Jose Antonio Carrillo

Candidate Biography:

José Antonio Ezequiel Carrillo
Born: 1796 in Santa Barbara, Alta California, Viceroyalty of New Spain [now California]
Estefana Pico (m. 1823, d.), Jacinta Pico (m. 1842)
Family: Brother of Carlos Antonio Carrillo and Anastasio Carrillo, and Brother-in-law of José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega, Pio Pico and Andres Pico
Military Service: Californio Lancers [Militia] (Mexican-American War)
Died: April 25, 1862

1826: Alcalde of Los Angeles
1828: Alcalde of Los Angeles
1833: Alcalde of Los Angeles
1836: Diputado, Mexican National Congress
1847: Mexican Commissioner, Treaty of Cahuenga
1847: Signed the Treaty of Cahuenga, which surrendered the last Mexican military forces in California ended the Mexican-American War in California. (The seven signatories were Pierson B. Reading, W. H. Russell, Louis McLane, Jr., Jose Antonio Carrillo, Agustin Olvera, John C. Fremont, and Andres Pico)

• His wives were sisters.
• LEGAL TROUBLES: In 1831, the Mexican Governor of California (Manuel Victoria) accused Carrillo and Abel Stearns of attempting to undermine the territorial government (and because they were Mexican citizens, this made them traitors) and sentenced them to death. The sentences were not carried out.
• At the Battle of Dominguez Rancho, Carrillo led his Californio militia, resulting in the deaths of 14 United States Marines

Source: Profiles of the Signers of the 1849 California Constitution by Wayne B. Shepard and George R. Dorman (courtesy California Genealogical Society)