1. Elwood Bruner was an American politician and lawyer.
16 Facts About Elwood Bruner
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In 1863 and 1864 Reverend Elwood Bruner was preaching in Sacramento.
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Elwood Bruner graduated in 1874 from the University of the Pacific, when the campus was in San Jose.
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Elwood Bruner became Grand Master of the Stanislaus unit of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in May 1887.
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Elwood Bruner was married to Lillian J Flint in March 1880; they had three daughters.
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Elwood Bruner died on January 15,1915, in Byron Hot Springs, California.
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Elwood Bruner began his political life in 1879, when he was elected to the California State Assembly, and in 1883 he was elected to the board of directors of the Sacramento public school system.
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Elwood Bruner was elected district attorney of Sacramento County in 1886.
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Elwood Bruner was made chairman of the Assembly Judiciary Committee.
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In March 1891, the San Francisco Examiner published a story alleging that Elwood Bruner was promised he would be able to appoint six San Francisco policemen for his aid in pushing through the police-force bill.
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The allegation was made that Elwood Bruner received the sum of $400 from one Thomas Stoley for the Assemblyman's recommendation that Stoley be appointed to the force.
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Gould and John R Mathews, found Bruner had "the intention of selling a position on the police force of San Francisco and appropriating to the use of himself and accomplices the proceeds thereof".
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The Examiner returned to the attack in June 1891, claiming that Elwood Bruner had been promised $1,000 by "ticket brokers" for his help in squelching a bill "designed to abolish the ticket-scalping business".
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In 1903, Elwood Bruner moved to Nome, Alaska Territory where he practiced law.
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In 1912, Elwood Bruner was elected to the Alaska Territorial Senate as an independent, and served until his death in 1915.
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Elwood Bruner died in Byron, California, where he had gone to recuperate from health problems.