Of the 14 federal constitutional amendments approved by the California Legislature, only the 17th Amendment was ratified by a resolution authored by a committee.
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By Alex Vassar
Of the 14 federal constitutional amendments approved by the California Legislature, only the 17th Amendment was ratified by a resolution authored by a committee.
Only one Medal of Honor awardee has ever been elected to the California Legislature. It was U.S. Navy Captain Willis W. Bradley, who was presented with the Medal during World War I. Bradley later served as Naval Governor of Guam (1929-1931), a Member of Congress from California (1947-1949), before being elected to the Assembly in […]