California State Officials Biographies 1911

FRIEND WILLIAM RICHARDSON

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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Superintendent of State Printing.
FRIEND WILLIAM RICHARDSON was appointed to the position of Superintendent of 
State Printing by Governor Hiram W. Johnson on November 23, 1911, upon the 
resignation of W. W. Shannon. Richardson is the editor and manager of the 
Berkeley Daily Gazette, and has for the past ten years been the president of the 
California Press Association. His newspaper and job plant in Berkeley is one of 
the best equipped of its size in the State. He was born in Michigan, but came 
with his parents to San Bernardino when a very small boy. He was raised in San 
Bernardino, and later became the editor and proprietor of the San Bernardino 
Daily and Weekly Times-Index. In 1901 he sold that paper and purchased the 
Berkeley Gazette, which he still controls.

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