Robert Beardslee

Robert L. Beardslee Sr.

58th Speaker of the California State Assembly
In office January 1907 – December 1908 ^[1]
Preceded by	Frank C. Prescott
Succeeded by	Philip A. Stanton
Personal details
Born	July 12, 1868 San Joaquin County, California
Died	1926
Political party	Republican
Profession	Attorney

Robert Lewis Beardslee, Sr. (1868–1926) was a Republican city attorney of Stockton, California and state legislator who served as the 36th Speaker of the California State Assembly in the early 1900s.^[2]

Biography

Robert Beardslee was born in 1868 in San Joaquin County, a rural California county east of the San Francisco Bay Area.^[3] He attended public schools and graduated from San Joaquin Valley College. He was admitted to practice law and then served as the City Attorney of Stockton, California in 1905 and 1906.

On November 8, 1904, he was elected to represent the 23rd Assembly District, which encompassed the City of Stockton (now renumbered the 17th Assembly District).^[4] Beardslee served in the Assembly until 1911, including service as Speaker of the Assembly during the 1907 session.^[5]

His son, Robert L. Beardslee, Jr. (August 3, 1905 – March 3, 1999), was also a lawyer, and was a partner in Neumiller & Beardslee^[6] with Charlie Neumiller.

References

↑ Note: The Assembly was a part-time body at this point, only meeting for a few months in 1907. So technically Beardslee held onto his title as Speaker until a new speaker was elected in January 1909.
↑ California's Legislature, E. Dotson Wilson, Office of the Assembly Chief Clerk, Sacramento, Ca: 2006. page 265.
↑ Biographical and career information from California Blue Book, 1907, Office of State Printing, Sacramento, Ca: 1907. p. 394.
↑ See California Assembly for listing of Assembly Districts and current legislative representative.
↑ See photo of Beardslee in California Blue Book, 1907, Office of State Printing, Sacramento, Ca: 1907. p. 393.
↑ Neumiller & Beardslee Attorneys & Counselors at www.neumiller.com

External links

at www.assembly.ca.gov California Assembly web page

Preceded by Frank C. Prescott	Speaker of the California State Assembly January 1907–November 1908	Succeeded by Philip A. Stanton

Speakers of the California State Assembly

White Bigler Hammond Wall Fairfax Stow Farley Beatty Whiteside Stratton Moore Burnell Barstow Machin Sears Yule Ryland Rogers Shannon Estee Carpenter Berry Cowdery Parks LaRue Parks Jordan Howe Coombs Gould Lynch Coombs Anderson Pendleton Fisk Prescott Beardslee Stanton Hewitt Young Wright Merriam Levey Little Craig Jones Peek Garland Lyon Collins Silliman Lincoln R. Brown Unruh Monagan Moretti McCarthy W. Brown Allen Setencich Pringle Bustamante Villaraigosa Hertzberg Wesson Núñez Bass Pérez Atkins Rendon

Political offices
Preceded by Frank E. Dunlap	California State Assemblyman, 23rd District 1905–1911	Succeeded by E. H. McGowen

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