- Robert Beardslee
Infobox Officeholder
name = Robert L. Beardslee Sr.
order = 58th Speaker of the
California State Assembly
term_start = January 1907
term_end = December 1908 [ Note: The Assembly was a part-time body at this point, only meeting for a few months in 1907. So technically Beardslee held onto his title as Speaker until a new speaker was elected in January 1909.]
predecessor =Frank C. Prescott
successor =Philip A. Stanton
birth_date = 12 July 1868
birth_place = San Joaquin County,California
death_date =
death_place =
constituency =
party = Republican
spouse =
profession =Attorney
religion =
footnotes =Robert Lewis Beardslee, Sr. (1868 - 1926) was a Republican city attorney of Stockton and state legislator who served as the 36th Speaker of the
California Assembly in the early 1900s. [ "California's Legislature", E. Dotson Wilson, Office of the Assembly Chief Clerk, Sacramento, Ca: 2006. page 265.]Biography
Robert Beardslee was born in 1868 in San Joaquin County, a rural California county east of the San Francisco Bay Area. [ Biographical and career information from "California Blue Book, 1907", Office of State Printing, Sacramento, Ca: 1907. p. 394.] He attended public schools and graduated from San Joaquin Valley College. He was admitted to practice law and then served as the City Attorney of
Stockton, California in 1905 and 1906.On November 8, 1904, he was elected to represent the 23rd Assembly District, which encompassed the City of Stockton (now renumbered the 17th Assembly District). [ See
California Assembly for listing of Assembly Districts and current legislative representative.] Beardslee served in the Assembly until 1911, including service as Speaker of the Assembly during the 1907 session. [See photo of Beardslee in "California Blue Book, 1907", Office of State Printing, Sacramento, Ca: 1907. p. 393.]His son, Robert L. Beardslee, Jr. (
August 3 1905 -March 3 1999 ), was also a lawyer, and was a partner inNeumiller & Beardslee [ [http://www.neumiller.com/history.html Neumiller & Beardslee Attorneys & Counselors ] at www.neumiller.com] withCharlie Neumiller .References
External links
* [http://www.assembly.ca.gov ] at www.assembly.ca.gov California Assembly web page
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