Annual Message of Governor George C. Perkins, to the Legislature of the State of California, Twenty-Fourth Session

72pp. Octavo [23 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Better than very good. Bookplate on front pastedown. Exlibris Governor George C. Perkins, with his ownership stamp on the front free endsheet. George Clement Perkins (1839-1923) was elected as the fourteenth governor of California in 1880, and his administration was to be the first under the new 1879 state constitution. When U.S. Senator Leland Stanford died in 1893, Perkins was appointed to complete that term. He served three more terms in the U.S. Senate, until 1915, where he was active in naval affairs and the building of the Panama Canal.