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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—CaliforniaBIDWELL, John
(1819—1900)
BIDWELL, John, a Representative from California; born in Chautauqua County, N.Y., August 5, 1819; moved with his parents to Erie, Pa., in 1829 and to Ashtabula County, Ohio, in 1831; attended the country schools and Kingsville Academy, Ashtabula, Ohio; taught school in Ohio; spent two years in Missouri and taught school; crossed the Rockies and Sierras with the first overland expedition, arriving in the Sacramento Valley, California, on November 4, 1841; secured employment on the ranch of John A. Sutter; later engaged in mining; served in the War with Mexico, attaining the rank of major; member of the State senate in 1849; supervisor in California of the United States census in 1850 and in 1860; delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Charleston in 1860; was appointed brigadier general of the California Militia in 1863; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Thirty-ninth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1866; engaged extensively in agricultural pursuits; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of California in 1875 on the Anti-Monopoly ticket; presided over the Prohibition State convention in 1888 and was the unsuccessful candidate of that party for Governor of California in 1890 and for President of the United States in 1892; died in Chico, Butte County, Calif., April 4, 1900; interment in Chico Cemetery.
Bibliography
Benjamin, Marcus. John Bidwell, Pioneer: A Sketch of His Career
. Washington: N.p., 1907; Royce, C. C. John Bidwell; Pioneer Statesman, Philanthropist: A Biographical Sketch
. Chico, California, 1906.
Benjamin, Marcus. John Bidwell, Pioneer: A Sketch of His Career
. Washington: N.p., 1907.
Bidwell, Annie E. Kennedy. Dear General: The Private Letters of Annie E. Kennedy and John Bidwell, 1866-1868
. Edited by Linda Rawlings. [Sacramento]: California Dept. of Parks and Recreation, 1993.
Bidwell, John. Addresses, reminiscences, etc. of General John Bidwell
. Compiled by C.C. Royce. Chico, Calif.: N.p., 1907.
———. In California Before the Gold Rush
. Los Angeles: Printed by the Ward Ritchie Press, 1948.
———. Echoes of the Past
. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1928. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1973.
———. Feather River, 1849: thru Rio Chico, 1853
. [Chico?: N.p., 1849-1853].
———. Gen. Bidwell’s letter of acceptance
. [N. p., n. d.]
———. John Bidwell and California: The Life and Writings of a Pioneer, 1841-1900
. Edited by Michael J. Gillis and Michael F. Magliari. Spokane, Wash.: A.H. Clark Co., 2003.
———. A Journey to California, 1841; the First Emigrant Party to California by Wagon Train; the Journal of John Bidwell
. Introduction by Francis P. Farquhar. Berkeley, Calif.: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1964.
———. A Journey to California, with Observations about the Country, Climate and the Route to this Country
. San Francisco: J. H. Nash, printer, 1937.
———. Life in California Before the Gold Discovery
. Foreword by Oscar Lewis. Palo Alto, Calif.: Lewis Osborne, 1966.
The Bidwell-Bartleson Party
: 1841 California Emigrant Adventure: The Documents and Memoirs of the Overland Pioneers
. Edited and with an introduction by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. Santa Cruz, Calif.: Western Tanager Press, 1991.
Book Club of California, San Francisco. Pioneers of the Sacramento; a group of letters by & about Johann Augustus Sutter, James W. Marshall & John Bidwell
. San Francisco: N.p., 1953.
Butte County (Calif.). Memorial exercises for General John Bidwell (died April 4, 1900) held under the direction of the county officers of Butte county in the court-house at Oroville, California, May 7, 1900
. [Oroville, Calif.: Oroville Register Print, 1900].
First three wagon trains: to California, 184l, to Oregon, 1842, to Washington, 1853
. By John Bidwell, Hubert Howe Bancroft [and] James Longmire. Pictures by Frederic Remington and others. Portland, Ore.: Binfords & Mort, [1961?]
Hoopes, Chad L., John Bidwell, and Annie E. Kennedy. What Makes a Man: The Annie E. Kennedy and John Bidwell Letters, 1866-1868
. N.p.: Valley Publishers, 1973.
Howe, Edgar F. Biographical sketches of General John Bidwell, prohibition nominee for president, and Dr. James B. Cranfill, prohibition nominee for vice-president; with nominating speeches, national platform, and Bidwell’s letter of acceptance
. Redlands, Calif.: The Facts, 1892.
Hunt, Rockwell D. John Bidwell; Prince of California Pioneers
. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, 1942.
Ottley, Allan R., ed. John A. Sutter’s Last Days: The Bidwell Letters
. Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1986.
Royce, C.C. John Bidwell; Pioneer Statesman, Philanthropist: A Biographical Sketch
. Chico, Calif: N.p., 1906.
Snelson, Ralph J. An annotated bibliography on the writings by and about John Bidwell
. [San Jose, Calif.: San Jose State University, 1979].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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