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BiographyEdit

Early yearsEdit

Phelps was born in Oxford, New York, and completed preparatory schooling there and then moved to New York City in 1845 where he worked in mercantile for a short time, then returned to Chenango County to study law.<ref name=BioGuide>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=SFC />

MiningEdit

As soon as word of the mid-century gold finds in California reached New York, Phelps took a boat to the west coast.<ref name=BioGuide /> He arrived in San Francisco, California, via Panama, on December 14, 1849<ref name=SFC /> and he moved to Tuolumne County, California, where he tried his hand at mining.<ref name=BioGuide /> Failing to find a fortune in gold, he moved to San Francisco to resume a career in the mercantile,<ref name=BioGuide /> starting a merchant house in August 1850.<ref name=SFC />

CareerEdit

Phelps's business losses were substantial in the great fire of May 1851, but Phelps rebuilt and soon recovered his loss.<ref name=SFC /> It was during this period of recovery that he purchased Template:Convert of land in what is now San Mateo County, California.Template:Citation needed He used the land for farming and soon decided to make the area, now the city of San Carlos, his home.<ref name=Alexander-Hamm />

Living in San Carlos, in 1851 Phelps became involved in the local vigilance committee in an effort to uphold the law.<ref name=Alexander-Hamm />

State assemblyEdit

Following a failed state assembly bid in 1854, when he ran with Col. E.D. Baker,<ref name=SFC /> Phelps was elected to the California State Assembly in 1855 and served until 1857<ref name=SFC /> as the first Republican from San Francisco and San Mateo Counties.<ref name=BioGuide /> During his term, he served on the first Grand Jury on August 1, 1856.<ref name=Alexander-Hamm /> He introduced "An Act to reorganize and establish the County of San Mateo" in March 1857.<ref name=Alexander-Hamm />

He then was served in the California State Senate from 1858 to 1861.<ref name=SFC /> During the 1859 Republican California state convention, his name was advanced as a potential nominee for governor, but he withdrew in favor of Leland Stanford.<ref name=SFC />

In a subsequent 1861 Republican state convention, he ran for the Republican nomination for governor, but was defeated by Stanford, 197 votes to 104.<ref name=SFC />

CongressEdit

Following the 1861 convention, he was elected to the 37th United States Congress where he served from March 4, 1861, until March 3, 1863.<ref name=BioGuide /> When the San Francisco and San Jose Railroad was built in the 1860s, the right of way from Redwood City to Belmont was granted from Phelps's land.<ref name=Alexander-Hamm />

Later careerEdit

His next job was in real estate until 1870 when he became the customs collector for the port of San Francisco (until 1872).<ref name=BioGuide /> In 1875, he won the Republican nomination for Governor of California, but he was defeated by the Democratic candidate William Irwin,<ref name=BioGuide /> in part aided by disgruntled Republicans who ran John Bidwell as an independent candidate.<ref name=SFC /> In 1888, Phelps ran for Congress again, but was defeated by the Democrat Thomas J. Clunie.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

He also served as a regent of the University of California at Berkeley from 1878 until his death.<ref name=BioGuide /><ref name=Alexander-Hamm />

Personal lifeEdit

He married Sophronia J. Jewell (born Nov 13, 1824), of Guilford, New York, on September 13, 1853.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Sophronia died on Template:Death date and age<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Phelps was remarried to Josephine A. McLean in 1870.<ref name=Alexander-Hamm>Template:Cite book</ref>

DeathEdit

He died at age 74 on June 11, 1899, near San Carlos, California, after he was struck by two boys on a tandem bicycle.<ref name=BioGuide /><ref name=SFC>Template:Cite news</ref> The cyclists turned themselves in after learning of his death,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and charges against them were dropped on June 20, 1899, after they related their account of the crash.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

ReferencesEdit

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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, Phelps, Timothy Guy. Retrieved January 13, 2005.
San Mateo County Biographies - Timothy Guy Phelps. Retrieved January 13, 2005.

External linksEdit

Join California Timothy G. Phelps

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