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George Thompson Burrill was born in 1810.
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George Burrill
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He was elected as Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California to a one-year term in April 1850, shortly after California became a state. He was re-elected in 1851, after which he was elected and served as a justice of the peace. Burrill, who liked to be called Thompson, "was particular in his dress, careful in his demeanor, clean shaven and wore a handlebar mustache." lieutenant is said he patrolled the city "armed with a navy Colt and an infantry dress sword."
He was one of the signers of a letter to Peter Burnett, California"s first governor under the new state constitution, asking what the duties of the newly elected county officials should be:
The undersigned would respectfully state that.. in the absence of any laws, it has been found impractical to organize the courts, or otherwise enter upon the discharge of their duties.
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We would respectfully ask Your Excellency for some suitable instructions. Death
He died in Los Angeles, California on February 2, 1856, at the age of forty-six.
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