The Online Home of California's Political History
A third of all Term Limits 1.0 legislators (1991-2012) left office without ever terming out of either house.
The first person to ever resign from the Assembly after winning a Senate special election was Allen G. Thurman in 1947.
The longest gap in legislative service was Frederick Lux, who was out of office for 37 years between between his second and third Assembly terms.
March 26, 2022
The California State Capitol According the Notice to Candidates, issued by … [Read More...]
October 8, 2021
An introduction to the story of State Senator Nelson Dilworth and the amazing … [Read More...]
February 12, 2021
From confrontations in the tense years before the Civil War to the recent work … [Read More...]
January 29, 2021
As an update to a post from 2018, which noted that three was the highest number … [Read More...]
May 4, 2020
Sometimes, you run into elected officials with similar names The two were State … [Read More...]
The highest vote count for a State Senator was in 1958, when Richard Richards ran unopposed for reelection and won with more than 1.4 million votes. At the time, State Senate districts were apportioned by county rather than population, and Richards represented the entirety of Los Angeles County (which now contains parts of 14 Senate […]
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