Secretary of State of California

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The Secretary of State of California is the state's chief elections officer. The Secretary of State is also responsible for the California State Archives, as well as chartering corporations. The Secretary of State is elected to four year terms, concurrent with the other constitutional officers of California, and is restricted by term limits to only two terms. The incumbent, Debra Bowen, took office on January 8, 2007, and her current term expires on January 4, 2011, though she is eligible for reelection.

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
1	William Van Voohies	1849	1853	Democrat
2	James W. Denver	1853	1855	Democrat
3	Charles H. Hempstead	1855	1856	Democrat
4	David F. Douglass	1856	1858	American
5	Ferris Foreman	1858	1860	Democrat
6	Johnson Price	1860	1862	Lecompton Democrat
7	William H. Weeks	1862	1863	Republican
8	A. A. H. Tuttle	1863	1863	Republican
9	Benjamin B. Redding	1863	1867	Unionist Republican
10	Henry L. Nichols	1867	1871	Democrat
11	Drury Melone	1871	1875	Republican
12	Thomas Beck	1875	1880	Democrat
13	Daniel M. Burns	1880	1883	Republican
14	Thomas Larkin Thompson	1883	1887	Democrat
15	William C. Hendricks	1887	1891	Democrat
16	Edwin G. Waite	1891	1894	Republican
17	Albert Hart	1894	1895	Republican
18	Lewis H. Brown	1895	1899	Republican
19	Charles F. Curry	1899	1911	Republican
20	Frank C. Jordan	1911	1940	Republican
21	Paul Peek	1940	1943	Democrat
22	Frank M. Jordan	1943	1970	Republican
23	H. P. Sullivan (Acting)	1970	1971	Republican
24	Jerry Brown	1971	1975	Democrat
25	March Fong Eu	1975	1994	Democrat
26	Tony Miller (Acting)	1994	1995	Democrat
27	Bill Jones	1995	2003	Republican
28	Kevin Shelley	2003	2005	Democrat
29	Cathy Mitchell (Acting)	2005	2005	Democrat
30	Bruce McPherson	2005	2007	Republican
31	Debra Bowen	2007	present	Democrat

[edit] See also

• California government and politics

[edit] External links

• California Secretary of State's official website
• History of California Constitutional Officers
• 2006 Candidates for Secretary of State

v • d • e State Secretaries of State in the United States     AL: Beth Chapman AK: No such office AR: Charlie Daniels AZ: Jan Brewer CA: Debra Bowen CO: Mike Coffman CT: Susan Bysiewicz DE: Harriett Smith Windsor FL: Kurt S. Browning GA: Karen Handel HI: No such office ID: Ben Ysursa IL: Jesse White IN: Todd Rokita IA: Michael Mauro KS: Ron Thornburgh KY: Trey Grayson LA: Jay Dardenne MD: Dennis Schnepfe MA: Bill Galvin ME: Matthew Dunlap MI: Terri Lynn Land MN: Mark Ritchie MS: Delbert Hosemann MO: Robin Carnahan MT: Brad Johnson NE: John Gale NV: Ross Miller NH: Bill Gardner NJ: Nina Mitchell Wells NM: Mary Herrera NY: Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez NC: Elaine Marshall ND: Al Jaeger OH: Jennifer Brunner OK: M. Susan Savage OR: Bill Bradbury PA: Pedro A. Cortés RI: Ralph Mollis SC: Mark Hammond SD: Chris Nelson TN: Riley Darnell TX: Phil Wilson UT: No such office VT: Deborah Markowitz VA: Katherine Hanley WA: Sam Reed WV: Betty Ireland WI: Doug LaFollette WY: Max Maxfield *In states without a Secretary of State, the Lt. Governor may perform some of the typical functions of a Secretary of State, but the offices are not the same.

Categories: Government of California | Secretaries of State of California

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