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October 15, 2012 By Alex Vassar

Speaker Charles Lyon

Added the following note to Speaker Charles W. Lyon‘s biography: “In 1938, Lyon (as a cross-filing candidate) defeated Robert A. Heinlein for the Democratic nomination for AD-59. As the only winning candidate in Primary, Lyon was unopposed in the General Election. Heinlein went on to become a prolific science fiction author, writing 32 novels, 59 […]

Filed Under: Current Research, JoinCalifornia, State Assembly

October 9, 2012 By Alex Vassar

Assemblyman Ferrell

An email from Brian Ebbert of the Assembly Chief Clerk’s office shed light on something we had missed before: The Rev. F. Douglas Ferrell, who represented Los Angeles as an Assemblyman for two terms, has died. Actually, Ferrell died in 1982, but our research (which initially focused on the 1850s and has been working towards […]

Filed Under: Current Research, JoinCalifornia, State Assembly Tagged With: Assemblyman, California, F. Douglas Ferrell, legislature, Los Angeles, Obituary, State Assembly

October 8, 2012 By Alex Vassar

Mervyn M. Dymally

Former Lt. Governor Merv Dymally died in Los Angeles yesterday. Dymally, who was first elected in 1962, saw the legislature move from part-time to full-time in 1966 and returned in 2002 to serve for six years in the term-limited era. He also served as Lt. Governor during Jerry Brown‘s first administration and as a Member […]

Filed Under: Constitutional Officers, Current Research, Deaths, JoinCalifornia, State Assembly, State Senate, Top Stories, Uncategorized

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