C. C. Young
Clement Calhoun " C. C. " Young ( born April 28, 1869 in Lisbon, Grafton County, New Hampshire, † December 24, 1947 in Berkeley, California ) was an American politician and the 26th Governor of California.
Youth
From a young age drew C. C. Young to California and studied at the University of California, where he graduated in 1892. Between 1893 and 1906 he worked as a teacher, first in Santa Rosa and from 1893 at the Lowell High School in San Francisco. During this time he also built an estate in Berkeley, which he was to occupy until his death in 1947, with the exception of his governorship. At the same time he was also a partner in a real estate company whose vice president, he should be in his governorship.
Political rise
From about 1906 he became interested in politics. In 1908 he was elected to the Berkeley County in the House of Representatives from California, where he rose in the hierarchy of Representatives very soon. As early as 1913 he was Speaker of the Chamber. He became a close ally of Governor Hiram Johnson. Young was a member of the Progressive Party, but switched after its dissolution to the Republicans. But his life he remained the ideas of the Progressive Party connected. In 1918 he was elected Lieutenant Governor of California in 1922 and re-elected for four years in this office. Prior to the elections of 1926 to great dissatisfaction with the incumbent Governor Friend Richardson went wide in the Republican Party. Its stance was always conservative and its austerity measures also failed to achieve the unanimous support of his party. For this reason, Richardson was not nominated in his place Lieutenant Governor Young was set up as a Republican candidate for the gubernatorial elections. Young then won the election against the Democrats Justus S. Wardell and the Socialist Upton Sinclair.
Governor of California
Young's tenure as 26th Governor of California began on January 4, 1927. One of his goals was to achieve the restructuring of the administration and government authorities to achieve a higher efficiency. He also wanted to finance the expansion of California's road network by a mineral oil and not by government bonds. He sat down for the construction of new prisons, particularly for women and called the California State Park System to life. In November 1927 came in Folsom State Prison to revolt. Insurgents prisoners took guards hostage. Young responded with a large contingent of heavily armed police and National Guard, who marched in front of the prison. Given this overwhelming power, the prisoners gave up without resistance.
In October 1929 Young founded together with President Herbert C. Hoover, a commission for the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge. This bridge was completed in 1936. A strike of Mexican farm workers in the Imperial Valley in 1928 led to a deployed by the Governor study of the working conditions of Mexicans. The result was startling. For the most difficult jobs there were bad payments and working conditions. The commission of inquiry came to the conclusion that this type of employment was illegal. As 1930 elections queuing, Young's popularity had plummeted within his party, despite a 31- million-dollar budget surplus and he was not nominated for the office of the governor. This was partly due to the now incipient economic depression; on the other hand he was accused of nepotism in connection with a 1929 bank merger completed.
Evening of life and death
After his retirement from the office of governor in January 1931, he retired from politics, but took further part in public life. During the Summer Olympics in 1932 in Los Angeles, he did not show it take to congratulate some medal winners personally. In addition, he was promoted to vice president of real estate company, where he remained for decades. This office he held until the year 1944. He died on December 24, 1947 at the age of 77 years. He was married to Jeanette Vincent Lyla. The couple had two daughters.