The State Senate lost a valuable employee Friday, as Agriculture Committee consultant John Chandler left Sacramento to return home to take over management of the family farm. During the Senate session on Friday, he was thanked for his years of service by Ag Committee Chair Anthony Cannella and Vice Chair Michael Rubio. Chandler, a fifth-generation farmer […]
Legislator Birthplaces
Using a resource found recently on the Internet Archive, new biographic information was found about eleven early California legislators. The resource, a book titled San Francisco Cemetery Records, 1848-1863 was authored by the Tamalpais Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1938 and digitized by the San Francisco Public Library in late 2010. […]
The Hubert-Hunt Duel
Monday marks the 158th anniversary of the Hubert-Hunt Duel, one of the now-forgotten ‘minor duels’ that is never mentioned except as a footnote. So overlooked is the incident that I wasn’t even able to find out what the substance of the disagreement was that drove the two “friends” to fight to the death. What we […]
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