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California
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Capital: Sacramento
State Nickname: Golden State
State Bird: Valley Quail
State Flower: Golden Poppy
Admitted to the Union: September 9, 1850
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| Governors |
December 20, 1849 to January 9, 1851:
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Peter H. Burnett
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January 9, 1851 to January 8, 1852:
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John McDougal
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January 8, 1852 to January 9, 1856:
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John Bigler
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January 9, 1856 to January 8, 1858:
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J. Neely Johnson
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January 8, 1858 to January 9, 1860:
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John B. Weller
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January 9, 1860 to January 14, 1860:
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Milton S. Latham
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January 14, 1860 to January 10, 1862:
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John G. Downey
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January 10, 1862 to December 10, 1863:
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Leland Stanford
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December 10, 1863 to December 5, 1867:
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Frederick F. Low
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December 5, 1867 to December 8, 1871:
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Henry H. Haight
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December 8, 1871 to Gebruary 27, 1875:
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Newton Booth
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February 27, 1875 to December 9, 1875:
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Romualdo Pacheco
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Decembver 9, 1875 to January 8, 1880:
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William Irwin
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January 8, 1880 to January 10, 1883:
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George C. Perkins
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January 10, 1883 to January 8, 1887:
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George Stoneman
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January 8, 1887 to September 13, 1887:
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Washington Bartlett
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September 13, 1887 to January 8, 1891:
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Robert W. Waterman
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January 8, 1891 to January 11, 1895:
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Henry H. Markham
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January 11m 1895 to January 3, 1899:
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James H. Budd
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January 3, 1899 to January 6, 1903:
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Henry T. Gage
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January 3, 1903 to January 8, 1907:
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George C. Pardee
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January 8, 1907 to January 3, 1911:
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James N. Gillett
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January 3, 1911 to March 15, 1917:
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Hiram W. Johnson
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March 15, 1917 to January 9, 1923:
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William D. Stephens
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January 9, 1923 to January 4, 1927:
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Friend William Richardson
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January 4, 1927 to January 6, 1931:
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Clement C. Young
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January 6, 1931 to June 2, 1934:
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James Rolph, Jr.
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June 2, 1934 to January 2, 1939:
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Frank F. Merriam
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January 2, 1939 to January 4, 1943:
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Culbert L. Olson
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January 4, 1943 to October 5, 1953:
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Earl Warren
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October 5, 1953 to January 5, 1959:
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Goodwin J. Knight
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January 5, 1959 to January 1, 1967:
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Edmund G. Brown
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January 1, 1967 to January 6, 1975:
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Ronald Reagan
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January 6, 1975 to January 3, 1983:
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Edmund G. Brown
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January 3, 1983 to January 7, 1991:
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George Deukmejian
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January 7, 1991 to 1999:
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Pete Wilson
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1999 to 2003:
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Gray Davis
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2003 --
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
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| Senators - Class I |
September 9, 1850 March 3, 1851
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John Charles Frιmont
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January 8, 1858 January 9, 1860
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John B. Weller
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March 4, 1857 September 16, 1859
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David Colbreth Broderick
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September 15, 1859 March 2, 1860
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Henry P. Haun
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March 5, 1860March 3, 1863
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Milton Slocum Latham
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March 4, 1863 March 4, 1869
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John Conness
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March 3, 1869 March 4, 1873
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Eugene Casserly
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March 5, 1873 March 3, 1875
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John Sharpenstein Hager
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March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881
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Newton Booth
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March 4, 1881 March 8, 1886
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John Franklin Miller
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March 23, 1886 to August 3, 1886
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George Hearst
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August 4, 1886 March 3, 1887
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Abram Pease Williams
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March 4, 1887 February 28, 1891
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George Hearst
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March 4, 1893 February 6, 1899
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Stephen Mallory White
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February 7, 1900-March 3, 1905
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Thomas Robert Bard
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March 2, 1905 March 15, 1911
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Frank Putnam Flint
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March 16, 1911 March 15, 1917
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John Downey Works
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March 16, 1917 August 6, 1945
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Hiram Warren Johnson
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September 6, 1944 January 3, 1959
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William Fife Knowland
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January 3, 1959 July 30, 1964
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Clair Engle
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August 4, 1964 December 31, 1964
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Pierre Emil George Salinger
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January 1, 1965 January 3, 1971
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George Lloyd Murphy
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January 2, 1971 January 1, 1977
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John Varick Tunney
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January 2, 1977 January 3, 1983
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Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
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January 3, 1983 January 7, 1991
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Peter Barton Wilson
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January 10, 1991 November 10, 1992
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John F. Seymour
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November 10, 1992
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Dianne Berman Feinstein
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| Senators - Class III |
September 9, 1850 March 3, 1855
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William McKendree Gwin
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18551857
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Vacant
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January 13, 1857 March 3, 1861
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William McKendree Gwin
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18611867
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James Alexander McDougall
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1867 1873
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Cornelius Cole
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March 4, 1873 March 3, 1879
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Aaron Augustus Sargent
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1879 1885
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James Thompson Farley
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1885 1893
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Amasa Leland Stanford
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18931915
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George Clement Perkins
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March 4, 1915 March 3, 1921
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James Duval Phelan
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1921 1933
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Samuel Morgan Shortridge
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1933 1938
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William Gibbs McAdoo
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November 9, 1938 January 3, 1939
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Thomas More Storke
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1939 1950
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Sheridan Downey
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December 1, 1950 January 1, 1953
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Richard Milhous Nixon
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January 2, 1953 January 3, 1969
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Thomas Kuchel
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January 3, 1969 January 3, 1993
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Alan MacGregor Cranston
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January 5. 1993
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Barbara Levy Boxer
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| State Song |
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I Love You California
Written by F. B. Silverwood
Composed by A. F. Frankenstein |
I love you, California, you're the greatest state of all
I love you in the winter, summer, spring, and in the fall.
I love your fertile valleys; your dear mountains I adore,
I love your grand old ocean and I love her rugged shore.
Chorus
I love your redwood forests - love your fields of yellow grain,
I love your summer breezes, and I love your winter rain,
I love you, land of flowers; land of honey, fruit and wine,
I love you, California; you have won this heart of mine.
Chorus
I love your old gray Missions
I love your vineyards streteching far,
I love you, California, with your Golden Gate ajar,
I love your purple sunsets, love your skies of azure blue,
I love you, California; I just can't help loving you.
Chorus
I love you, Catalina - you are very dear to me,
I love you, Tamalpais, and I love Yosemite,
I love you, Land of Sunshine, half your beauties are untold,
I loved you in my childhood, and I'll love you when I'm old.
Chorus
When the snow crowned Golden Sierras
Keep their watch o'er the valleys bloom.
It is there I would be in our land by the sea,
Ev'ry breeze bearing rich perfume,
It is here nature gives of her rarest,
It is Home Sweet Home to me.
And I know when I die I shall breathe my last sigh
For my sunny California.
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State Population
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1850: 92,597 |
1860: 379,985 |
1870: 560,247 |
1880: 864,694 |
1890: 1,208,130 |
1900: 1,485,053 |
1910: 2,377,549 |
1920: 3,426,861 |
1930: 5,677,251 |
1940: 6,907,387 |
1950: 10,586,223 |
1960: 15,717,204 |
1970: 19,971,069 |
1980: 23,667,902 |
1990: 29,760,021 |
2000: 33,871,653 |
State Capitol Building 1907
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