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July 31, 2012 By Alex Vassar

Denver and Gilbert at 160: Locating the Site of the Duel

Thursday marks the 160th anniversary of the most important duels in California history. Unlike the Terry-Broderick Duel (the cause of which was more a personal dispute), the Denver-Gilbert Duel was strictly political. The two combatants, State Senator James W. Denver and former Congressman Edward Gilbert, were two well-known figures at the time. Gilbert had been […]

Filed Under: Congress, Constitutional Officers, Current Research, Deaths, JoinCalifornia, Top Stories

July 24, 2012 By Alex Vassar

Send us your head-shots!

One of the hardest parts about running a website like JoinCalifornia is the difficulty with tracking down good photographs of all the candidates. If you are working on a California campaign, or if you are a candidate yourself, please feel free to send us good photographs of yourself. Email files (no larger than 4 MB, […]

Filed Under: Constitutional Officers, Current Research, JoinCalifornia

July 20, 2012 By Alex Vassar

Correction

This morning we corrected an error in the records for the 2010 election; Wilmer Amina Carter‘s opponent in AD-62 was Jeane Ensley, not Cheryl R. Brown (who works for Carter). Not sure how that error happened (since Brown’s candidate profile wasn’t created until this year, but it’s fixed now). Thank you to Chris Nguyen for […]

Filed Under: 2012 Election, Current Research, JoinCalifornia

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