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Peter Hardeman Burnett (November 15, 1807 – May 17, 1895) was an American politician who served as the first elected Governor of California from December 20, 1849, to January 9, 1851. Burnett was elected Governor almost one year before California's admission to the Union as the 31st state in September 1850. [a]
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Peter Hardeman Burnett was a leader on the Oregon Trail, a town-builder, a legislator, and the region’s first judge. Throughout his professional career, he easily won people’s confidence and gained significant public positions, but he failed to provide effective leadership partly because he refused to take advice from others.
Jul 15, 2020 · As governor of California, he endorsed the genocide of Native Americans. He also tried to pass a law outlawing African Americans in the state. Author Gregory Nokes has researched and written ...
He was a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court in 1845, and served as a member of the Oregon Territorial Legislature in 1844 and 1848. Burnett was lured to California during the gold rush, but continued in his career of law and his path in politics.
Peter Burnett 1849–1851 Significant Facts. Born: November 15, 1807 in Nashville, TN Died: May 17, 1895 in San Francisco, CA Married: Harriet Burnett on August 20, 1828 in Bolivar, TN Political Party: Independent Democrat Family. Father: George Burnett Mother: Dorothy Hardeman Wife: Harriet Rogers Children: Dwight, Martha, Romeetta, John ...
Peter Hardeman Burnett, the first elected governor of California (1849-1851) and one of the founders of Sacramento, was a former slaveholder from Tennessee with a burning passion to create a whites-only American West. In 1843, Burnett led a wagon train to Oregon.
BURNETT, PETER HARDEMAN. Governor, jurist; b. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 15, 1807;d. San Francisco, Calif., May 17, 1895. Burnett spent his early life in Tennessee and Missouri, where he worked at odd jobs, edited a newspaper, and eventually studied law.
