Bennett C. Riley
Bennet C. Riley was the sixth and last military governor of California. Riley ordered the election of representatives to a state constitutional convention, and handed over all civil authority to a Governor and elected delegates at the end of 1849 the following year, California joined the U.S. as a state. He participated in the War of 1812 on Lake Ontario. He also served in the United States Army during the Seminole War in Florida, and MexicanAmerican War.
Bennet Riley was born to IrishCatholic parents, Bennet Riley and Susanna Ann Drury in St. Marys, Maryland, 1787 his mother died in 1792 and his father in 1811. Early in life apprenticed to a cobbler he served as a foreman in a shoe factory and later as a sailor on a privateer.
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