California State Officials Biographies 1911

MATT I. SULLIVAN

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION COMMISSION
MATT I. SULLIVAN was born in Grass Valley, in Nevada County, California, 
November 3, 1857. His parents were Michael M. and Margaret Sullivan, California 
pioneers who came to this State in the spring of 1852. With them he moved to San 
Francisco at the age of about four years. He attended St. Ignatius College and 
graduated from that institution in 1876, receiving the degrees of A.B. and 
LL.D., and was admitted to the bar at San Francisco in November, 1879. He was 
one of the supervisors appointed by Mayor Taylor in July, 1897, to succeed 
indicted members of the Schmitz administration. In February, 1911, he was 
appointed by Governor Hiram W. Johnson a member of the Panama Pacific 
International Exposition Commission of the State of California and was elected 
its president. In September, 1912, he was chosen dean of the law college of St. 
Ignatius University.
 
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