Just updated the biography of Assemblyman William T. Coleman to include the fact that Colemanite (a borate mineral formed through the combination of borax and ulexite) was named after Coleman.
But you totally knew that already, right?
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Just updated the biography of Assemblyman William T. Coleman to include the fact that Colemanite (a borate mineral formed through the combination of borax and ulexite) was named after Coleman.
But you totally knew that already, right?
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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 […]
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