Sacramento, CA (1888PressRelease)
March 20, 2007 - Sacramento, CA – Governor Schwarzenegger is expected to call a Special Election in the next few days to fill the seat of Los Angeles Assemblyman Richard Alarcon, who resigned last Friday. Alarcon, a California State Senator from 1998 to 2006, was elected to his first term in the State Assembly in November. On March 16th, after serving only 102 days in the Assembly, Alarcon resigned to take a seat on the Los Angeles City Council.
Although Alarcon’s Assembly service was not the shortest in California history, it was the shortest in more than thirty years.
According to Alex Vassar, Editor of the JoinCalifornia Political Archive, the last official to serve for a shorter period was John L. Harmer, who was Lieutenant Governor for 94 days starting in 1974. Harmer was appointed by Governor Ronald Reagan following the resignation of Edwin Reinecke.
The next shortest-serving official was Thomas M. Storke, who served a US Senator for 55 days in 1938.
With over 23,000 election results, the JoinCalifornia Archive includes election results for every candidate for the State Legislature since 1898, and all other state and federal offices since 1849. Created by Alex Vassar and Shane Meyers, the election archive allows visitors to view candidate biographies, results by election year, or district histories. The website also includes a list of California’s longest serving elected officials and legislative district maps from 1891 to the present.
For more information, visit http://www.joincalifornia.com
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