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

External link

• California Secretary of State's official website (http://ss.ca.gov)