Edward J. Livernash

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Edward James Livernash (born February 14, 1866 in San Andreas , Calaveras County , California , †  June 1, 1938 in Agnew , California) was an American politician . Between 1903 and 1905 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Born in the Lower Calveritas miners' camp near San Andreas, Edward Livernash attended public schools in his homeland. He then started working in the printing trade at the age of 15. In the following years he became involved in the newspaper industry. He started a newspaper in Cloverdale . Livernash then studied law until 1887, but without working as a lawyer. Instead, he stayed in the journalism industry. From 1891 he worked in various capacities for the San Francisco Examiner newspaper . During the gold rush in Alaska and the neighboring Canadian territories in 1897, he was commissioned by the Klondike prospectors to negotiate with the authorities in Canada to change the burdensome laws for prospectors.

Livernash also began a political career. In the congressional elections of 1902 he was elected as a joint candidate for the Democratic Party and the Union Labor Party in the fourth constituency of California in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where on March 4, 1903 he succeeded the defeated Republican Julius Kahn started. Until March 3, 1905, he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress .

In 1906, Livernash became editor of the Denver News newspaper . He lived in France between 1909 and 1912 . After returning to California, he settled in Belmont , where he dealt with literary matters, among other things. Edward Livernash officially called himself Edward James de Nivernais since leaving Congress in 1905. This name change, based on the French form of his family name, has been officially upheld by a court. He died on June 1, 1938 in Agnew, now a part of Santa Clara.

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SURNAME Livernash, Edward J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Livernash, Edward James (full name); de Nivernais, Edward James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH near San Andreas , California
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1938
Place of death Agnew , California