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BUDD, James Herbert, a Representative from California; born in Janesville, Rock County, Wis., May 18,
1851; moved to California in 1859 with his parents, who settled in Stockton; attended the public
schools in Stockton and Brayton College, Oakland, in 1869; was graduated from the University of
California at Berkeley in 1873; served as lieutenant colonel on the Governors staff in 1873 and 1874;
deputy district attorney in 1873 and 1874; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1874 and
commenced practice in Stockton; served as first lieutenant in the California National Guard and was
promoted to major of the line; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4,
1883-March 3, 1885); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1884; appointed police and fire
commissioner of Stockton in 1889; member of the board for drafting the city charter in 1889;
Governor of California 1894-1898; resumed the practice of law in San Francisco; died in Stockton,
Calif., July 30, 1908; interment in Rural Cemetery.
BibliographyPeterson, Eric Falk. The End of an Era: Californias
Gubernatorial Election of 1894. Pacific Historical Review 38 (May 1969):
141-56.
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