JoinCalifornia: Election History for the State of California

Information Home Elected Offices Elections by Decade Longest Service Shortest Service Most & Fewest Votes Uncontested Races Closest Contests Redistricting Recalls
Elections 2024 General 2024 CD-20 Special 2023 US Senate Appt 2022 General Prior 2020s Elections Elections by Decade
Other Stuff Advanced Search CA Constitution CA in Congress Line of Succession Highest Ranking SCOTUS Cases

[search tips] [advanced search]

Searching tips

  • Enter a candidate's name to find a candidate
  • Enter the name of a political party to find the party and all candidates
  • Enter a date to find an election
  • Enter a year to find all elections within that year

Milton L. Schmitt

Republican

Date Party Office Votes Result
11-03-1908 Republican AD-40 2206 Win
11-08-1910 Republican AD-40 1764 Win
11-05-1912 Republican AD-31 4875 Win
11-03-1914 Republican AD-31 0 Win
Website: www.thehotelmajestic.com/majestic-history-en.html
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: February 4, 1877 in San Francisco, CA
Married: Helen Alexander (m. 1900)
Children: Lisa and another daughter
Died: May 13, 1920 in San Francisco, CA

  • Almost Speaker: According to Hichborn's Story of the California Legislature of 1911, Schmitt was the "machine choice" for Assembly Speaker in 1911 and would almost certainly have been elected to that post had the Progressives (led by Governor Hiram Johnson) not swept the Legislature that year. 
  • NOTABLE NO VOTE (California Suffrage): Schmitt was one of 12 State Assemblymembers (and 17 Legislators overall) who voted against SCA 8 (1911), which amended the State Constitution and gave women the right to vote in California. 
  • NOTABLE NO VOTE (Recall): Schmitt was one of 10 State Assemblymen (and 14 Legislators overall) who voted against SCA 23 (1911), which gave California voters the ability to recall statewide and legislative elected officials.

Source: California Blue Book (1909), (1911), (1913-15)
Source: Story of the California Legislature of 1911 by Franklin Hichborn (1911; San Francisco; James H. Barry Co.)
Source: "Blind Attorney Dies," Tulare Advance-Register, 16 May 1928, p. 1