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California: State Senate

Members of the California State Senate, 1849-2006 (May be incomplete!)

• Blank district: Nathaniel Bennett 1849 John Bidwell 1849-50 Elisha O. Crosby 1849-51 Selim E. Woodworth 1849-51 David C. Broderick 1850-52 Thomas Jefferson Green 1850 Alexander W. Hope 1850 Nelson Taylor 1850-56 Alexander Anderson 1852 James W. Denver 1852-53 John Sharpenstein Hager 1852-54 Joseph Chambers McKibbin 1852-53 James H. Ralston 1853-54 Charles H. Bryan 1854 Sherman Day 1855-56 Delos R. Ashley 1856-57 Aaron Augustus Sargent 1856 Samuel A. Merritt 1857-62 Romualdo Pacheco 1857 Frederick A. Woodworth 1857 Cameron E. Thom 1858-59 Alfred W. Taliaferro 186? Benjamin D. Wilson 186? Romualdo Pacheco 1861-63 William Higby 1862-63 Alexander G. Abell 1863 Newton Booth 1863 John P. Jones 1863 S. P. Wright 1863-65 John Sharpenstein Hager 1865-71 James T. Farley 1869-76 Romualdo Pacheco 1869-70 George C. Perkins 1869-76 John J. DeHaven 1871-73 Paul Shirley 1875-78 Niles Searls 1877 Grove L. Johnson 1880-82 Enoch H. Pardee 1880 Warren Barkley English 1882 George A. Johnson 1883-87 Anthony Caminetti 1885-87 Martin J. Wright 1885-86 J. P. Abbott 1887 William W. Bowers 1887-89 Thomas J. Clunie 1887-89 Stephen M. White 1887-91 Sylvester C. Smith 1894-1902 James N. Gillett 1897-1901 John B. Curtin 1899-1915 Richard J. Welch 1901-13 Joseph R. Knowland 1903-04 Edward F. Woodward 1903-06 Eli Wright 1905-06 Charles Webster Bell 1907-12 Anthony Caminetti 1907-13 Leroy A. Wright 1907-14 Charles Pryde Cutten 1909 Arthur H. Breed, Sr. 1913-35 Claude F. Purkitt 1914-22 Lawrence James Flaherty 1915-22 Charles W. Lyon 1917-29 Tallant Tubbs 1925-37 William P. Rich 1931-51 William F. Knowland 1935-39 Culbert L. Olson 1935-39 John Phillips 1936-42 Arthur H. Breed, Jr. 1939-59 Jesse W. Carter 1939 John F. Shelley 1939-47 Henry R. Judah 1940-52 Thomas H. Kuchel 1940 E. George Luckey 194? Oliver Carter 1941-49 Jack B. Tenney 1942-54 Hugh P. Donnelly 1943-66 Clair Engle 1943 Ben Hulse 1945-57 F. Presley Abshire 1949-58 Harold T. Johnson 1949-59 Richard Richards 1954-62 Stanley Arnold 1955-66 Stephen P. Teale 1958-66 Leland M. Backstrand 1961-66 Robert J. Lagomarsino 1961-74 Thomas M. Rees 1962-65 John G. Schmitz 1965-70 John L. Harmer 1966-74 George Moscone 1966-75 Bill Richardson 1966-88 Anthony C. Beilenson 1967-76 Clair W. Burgener 1967-72 George E. Danielson 1967-71 George Deukmejian 1967-79 Ralph C. Dills 1967- Mervyn M. Dymally 1967-75 Milton Marks 1967-96 James R. Mills 1967- James Q. Wedworth 1967-76 Clare Berryhill 1972-76 Bill Greene 1975-92 John Garamendi, Jr. 1977-91 Rose Ann Vuich 1977-92 Diane E. Watson 1978-98 William A. Craven 1979-99 Kenneth L. Maddy 1979-98 John G. Schmitz 1979 Ed Davis 1980-83 John T. Doolittle 1981-90 Leroy Greene 1982-98 John Seymour 1982-88 Edward R. Royce 1983-93 Quentin L. Kopp 1986-98 Mike Thompson 1990-98 John L. Burton 199? Bill Lockyer 199? Hilda L. Solis 1992-2001 Thomas J. Campbell 1993-95 Teresa P. Hughes 1993-2000 J. Stephen Peace 1993-2002 Jim Costa 1994-2002 Adam B. Schiff 1996-2001 Barbara Lee 1997-98 Joe Baca 1999 Jim Battin 2004
• 8th District: Jackie Speier 1998-2006
• 9th District: Nicholas C. Petris 1977-96
• 11th District: Nicholas C. Petris 1966-76
• 13th District: Thomas F. Keating 1937
• 16th District: George Zenovich 1971-75
• 17th District: William J. Knight 1997-2004
• 18th District: Walter Stiern 1967-86
• 19th District: Tom McClintock 2001-03
• 23rd District: Sheila J. Kuehl 2000-
• 25th District: Robert S. Stevens 1967-77 Edward Vincent 2001-
• 26th District: Kevin Murray 1999-
• 28th District: Debra Bowen 1999-2006
• 32nd District: Nell Soto 2001-06
• 34th District: Walter Stiern 1959-66
• 36th District: Ray Haynes 1995-2002

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

2004 May 7: William J. Knight, died in office.

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