Join with the Irish-American Caucus of the California Democratic Party and carry on the tradition of these Irish-American Democrats in California.
Philip A. Roach, last alcade and first mayor of Monterey, later a State Senator who on St. Patrick's Day 1852 introduced the bill that allowed married women to engage in business under their own names and without the consent of their husbands. He sponsored the first domestic violence law in California.
John Conness, U.S. Senator, 1863-1869. Became a friend of Abraham Lincoln, served as a pallbearer at his funeral.
Frank McCoppin, the first Irish-American Mayor of San Francisco (1867) and later a State Senator.
James D. Phelan, California's first popularly elected U.S. Senator who left his Villa Montalvo estate as a gift to the people of California.
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown Sr., former Attorney General, 32nd Governor of California
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr., 34th Governor of California, current Attorney General
Jack T. O'Connell, current California Superintendent of Public Instruction
With that tradition to uphold, we can't spend much time looking back. Join us:
