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California Secretary of State - Definition and Overview

The Secretary of State of California is the state's chief elections officer. The Secretary of State is also responsible for the California State Archives, as well as chartering corporations. The Secretary of State is elected to four year terms, concurrent with the other constitutional officers of California, and is restricted by term limits to only two terms. The most recent election was in 2002.

# Name Took Office Left Office Party
1 William Van Voohies 1849 1853 Democrat
2 James W. Denver 1853 1855 Democrat
3 Charles H. Hempstead 1855 1856 Democrat
4 David F. Douglass 1856 1858 American
5 Ferris Foreman 1858 1860 Democrat
6 Johnson Price 1860 1862 Lecompton Democrat
7 William H. Weeks 1862 1863 Republican
8 A.A.H. Tuttle 1863 1863 Republican
9 Benjamin B. Redding 1863 1867 Unionist Republican
10 H.L. Nichols 1867 1871 Democrat
11 Drury Melone 1871 1875 Republican
12 Thomas Beck 1875 1880 Democrat
13 Daniel M. Burns 1880 1883 Republican
14 Thomas L. Thompson 1883 1887 Democrat
15 William C. Hendricks 1887 1891 Democrat
16 Edwin G. Waite 1891 1894 Republican
17 Albert Hart 1894 1895 Republican
18 Lewis H. Brown 1895 1899 Republican
19 Charles F. Curry 1899 1911 Republican
20 Frank C. Jordan 1911 1940 Republican
21 Paul Peek 1940 1943 Democrat
22 Frank M. Jordan 1943 1970 Republican
23 H.P. Sullivan 1970 1971 Republican
24 Jerry Brown 1971 1975 Democrat
25 March Fong Eu 1975 1994 Democrat
26 Tony Miller 1994 1995 Democrat
27 Bill Jones 1995 2003 Republican
28 Kevin Shelley 2003 - Democrat
See also
California government and politics

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