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June 30, 2013 By Alex Vassar Leave a Comment

Price Resignation Letter

Current Price resigned from the State Senate this morning, concluding his service with the longest resignation letter in more than a decade. At 240 words, Price’s letter is the longest since Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas resigned the very same seat in 2009 (but used an extra 56 words to do it. From a historian’s perspective, Price […]

Filed Under: Current Research, JoinCalifornia, Special Elections, State Senate, Top Stories Tagged With: California, Curren Price, Los Angeles, Special Election, State Senate

October 9, 2012 By Alex Vassar Leave a Comment

Assemblyman Ferrell

An email from Brian Ebbert of the Assembly Chief Clerk’s office shed light on something we had missed before: The Rev. F. Douglas Ferrell, who represented Los Angeles as an Assemblyman for two terms, has died. Actually, Ferrell died in 1982, but our research (which initially focused on the 1850s and has been working towards […]

Filed Under: Current Research, JoinCalifornia, State Assembly Tagged With: Assemblyman, California, F. Douglas Ferrell, legislature, Los Angeles, Obituary, State Assembly

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