George B. Tingley
Whig
| Date | Party | Office | Votes | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11-13-1849 | Nonpartisan | AD-Sacramento | 0 | Win |
| 10-07-1850 | Whig | SD-05 | 0 | Win |
Candidate Biography:
George Brown Tingley
Born: August 4, 1815 in Clermont County, Ohio
Married: Nancy Margaret Walker
Children: Margaret M., Mary Viola (who married James H. Lawrence twice), Marshall M., Sarah E., George M., William E., Benjamin J., Susan, Frank S. and Florence E.
Died: August 3, 1862 in San Francisco, CA
1849: Speaker pro Tem, California State Assembly
1850: Resigned from the State Assembly on September 25.
1852: Candidate for Senate President Pro Tem (Lost; 1 to 12)
1860s-2862: Register of the U.S. Land Office in San Francisco
- HISTORICAL NOTE: "At the start considerable dissatisfaction was felt in respect to the accommodation offered by the State House, and only four days after its first occupation, George B. Tingley, a member from Sacramento, introduced a bill to remove the Legislature to Monterey. It only passed its first reading and was then consigned to the purgatory of "further action." Source: History of Santa Clara County by J. P. Munro-Fraser (1881)
- HISTORICAL NOTE: Tingley was the first State Senator to represent Contra Costa County after its incorporation.
- HISTORICAL NOTE: In 1851, Tingley became the first person to serve in both houses of the California Legislature and the first to go from the Assembly to the Senate.
- Be Fruitful and Multiply: Tingley had 10 children.
Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)