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April 3, 2013 By Alex Vassar 1 Comment

Big Daddy’s Vacation Photos

We don’t see new pictures like this very often… these vacation photos were taken on a trip that Speaker Jesse Unruh (also known as “Big Daddy”) took to Japan. These photos were included in a collection of items recently donated by the estate of Senator Leroy F. Greene.   Unruh inspects pearl necklaces at an […]

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March 28, 2013 By Alex Vassar Leave a Comment

Leroy Greene Collection

The first documents from the Senator Leroy F. Greene Collection have been added to the OneVoter website. Senator Leroy F. Greene was the seventh longest-serving legislator in state history, serving thirty-six years between 1962 and 1998. The longtime chair of both the Assembly and Senate Education committees, Greene authored a number of major school safety […]

Filed Under: Current Research, State Assembly, State Senate, Top Stories Tagged With: archive, Leroy Greene, Sacramento, State Senator

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