page_title: Charles Duncombe (Upper Canada Rebellion)
section_title: California State Assembly
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Duncombe (Upper Canada Rebellion) / Reform politics / California State Assembly
caption_attribution_description: A bird's-eye view of Sacramento [California]: the city of the plain. City seen from above Sacramento River with waterfront area, ships, steamships, barges, etc. in foreground. Marginal views include local businesses, churches, public buildings, hotels, theaters, and industry. Includes view of Sutter's Fort in 1846 and Sacramento in 1849. Print on paper mounted on board: lithograph, color 79.9 x 100.1 cm.
context_page_description: Charles Duncombe was a leader in the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837 and subsequent Patriot War. He was an active Reform politician in the 1830s, and produced several important legislative reports on banking, lunatic asylums, and education.
context_section_description: After his activity in the Patriot War, Duncombe moved from Cleveland to Rochester, in 1841. He practised medicine there until he  moved to Sacramento County, California in 1849 at the beginning of the California Gold Rush. Although one of the first doctors to arrive in Sacramento, he did not qualify to practise in the state until 1851. He married Lucy Millard of California in 1857.  He was elected to the Sacramento city council.
  In 1859, he was elected to the California State Assembly as one of four members from Sacramento County, but was disqualified because it was argued that he gave up his American citizenship when he allowed himself to be elected to a foreign (Canadian) legislature.  He became an American citizen and was elected again in 1863 as one of the county's five representatives. He died in Hicksville, California in 1867 after a severe case of sunstroke and buried in the Masonic Section of the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery in Sacramento, California.
caption: Birds-eye view of Sacramento, ca. 1857
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