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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—CaliforniaRomualdo PACHECO
(1831-1899)
PACHECO, Romualdo, a
Representative from California; born in Santa Barbara, Calif.,
October 31, 1831; was instructed by private tutors; engaged in
nautical pursuits and subsequently in agriculture; member of the
State senate in 1851 and again in 1861; member of the State
assembly 1853-1855 and 1868-1870; county judge 1855-1859; State
treasurer 1863-1866; Lieutenant Governor 1871-1875, and became
Governor when Governor Booth was elected to the United States
Senate in 1875; presented credentials as a Republican Member-elect
to the Forty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1877, to
February 7, 1878, when he was succeeded by Peter D. Wigginton, who
contested his election; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth
and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883);
chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Forty-seventh
Congress); appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Central American States December 11, 1890,
to Honduras and Guatemala July 1, 1891, and served to June 21,
1893; died in Oakland, Calif., January 23, 1899; interment in
Mountain View Cemetery.
Bibliography
Conmy, Peter Thomas. Romualdo Pacheco: Distinguished Californian
of the Mexican and American Periods. San Francisco: Grand
Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West, 1957; Genini, Ronald, and
Richard Hitchman. Romualdo Pacheco: A Californian in Two
Eras. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1985.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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