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    Hiram Augustus Unruh (November 1, 1845 – December 16, 1916) was a Union Army soldier from Indiana who became a prominent businessman in California. Hiram...
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  • Unruh (or Unrug) is a surname. It may refer to: Hiram A. Unruh (1845–1916), American soldier during the Civil War, later a businessman in California Jerry...
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  • Hiram (Phoenician "benevolent brother", Hebrew חִירָם "high-born", Standard Hebrew Ḥiram, Tiberian Hebrew Ḥîrām) is a biblical given name referring to...
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    Baldwin's death, his estate was managed by his longtime friend and advisor Hiram A. Unruh. Land owned by the estate was relatively worthless upon his death, but...
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    the trademark for a type of cylinder recording manufactured by the Edison Records company in the U.S. from 1912 to 1929. Made from a nitrocellulose compound...
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    statehood. The incumbent is Fiona Ma, a Democrat. The state treasurer's main office is located in the Jesse M. Unruh State Office Building in Sacramento...
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    called Yorty a stooge of Democrat Jesse "Big Daddy" Unruh, the controversial California Assembly speaker. He attacked Yorty's membership in a segregated...
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    the behest of Governor Hiram Johnson. Japan's Consul General Kametaro Iijima and lawyer Juichi Soyeda lobbied against the law. In a letter to the United...
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    222–226. Stewart, pp. 276–277. Stewart, p. 276. Rarick, pp. 241–242. Unruh, pp. 49–50. Unruh, pp. 119–120. Hardesty, p. 2. Dorius, Guy L. (1997). "Crossroads...
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    increased spending by 9%. He worked with Democrat Jess Unruh, the Assembly Speaker, to secure a series of tax increases that raised rates and balanced...
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    salaries, and a reduction in the percentage of signatures required to place propositions on the ballot. Governor Brown insisted on Unruh's reforms that...
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    overshadowed in state politics by Republican progressives like Hiram Johnson and Earl Warren, Downey left a significant mark because of his tireless advocacy of...
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    but came in last with 10.19% of the vote behind William E. Evans, Charles Hiram Randall, and Harold B. Landreth. On August 18, 1948, Wright died at Huntington...
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    Archived from the original on December 30, 2014. Retrieved January 7, 2015. "Unruh named to Carter committee". San Francisco Examiner. March 6, 1980. p. 40...
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    district that included Berkeley. In the Assembly, Young became a political ally of governor Hiram Johnson and quickly rose through the chamber's ranks, becoming...
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    addition to Harris and Loehr (a mining engineer and freemason), Silvester Schiele (a coal merchant), and Hiram E. Shorey (a tailor) were the other two who...
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    ISBN 978-0874133837. John David Unruh, The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840–1860 (1979). John David Unruh, The Plains Across:...
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  • California's 20th congressional district is a congressional district in California including much of the southern and southeastern part of the state's...
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  • California is a Democratic stronghold and considered to be one of the "Big Three" Democratic strongholds alongside New York and Illinois. Originally a swing state...
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    Senator Hiram Johnson in 1945, a brief write-in campaign for Merriam appeared, though it only garnered 500 votes. He died at home in Long Beach of a heart...
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  • California Democratic Council Records Boyarsky, Bill. Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics (University of California Press, 2008), Pg...
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  • University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Chittenden, Hiram Martin. The American Fur Trade of the Far West: A History of Pioneer Trading Posts & Early Fur Companies...
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    first California governor to win a second term in office. No other governor of the state would win a second term until Hiram Johnson in 1914. During Bigler's...
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    Ohio) Oliver A. Unger, movie producer, distributor and exhibitor Kay Unger, fashion designer Tim Unroe, MLB first baseman 1995–2000 Paul Unruh, 1950 All-America...
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    1909 to 1910. Anderson ran for governor as a Republican in 1910 but was defeated in the primary by Hiram Johnson. Anderson was the uncle of California...
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    Eveready, Desoto, Real Silk, Nabisco, Grape Nuts, Caterpillar Inc. and Hiram Walker. Floyd & Gladys moved to New York City and set up house-keeping in...
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    Highsmith, crime fiction writer (died 1995 in Switzerland) January 21 – Howard Unruh, spree killer (d. 2009) January 24 – Beatrice Mintz, biologist (d. 2022)...
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    appointed Assistant District Attorney for San Francisco under D.A. Hiram Johnson. Levey left the D.A.'s office in 1910 to go into private practice. Levey married...
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