Pasadena Republican Club
Abbreviation | PRC |
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Formation | 29 March 1884 |
Founder | Colonel Jabez Banbury |
Founded at | Pasadena, California |
Headquarters | Pasadena, California |
Volunteers for 3 year term | |
Affiliations | Republican Party of Los Angeles County and California Republican Party |
Website | http://www.pasadenarepublicanclub.com |
Pasadena Republican Club (PRC) is the oldest, continuously active
The Pasadena Republican Club helps Republican candidates get elected to federal, state, and local office. Pasadena Republican Club is funded by membership donations and general donations.
Pasadena Republican Club also hosts forums during the year on many different subject, promoting educational programs of interest to the general public. Past speakers have included: First Lady Laura Bush,[5][6][7] Secretary of State of California Bruce McPherson, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley and Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Michael D. Antonovich and more. The Pasadena Republican Club has a volunteer board of directors that make quarterly newsletters, voter guides and invitations to local events.[8]
History
Pasadena Republican Club was started on March 29, 1884, ten years after the founding of Pasadena, colonel
In 1884 Ben E. Ward was the club secretary. Ward published Pasadena's first newspaper, The Chronicle. Banbury, Ward, and H. W. Magee went on to be delegates to a Los Angeles Republican convention that voted on delegates to the Republican State convention, for the selection of the Republican candidate for US Congress Sixth District. On July 23, 1884
In 1909 the Pasadena Republican Club celebrated its 25th anniversary, the guest speaker was
See also
- California State Assembly
- California State Assembly districts
- Districts in California
- Republican National Committee
- National Republican Senatorial Committee
- National Republican Congressional Committee
- Bruce V. Reagan
Photo gallery
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Henry Markham, Pasadena Republican Club member and Governor of California
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Judge George Russell Davis Pasadena Republican Club President in 1909.
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Charles W. Bell Pasadena Republican Club member and a U.S. Representative from California
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Laura Bush appears to campaign on behalf of her husband in 2000
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Members attend a watch party of the broadcast of George W. Bush's acceptance speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention
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Steve Cooley at the Grand Opening party for the Pasadena Republican Club's 2010 Election Headquarters
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Elaine Klock, longest HQ president, at the Pasadena Republican Club HQ Grand Opening in 2008
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Members watch the third 2008 presidential general election presidential debate
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Barry Goldwater, Jr. at the Pasadena Republican Club
References
- ^ "Local GOP". Republican Party of Los Angeles County. Archived from the original on Dec 26, 2018.
- ^ "Elaine H. Klock". Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries. Archived from the original on Dec 5, 2017.
- ^ Lopez, Steve (2014-11-05). "Hope for a GOP resurrection is alive and well in Pasadena". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ RBerteig (August 26, 2004). "Pasadena Headquarters Grand Opening". Flickr.
- ^ Laura Bush at the Pasadena Republican Club with HQ Chair: RBerteig (September 13, 2000). "20000913-094807". Flickr.
- ^ Laura Bush at the Pasadena Republican Club: RBerteig. "PRC Events". Flickr.
- ^ RBerteig. "Laura Bush at the PRC 2000 HQ". Flickr.
- ^ "Gubernatorial Candidate Bill Simon to Speak to Pasadena Republican Club On Tuesday, December 11th". PR Newswire. Nov 15, 2001. Archived from the original on Dec 4, 2017.
- ^ Pasadena Independent from Pasadena, California, Page 17, May 10, 1965
- ^ pasadenahistory.org, Pasadena Museum of History, Thomas Croft: The Man Who Owned Pasadena for a Day, By Nick Smith
- ^ Water and Power Associates, Early Views of Pasadena
- ^ History of Pasadena, comprising an account of the native Indian, 1895, By Hiram a. Reid, a. M., M. D., page 228, Published by Pasadena History Company
- ^ bioguide.congress.gov, James McLachlan
- ^ Thirty Years in Pasadena, by Lon F. Chapin, 1929
- ^ Pasadena- Historical and Personal, by J. W. Wood, 1917
- ^ Pasadena Independent from Pasadena, California, Page 15, April 23, 1962
- ^ Pasadena Independent from Pasadena, California, Page 8, February 10, 1960
- ^ Pasadena Independent from Pasadena, California, Page 11, September 13, 1960
- ^ Pasadena: Its Early Years, by Henry Markham, 1964
- ^ Pasadena Republican Club 125th year anniversary Election Headquarters on flickr.com
- ^ Pasadena Republican Club Election Headquarters 2006 on flickr.com