James T. Farley

Library of Congress

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
09-06-1854	Whig	AD-19	0	Win
09-05-1855	Know Nothing	AD-19	0	Win
11-03-1868	Democratic	SD-14	0	Win
09-02-1873	Democratic	SD-14	0	Win
09-07-1875	Democratic	SD-16	0	Win
12-19-1877	Democratic	Senate3	0	Win

Candidate Biography:

Born: August 6, 1829 in Albemarle County, Virginia
Married: Flora Forester Phelps
Family: Son-in-law of J. B. Phelps
Died: January 22, 1886 in Jackson, CA

1856: Speaker, California State Assembly
1871-1872: President pro Tempore, California State Senate

• NOTABLE HISTORY: One of only three people to ever serve as the leader of both houses of the Legislature. The others were Ransom Burnell and Toni G. Atkins.
• QUOTABLE: "Gentlemen, the curtain is about to fall upon the closing scene of our labors: we are about to interchange the friendly but sad farewell salutations which to many, very many of us, may be our last on earth; our last kind word and "wild farewell," until we meet eachother in the great general assembly of the just made perfect." - Speaker Farley's Farewell Address (1856 Assembly Journal, p. 873)

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: Directory of the California Legislature. Twenty-First Session, 1875-6 by William Halley (1876)
Source: "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present" (U.S. Library of Congress) [http://bioguide.congress.gov/]
Source: Legislative Guide... of all the State Officers and Members of the Legislature... by Kean & Dudley (H.S. Crocker and Co., 1871)