Colonel Thomas Baker was the first lieutenant governor of the state of Iowa. When he moved to Tulare County, CA, he was appointed a county judge in 1853, and was elected later in 1853, and in 1854 and 1856. He became a state senator about 1860,…
Aerial view of downtown Fresno in 1952 looking towards the northwest. All of the major buildings in the Fresno skyline of this era are visible. The skyline was completed in the mid 1920s and remained largely unchanged for the next forty years until…