The weekly Placer herald., 1853-05-21
Names Of California Governors
and thnir duration OF Office.

and their dslrafiDn OF Office.
The first Spanish Governor in Upper
California was Gaspardr Portoa, who
with the title of captain -generaD was
sent to the territory IN 1869 In 1775, he
was succeeded by Felipe de Neve. Pedro
Fages assumed cnnnI'lnd i'm 1872, and he
was relieved IN 1892 by Josef Romen In
i 1875, Diego B0rca was invested with the
charge Of affairs. Jose Joaquin ArriIIaga
'hpcarne Governor in 1906. and to him sue
lrceded, in 1912, Jose Maria Arguello. In
1915, commenced the term of Pablo vi
cpltp 50 a, during whose administration
the Province of Mexico declared its indie
reidpnce Of Spain Al these officers de-
rived tl,rtr aurlurlly r,u'n ,tte Crown, and
were clothed with the chief military and
civil command in the Territory. After
Porto a. they bore the titles OF Governor
and Military Connlandnnt. 1t was, OF
course. some months after the Plan OF
Ivualn wis published, before the news OF
the establishment of Mexican ndeprn-
tdpure could reach this distant province;
and il was not until the spring of 1872
thar Soln acknoo Iedged the change of at-
f,irs Meanwhile, Iturhide had heen shot,
and it was 70 the Regency of independent
Mexico thit the California G,vernor took
| the oath Of alerianre Sola took the IT,
tie of Po itlcaI { hief and Military Com
npntia,it and remained in otfire until
1923, during " hich wear h. went to NeX
leo, eavng AS Political thief dd interim,
Luis Antonio Argutlo He acted untli
1925, when Jose Maria Echeandia ar
rived from Mexico, with commission us
Pulifird Chief ..
Echpandia was superseded in 1929 by
Don Manuel Victorin, who was expelled
from the country hy the peop e in No
veml,er, 1880 California was then gov
rrnpd in an irregn ar manner; the south
prn portion recognizing the former Pulit-
| irui Chief, EcheandiH, who remained i'll
the country, at 0s Angeles, whi g the
northrrn portion was under the control of
| Captain Agu*tin V. Zamordell, a native
of Fioridn, who rominanded the troops
ut Monterey. At len 9Th, in the beginning
OF 1888, General Don jose FiglierOa ar
Irived from MexirO with Il commission rs
Political Chief and Military Coinnandlnt,
land with his arrival commenced in fact
the regular administration Of government
according to the laws Of Mexico. He
died on the 29th Of September, 1885, hay
ing previously, in the beginning of that
lmonth, resigned the government to Don
Jose Castro, the eldest member Of the
Territorial Deputation, or Council OF
Government Castro, in short time af-
terwards, resigned The government To Col.
Nirolas-Gutiprrez, who held it until the
arryal of Don Marano Chico with IL
commission from Niexco Chico was ex-
Ipcl ed by the people of Monterey, in the
! Ia al
the command, but was ia like manner ex-
pel ed in Novenher following.
In the rneantue the Federal Con>tItu,
tion ut Mexico bad been nVerthrown, and
the Central system was in progress of eS-
1abli%hmpnt The Califo oHnians were OPP
posed TO the latter, and upon the eXpnI
sion Of Gutierrez the Deputation dec Jared
California independent, and called { II Don
ariAno Guadalupe Vallejo TO assume the
government of the State. He, however,
he$itatpd, Hud Don Juan BautI>ta Alvara
do as eldest member of the Deputation,
took the place Of Governor. Don Carlos
antonio Carri To- Of Santa Barbara was
appointed bv the President of Mexico as
Governor of the Department in 1887; but
| Alvarado soon drove bin and his adhrr
ent,s into The Peninsula, and Alvarado WAS,
in 1885, confirmed in his flee as Govern
or hv President Bu>tauente, with Vallej"
as COmmandAut Genera.
These officers continued to govern the
country, in peace, until the latter parr ot
1912, when General Manuel Micheltrona
arrived us Governor and ComnHudant-
General. AIvarado and Va lejo were at
first INC med 10 resist his authority, but at
length they acquir>ced, and in The begin
ming of I94S, hr took c0n,iuand and main
tanned it uurl February, 1914, when, by a
sort of revolution, he was expelled. AS
we have before minated, the principal
rauSe of complaint against him was the
character of the troops which had accom-
panied him from, Mexico. I he Office ot
! Governor being thus vacated, Pho Plco,
eldest member Of the DephrtLrntal As
+emhly. undertook the fuiictlons OF the
chief civil auth"rlty, while Jose CasIr''
possessed the office IF Comnandant Gen
eraI They remained in power until the
orcupation of Gal torniu by The United
States. s. f. Herald.
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