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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—CaliforniaEdward GILBERT
(18191852)
GILBERT, Edward, a
Representative from California; born in Cherry Valley, Otsego
County, N.Y., about 1819; attended the public schools; was a
compositor on the Albany Argus in 1839, and later an associate
editor; during the war with Mexico served as first lieutenant of
Company H in Col. J.D. Stevenson’s New York Volunteer
Regiment; arrived with his company in San Francisco in March 1847;
was in command of the detachment and deputy collector of the port
of San Francisco in 1847 and 1848, when the regiment was disbanded;
became founder and editor of the Alta California in 1849; member of
the State constitutional convention in 1849; upon the admission of
California as a State into the Union was elected as a Democrat to
the Thirty-first Congress and served from September 11, 1850, to
March 3, 1851; was not a candidate for renomination in 1850; killed
in a duel with Gen. James W. Denver, near Sacramento, Calif.,
August 2, 1852; interment in Lone Mountain (now Laurel Hill)
Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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