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Title: P. H. Burnett
Creator: Shew, William, 1820-1903
Date Created and/or Issued: 1865
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2018-2110.
Full-length portrait.
Peter Hardeman Burnett was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1820, self educated lawyer. In 1843 moved to Oregon where took up farming, became active in politics. In 1848 moved to California, worked for John Sutter; elected governor in 1849; served briefly on California Supreme Court; president of Pacific Bank of San Francisco. Died in 1903.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : carte de visite, print ; 4 x 2 3/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001637724CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Burnett, Peter H.. (Peter Hardeman),, 1807-1895--Portraits
Pioneers--California
Pioneers--Oregon
Governors--California
Lawyers--California
Judges--California
Bankers--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Sacramento (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Cartes de visite
Place: California
Oregon
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)
Sacramento (Calif.)

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