James King of William
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James King of William was a crusading San Francisco, California, newspaper editor whose assassination by James P. Casey, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, in 1856 resulted in the est
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Depiction of shooting by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 19, 1856
Smiley, Yerkes & Company building in San Francisco adorned with the banner, "The Great Man Has Fallen" to eulogize King
James Casey and Charles Cora were hanged by the Committee of Vigilance on the same day that King of William was buried.
David C. Broderick
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David Colbreth Broderick was an attorney and politician, elected by the legislature as Democratic U.S. Senator from California. He lived in New York until moving to California during the Gold Rush. He
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…as his "blistering" and "frequently scurrilous" editorials "to turn on unscrupulous characters." He often denounced U.S. Senator and private coiner David C. Broderick, who, it was said, was the virtual dictator of San Francisco. Medical historian John Long Wilson wrote that King "dared to expose scoundrels in both…
Portrait by Mathew Brady c. 1857–1859
Broderick-Terry Dueling Place
Photograph of Broderick by Julian Vannerson, 1859