List of members of the California Senate from Butte County
This is a historical list of members of the California Senate representing Butte County, California from the beginning of statehood.
Senator | Party | Years of Service | Residence | Notes |
John Bidwell | 1850 | Chico | Sacramento District | |
Alonzo W. Adams | 1851 | |||
Joseph E.N. Lewis | Democratic | 1852 | ||
Charles F. Lott | 1852, 1853 | |||
Elisha T. Peck | Whig | 1854, 1855 | ||
John B. McGee | Democratic | 1856, 1857 | ||
John Coulter | Democratic | 1858 | ||
A.S. Hart | Democratic | 1858, 1859 | ||
S.A. Ballou | Democratic | 1859, 1860 | ||
James M. Vance | Democratic | 1860, 1861 | ||
Richard Irwin | Democratic | 1861, 1862 | ||
R.C. Gaskill | Republican | 1862, 1863, 1864 | ||
Thomas Bowles Shannon | Union | 1863 | ||
F.M. Smith | Union | 1863–4, 1865 | ||
Seneca Ewer | Union | 1865, 1867 | ||
John Conly | Republican | 1867, 1869 | ||
George Clement Perkins | Republican | 1869, 1871, 1873 | ||
David Boucher | 1871 | |||
William C. Hendricks | Democratic | 1873, 1875 | 26th district | |
W.H. Crane | Republican | 1877 | 26th district | |
William A. Cheney | Republican | 1880, 1881 | 26th district | |
William W. Kellogg | Democratic | 1883, 1885 | 4th district | |
Albert F. Jones | Democratic | 1887, 1889 | 4th district | |
W.A. Shippee | Republican | 1891, 1893, 1897 | 4th district | |
Henry C. Wilson | Democratic | 1893 | 4th district | |
W. F. Maggard | Republican | 1899, 1901 | 4th district | |
Marshall Diggs | Democratic | 1903, 1905 | 6th district | |
A.E. Boynton | Republican | 1907–1913 | 6th district | |
W. E. Duncan, Jr. | Democratic | 1915, 1917, 1919, 1921 | 6th district | |
W.F. Gates | Republican | 1923, 1925 | 6th district | |
Ray Jones | Republican | 1927, 1929 | 6th district | |
Charles H. Deuel | Democratic | 1931, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1947 | 6th district | |
Harry E. Drobish | Democratic | 1948–1950 | 6th district | |
Paul L. Byrne | Republican | 1951–1962 | 6th district | |
Stan Pittman | Republican | 1963–1966 | 6th district | |
Fred W. Marler, Jr. | Republican | 1967–1974 | 5th district | |
Jim Nielsen | Republican | 1983–1990 | 4th district | |
Ray E. Johnson | Republican | 1976–1983, 1983–1984 | 1st district | |
Tim Leslie | Republican | 1991–2000 | 1st district | |
Mike Thompson | Democratic | 1991–1993 | 4th district | |
Maurice Johannessen | Republican | 1993–1994, 1995–2002 | 4th district | |
Rico Oller | Republican | 2001–2004 | 1st district | |
Sam Aanestad | Republican | 2003–2010 | 4th district | |
Doug LaMalfa | Republican | 2011–2012 | 4th district |