Signed James Thompson Farley CA Senator & Orig 1849 California Gold STRIKE Miner For Sale

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Signed James Thompson Farley CA Senator & Orig 1849 California Gold STRIKE Miner:
$179.00

James Thompson Farley was drawn by the discovery of gold and hastened by a duel in which he nearly killed a man who had been his rival for a woman\'s affections, Farley moved to California in 1849. He tried mining for gold in Calaveras and Tuolumne counties.

He was elected to the California State Assembly from Amador County at the age of 25 as a member of the Whig Party. At the time, only five years after California had become a state and in accordance with the original Constitution of California, members of the assembly were chosen annually. Farley ran for re-election in 1855, this time as a member of the Know Nothing Party, which was in the majority of the legislature at the time He again shifted allegiances to the Democratic Party following the collapse of the Know Nothing Party, remaining with the strong political contingent in the assembly and was elected to be Speaker of the Assembly in 1856.

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