Anthony Caminetti

Anthony Caminetti ( born July 30, 1854 in Jackson, Amador County, California, † November 17, 1923 ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1895 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Anthony Caminetti attended the common schools and in San Francisco. He then studied at the University of California at Berkeley. After a subsequent law degree in 1877 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Jackson to work in this profession. Between 1878 and 1882 he was District Attorney in Amador County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1883 and 1885 he was a deputy in the California State Assembly; 1885 to 1887 he was a member of the State Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1890 Caminetti was in the second electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Marion Biggs on March 4, 1891. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1895 two legislative sessions. In 1894 he was not re-elected. In July 1896 Caminetti was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was first nominated on the William Jennings Bryan as their presidential candidate. From 1896 to 1900 he sat again as a deputy in the State Assembly. From 1897 to 1899 he acted State Commissioner for Law Reform ( Code Commissioner). After that he belonged 1907-1913 once again to the State Senate.

From 1913 to 1921 Caminetti worked for the federal immigration authority. In 1917 he was appointed after the entry of the United States into the First World War to the Commission, which dealt with the wartime industrial production. After the war, he traveled to Europe to get a picture of the local conditions. Otherwise, he practiced as a lawyer in Jackson again. There he died on 17 November 1923.