Hugh P. Donnelly

CA Blue Book (19??)

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-06-1934	Democratic	AD-32	12469	Win
11-03-1936	Democratic	AD-32	15503	Win
11-08-1938	Democratic	AD-32	19351	Win
11-05-1940	Democratic	AD-32	15090	Win
11-03-1942	Democratic	SD-22	16006	Win
11-05-1946	Democratic	SD-22	18891	Win
11-07-1950	Democratic	SD-22	29671	Win
11-02-1954	Democratic	SD-22	34144	Win
11-04-1958	Democratic	SD-22	42922	Win
11-06-1962	Democratic	SD-22	32230	Win

Candidate Biography:

Hugh Patrick Donnelly
Born: August 16, 1890 in Omaha, Nebraska
Married: Frances Thelma
Children: James H., Hugh P., and Rosemary Bristow
Died: August 7, 1969 in Sacramento, CA

1939: Speaker pro Tem, California State Assembly
1940: U.S. Presidential Elector

• Supreme Court Decision: In June 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a law authored by Hugh P. Donnelly, SB 413 (1945), was unconstitutional. The law, which prohibited the sale of fishing licenses to persons "ineligible to citizenship", was found to violate the Fourteenth Amendment. (Takahashi v. Fish and Game Commission, 334 U.S. 410)
• Legislation: Author of SB 1598 (1955) which made it a misdemeanor to include a "horror comic book" in the sale of any other publication. A "horror comic book" is any comic which depicts the commission of the crime of arson, assault with caustic chemicals, assault with a deadly weapon, burlary, kidnapping, mayhem, murder, rape, robbery, theft, or voluntary manslaughter. (Ch. 215, Stats of 1955)

Source: California Blue Book (1938), (1958)