California State Officials Biographies 1911

ELIJAH CARSON HART

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://calarchives4u.com/

These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit 
or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations 
desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain 
the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of 
the submitter. All persons donating to this site retain the rights to 
their own work.
 
Associate Justice, Third Appellate District.
ELIJAH CARSON HART (Republican) was born in an emigrant wagon en route to 
California, on the banks of the Carson River, in the State of Nevada, on 
September 9, 1857; he received a common school education, and learned the 
printer's trade, which occupation he followed for a time, and later engaged in 
various branches of newspaper work, as reporter, editor, and publisher; he then 
studied law under the direction of his brother, A. L. Hart, Attorney General 
(now deceased), and was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court in 1885; 
in the spring of 1886 he was elected City Attorney of Sacramento (the city 
elections then being held in March); in the fall of 1888 he was elected Member 
of the Assembly from what was then the Nineteenth District, in Sacramento, in 
the spring of 1890 he was again elected City Attorney, and reelected to the same 
office in 1892; in November, 1892, he was elected State Senator, serving through 
the thirtieth and thirty-first sessions of the Legislature; in 1896 he was 
elected Judge of the Superior Court for Sacramento County, and reelected in 
1902; elected Associate Justice of the District Court of Appeal, Third District, 
November 6, 1906, as the nominee of the Republican and Union Labor parties, and 
allotted the eight-year term.

Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913