California State Officials Biographies 1911

JOHN DOWNEY WORKS

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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UNITED STATES SENATOR
JOHN DOWNEY WORKS (Republican) was born in Ohio County, Indiana, March 20, 1847; 
was reared on a farm until sixteen and a half years of age; when he enlisted in 
the army of the Civil War, serving eighteen months and until the close of the 
war; was educated in the common schools on Indiana; was married to Alice Banta, 
November 8, 1868, and has six children; is a lawyer and practiced his profession 
for fifteen years at Vevay, Indiana; in 1883 removed to California; served one 
term as a member of the Legislature of Indiana in 1879; was Judge of the 
Superior Court of San Diego County, California, and a Justice of the Supreme 
Court of this State; was for a short time in 1910 a member of the City Council 
of the City of Los Angeles, California, and its president; has been a member of 
the American Bar Association for more than twenty years; in 1911 was elected 
United States Senator for California by the Legislature of this State, on the 
first ballot, receiving ninety-two votes out of one hundred and twenty. His term 
expires March 4, 1917. 

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