California State Officials Biographies 1911

JOHN RUSSELL KNOWLAND

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS: Third District
Counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano (3 counties). Population (1910) 
305,364

JOHN RUSSELL KNOWLAND (Republican), of Alameda, was born in the city of Alameda, 
California, August 5, 1873; was educated in public and private school and in the 
University of the Pacific; is associated with his father, Joseph Knowland, in 
the wholesale lumber and shipping business; in 1898, at the age of 25, was 
elected to the Assembly of the California State Legislature; was reelected in 
1900; in 1902 was elected to the State Senate, resigning in 1904, after serving 
one session, having in the mean time received the Republican nomination for 
Congress; was elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and 
Sixty-first Congresses, and reelected to the Sixty-second by a plurality of 
27,238 over a Socialist opponent. No Democratic candidate filed a petition for a 
place on the Democratic ticket at the direct primary on the part ballot, and as 
he received a majority vote was declared to be, under the California direct 
primary law, the nominee of the Democratic as well as the Republican party.


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