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Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American Oregon and California pioneer. He is noted for being the first Governor of California serving from 1849 to 1851.
Background
Peter Hardeman Burnett was born on November 15, 1807 in Nashville, Tennessee, the eldest son of George and Dorothy (Hardeman) Burnet. When about nineteen he added the second t to the surname to make it "more complete and emphatic, " and his brothers followed his example.
Burnett's father, a carpenter and farmer, came of a humble family, while the mother's family was distinguished. When the boy was about four his parents moved to a farm, and in the fall of 1817 to Howard County, Missouri. Nine years later the youth returned to Tennessee, where for a time he was clerk in a hotel at $100 a year, and, afterward, at double the wages, clerk in a store.
Education
Though Peter had received little schooling, he had read widely and had made some progress in the study of law; and in the spring of 1839, after becoming heavily in debt through the failure of several efforts in business, he turned to the law for a livelihood.
Career
In the spring of 1829 he bought out his employer, but after three years of unsuccessful storekeeping gave up and went back to the Missouri frontier, settling at Liberty. In the following winter he was appointed prosecuting attorney for the Liberty district. Two years later, deeply concerned over the continued illness of his wife and hopeless of earning enough money in Missouri to pay his debts, he decided to move to Oregon. Consulting his creditors and receiving their approval, he set out with his family on the historic migration of 875 men, women, and children that left the vicinity of Independence, Missouri, May 22, 1843.
On June 1 he was elected captain of the expedition, but a week later resigned. Reaching Whitman's Mission on October 14, he went on to Fort Vancouver, subsequently taking up a farm near the mouth of the Willamette and later another farm near the present town of Hillsboro, Ore. He at once became prominent in the affairs of the new colony.
He was chosen one of the nine members of the legislative committee of Oregon in 1844, in 1845 judge of the supreme court, and on the preliminary establishment of a territorial government in 1848 was elected to the legislature.
In August of the last-named year, on the passage by Congress of the territorial organization bill, he was appointed by President Polk one of the territory's supreme court justices--an honor of which he was not to learn for many months. In September, leading a company of 150 men, he started for the California goldfields, arriving at the Yuba mines on November 5. Six weeks later he left the mines to become the attorney and general agent of John A. Sutter, Jr.
In July 1849 he left the employ of Sutter and on August 13 was appointed by General Bennet Riley judge of the superior tribunal of California. In the movement for statehood that year he took an active part, and in the election of November 13, which ratified the constitution, was chosen governor by a vote almost equal to the combined vote of the four other contestants.
The government thus set up in December of that year was legitimized by the admission of California, September 9, 1850, but by the time the news arrived Burnett had tired of his post and on January 9, 1851, he resigned. For several years thereafter he practised law. In the beginning of 1857 he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the supreme court of the state, serving until October 1858.
From San Jose, which he had made his home since about 1854, he moved to San Francisco in 1863 and with Sam Brannan and Joseph W. Winans founded the Pacific Bank, of which he was made president. Peter Burnett also founded the city of Oregon City in Butte County, California.
In 1880 he retired from business and the same year brought out his Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer.
He died at age 87 in his San Francisco home.
Achievements
Peter Hardeman Burnett was primarily known as a governor, who served in California for a year before the state was actually admitted to the United States in 1850. During his early years in California he succeeded in paying off the indebtedness incurred in Missouri.
His career achievements were the following: he was one of the nine members who were chosen to the legislative committee of Oregon in 1844, in 1845 he was apointed as a judge of the supreme court, and on the preliminary establishment of a territorial government in 1848 was elected to the legislature. He was also appointed by President Polk as one of the territory's supreme court justices and later served as a judge of the superior tribunal of California from 1849. At the same year Burnett took an active part in the election of ratification of the constitution, and was chosen governor by a vote almost equal to the combined vote of the four other contestants.
Another Burnett's achievement, after he moved to San Francisco in 1863, was that along with Sam Brannan and Joseph W. Winans he founded the Pacific Bank, of which he was made president. Peter Burnett also founded the city of Oregon City in Butte County, California.
Characterized as an aloof politician with little support from the Legislature by the San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles press, Burnett grew frustrated as his agenda ground to a halt, and his governance style increasingly criticized. He became a regular fixture of ridicule in the state's newspapers and on the floor of the Legislature. With little over a year in office, Burnett, the first governor of the state, became the first to resign, announcing his resignation in January 1851. Burnett cited personal matters for his departure. Lieutenant Governor John McDougall replaced Burnett as the Governor of California on 9 January.
Although never venturing into politics much after the 1860s, Burnett was an active supporter of the federal Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Views
Quotations:
From Burnett's First Annual Message to the Legislature, December 21, 1849:
"For some years past I have given this subject my most serious and candid attention; and I most cheerfully lay before you the result of my own reflections. There is, in my opinion, but one of two consistent courses to take in reference to this class of population; either to admit them to the full and free enjoyment of all the privileges guaranteed by the Constitution to others, or exclude them from the State. If we permit them to settle in our State, under existing circumstances, we consign them, by our own institutions, and the usages of our own society, to a subordinate and degraded position, which is in itself but a species of slavery. They would be placed in a situation where they would have no efficient motives for moral or intellectual improvement, but must remain in our midst, sensible of their degradation, unhappy themselves, enemies to the institutions and the society whose usages have placed them there, and for ever fit teachers in all the schools of ignorance, vice, and idleness.
We have certainly the right to prevent any class of population from settling in our State, that we may deem injurious to our own society. Had they been born here, and had acquired rights in consequence, I should not recommend any measures to expel. They are not now here, except a few in comparison with the numbers that would be here; and the object is to keep them out. "
Personality
Hittell describes Burnett as tall and spare, but strong and rugged, and adds that he was of a cheerful disposition, with a fondness for reminiscences and anecdotes. Bancroft rates him as a man of no particular force, but with an ability to accommodate himself to circumstances and to make friends and avoid making enemies.
