The first person to ever resign from the Assembly after winning a Senate special election was Allen G. Thurman in 1947.
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The first person to ever resign from the Assembly after winning a Senate special election was Allen G. Thurman in 1947.
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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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