John Morton Eshleman

John Morton Eshleman ( born June 14, 1876 at Pulaski County, Illinois, † February 28, 1916 in Riverside County, California ) was an American politician. In 1915 and 1916 he was Deputy Governor of the State of California.

Career

John Eshleman grew up in Illinois. In 1896 he came to California, where he worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad. By 1903 he studied at the University of California at Berkeley. After a subsequent law degree in 1905 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working as a lawyer. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. He received the post of Deputy Commissioner for Labour Studies at the State Government ( Deputy State Labor Commissioner). In 1907 he was elected to the California State Assembly. Between 1907 and 1910 he was District Attorney in Imperial County. After that, he was a member and then chairman of the Railway Commission of his state. In June 1912 Eshleman was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in part, to the President William Howard Taft to be unsuccessful re-election has been nominated. At this congress it was the separation of the Republicans. Eshleman, the group joined by former President Theodore Roosevelt, and became a member of the newly founded Progressive Party.

1914 Eshleman was elected to the side of Hiram Johnson as Lieutenant Governor of California. This post he held between 1915 and his death on 28 February 1916. Yet he was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate. He died of tuberculosis at a train station in Riverside County.