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May 29, 2012 By Alex Vassar

Assemblyman Frank Holoman (1934-2012)

Senator Rod Wright adjourned the State Senate on Thursday in memory of former Assemblyman Frank Holoman, who died last Tuesday (May 23rd) in Los Angeles. Holoman moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s, serving as a staffer for Speaker Jesse M. Unruh before being elected to the Assembly himself in 1972. He served a single term before […]

Filed Under: Current Research, Deaths, JoinCalifornia, State Assembly

May 26, 2012 By Alex Vassar

Chandler Goes Home

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 […]

Filed Under: Current Research, JoinCalifornia, State Senate, Top Stories

May 24, 2012 By Alex Vassar

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. […]

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