California State Officials Biographies 1911

GEORGE C. PARDEE

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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GEORGE C. PARDEE (Republican) was born at San Francisco, July 25, 1857. Attended 
public schools, City College, San Francisco; McClure's California Military 
Academy, College School, High School, Oakland; graduated from University of 
California, Ph.B., 1879, M.A., 1883; studied medicine Medical College of the 
Pacific, San Francisco, 1881-82; graduated University of Leipzig, Germany, M.D., 
1885. Member of Oakland Board of Health, 1889-91; member of Oakland City 
Council, 1891-93; Mayor of Oakland, 1893-95; Regent of University of California, 
1889-1903; Governor of California, 1903-07; member National Conservation 
Commission, 1907-08. President, two terms, National Irrigation Congress. 
Director for California of the National Conservation Congress and 
Trans-Mississippi Congress. Chairman Conservation Commission, State of 
California, since 1911.
 
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