inaugurated January 9, 1851. Died at San
Francisco, March 30, 1866.

  John Bigler, elected September 3, 1851; inaugurated January 8, 1852;
re-elected September 7, 1853; inaugurated January 7, 1854. Died at Sacramento,
November 29, 1871.

  J. Neely Johnson, elected September 5, 1855; inaugurated January 9, 1856. Died
at Salt Lake August 31, 1872.

  John B. Weller, elected September 2, 1857; inaugurated January 8, 1858. Died
at New Orleans, August 17, 1875.

  Milton S. Latham, elected September 7, 1859; inaugurated January 9, 1860;
resigned January 11,1860. Died at New York, March 4, 1882.

  John G. Downey (Lieutenant-Governor), inaugurated January 14, 1860.

  Leland Stanford, elected September 4, 1861; inaugurated January 10, 1862.

  Frederick F. Low, elected September 2, 1863; inaugurated December 10, 1863.

  Henry H. Haight, elected September 4, 1867; inaugurated December 5, 1867. Died
at San Francisco, September 2, 1878.

  Newton Booth, elected September 6, 1871; inaugurated December 8, 1871;
resigned February 27, 1875.

  Romualdo Pacheco(Lieutenant-Governor), inaugurated February 27, 1875.

  William Irwin, elected September 1, 1875; inaugurated December 9, 1875. Died
at San Francisco, March 15, 1886.

  George C. Perkins, elected September 3, 1879; inaugurated January 8, 1880.

  George Stoneman, elected November 7, 1882; inaugurated January 10, 1883.

  Washington Bartlett, elected Novembers, 1886; inaugurated January 8, 1887.
Died in office at Oakland, September 12, 1887.

  R. W. Waterman (Lieutenant-Governor), inaugurated September 13, 1887.



Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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