Chancellor of the Commonwealth of California | |
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Flag of California | |
Department of the Chancellor | |
Style | The Honourable (formal) Chancellor (spoken) |
Member of | Cabinet • National Security Committee • Federal Council |
Residence | The Lodge, 1 Observatory Circle Sonoma, FD |
Appointer | The President |
Term length | At the President's pleasure contingent on the Chancellor's ability to command confidence in the House of Representatives |
Inaugural holder | John C. Fremont |
Formation | 4 March 1851 173 years ago |
Deputy | Vice Chancellor |
Salary | $530,000 annually |
Website | chancellor.gov.ca |
The Chancellor of the Commonwealth of California (informally referred to as CCC, pronounced "Triple C") is the head of government of California. The Chancellor is the most senior member of the federal government, the leader of the Cabinet and the chairperson of the National Security Committee. The Chancellor also administers the Department of the Chancellor. The individual who holds the office is commissioned by the President of California and at the President's pleasure subject to the Constitution of California.
Almost always and according to convention, the Chancellor is the leader of the majority party or largest party in a coalition of parties in the Californian House of Representatives and continues to be so long as they command the confidence of the House. Some commentators argue that the President may also dismiss a Chancellor who is unable to pass the government's supply bill through both houses of parliament.
Bernie Sanders has held the office of Chancellor since 3 January 2016. He received his commission after the Coalition under his leadership secured a majority in the 55th Parliament of California, elected at the 2015 federal election. He is the 31st individual to serve as Chancellor. His government succeeded that of Democrat and fellow Coalition member Barack Obama.
List of Chancellors
Incomplete list
# | Portrait | Name (Born–Died) |
Term of Office | Political Party | Government | Monarch | ||||
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Term (Election) |
Took Office | Left Office | ||||||||
1 | John C. Frémont Member for Alta California at-large (1813–1890) |
1 (1851) |
4 March 1851 | 7 March 1854 | Independent | Unity | Victoria | |||
2 | Abraham Lincoln Member for Oregon at-large (1809–1885) |
2 (1854) |
7 March 1854 | 2 March 1869 | Independent | Lincoln | ||||
3 (1857) | ||||||||||
4 (1860) |
Lincolnite | |||||||||
5 (1863) | ||||||||||
6 (1866) | ||||||||||
3 | James A. Garfield Member for Texas at-large (1831–1881) |
7 (1869) |
2 March 1869 | 2 March 1875 | Lincolnite | Garfield I | ||||
8 (1872) | ||||||||||
4 | Samuel J. Randall Member for Los Angeles (1828–1890) |
9 (1875) |
2 March 1875 | 1 March 1881 | Anti-Lincolnite | Randall | ||||
10 (1878) | ||||||||||
(3) | James A. Garfield Member for Houston West (1831–1881) |
11 (1881) |
1 March 1881 | 19 September 1881 (Died in office) |
Liberal | Garfield II | ||||
5 | File:Chester Arthur Portrait.jpg | Chester A. Arthur Member for Eureka Valley (1829–1886) |
19 September 1881 | 6 March 1883 | Liberal | Arthur | ||||
6 | Grover Cleveland Member for Orange (1837–1908) |
12 (1883) |
6 March 1883 | 5 March 1895 | Democratic | Cleveland | ||||
13 (1886) | ||||||||||
14 (1889) | ||||||||||
15 (1892) | ||||||||||
7 | William McKinley Member for Colorado East |
16 (1895) |
2 March 1895 | 14 September 1901 (Died in office) |
Liberal | McKinley | ||||
17 (1898) | ||||||||||
18 (1901) | ||||||||||
8 | Theodore Roosevelt Member for Burbank (1858–1919) |
14 September 1901 | 1 March 1910 | Liberal | Roosevelt I | Edward I | ||||
19 (1904) | ||||||||||
20 (1907) | ||||||||||
9 | William H. Taft Member for Idaho at-large (1857–1930) |
21 (1910) |
1 March 1910 | 4 March 1913 | Liberal | Taft | George III | |||
(8) | Theodore Roosevelt Member for Burbank (1858–1919) |
22 (1913) |
4 March 1913 | 6 January 1919 (Died in office) |
Progressive | Roosevelt II | ||||
23 (1916) | ||||||||||
10 | Hiram Johnson Member for Sacramento (1866–1945) |
6 January 1919 | 4 March 1919 | Progressive | Johnson | |||||
11 | Warren G. Harding Member for Idaho West (1865–1923) |
24 (1919) |
4 March 1919 | 2 August 1923 (Died in office) |
Liberal | Harding | ||||
25 (1922) | ||||||||||
12 | Calvin Coolidge Member for Spokane (1872–1933) |
2 August 1923 | 6 March 1928 | Liberal | Coolidge | |||||
26 (1925) | ||||||||||
13 | Herbert Hoover Member for Sacramento (1874–1964) |
27 (1928) |
6 March 1928 | 3 March 1931 | Liberal | Hoover | ||||
14 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Member for San Francisco (1882–1945) |
28 (1931) |
3 March 1931 | 12 April 1945 (Died in office) |
Democratic | F. Roosevelt | ||||
29 (1934) | ||||||||||
30 (1937) |
Edward II | |||||||||
31 (1940) |
George IV | |||||||||
32 (1943) | ||||||||||
15 | Henry A. Wallace Member for Cascadia Northwest (1888–1965) |
12 April 1945 | 3 January 1953 | Democratic | Wallace | |||||
32 (1946) | ||||||||||
33 (1949) | ||||||||||
16 | Charles A. Halleck Member for Oregon East (1900–1986) |
34 (1952) |
3 January 1953 | 3 January 1961 | Liberal | Halleck | Elizabeth | |||
35 (1954) | ||||||||||
36 (1957) | ||||||||||
17 | John F. Kennedy Member for Everett (1917–1963) |
37 (1960) |
3 January 1961 | 22 November 1963 (Died in office) |
Democratic | Kennedy | ||||
18 | Lyndon B. Johnson Member for Houston-Austin (1908–1973) |
22 November 1963 | 3 January 1967 | Democratic | L. Johnson | |||||
38 (1963) | ||||||||||
19 | Robert F. Kennedy Member for Los Angeles (1925–1993) |
39 (1966) |
3 January 1967 | 3 January 1976 | Democratic | R. Kennedy | ||||
40 (1969) | ||||||||||
41 (1972) | ||||||||||
20 | Jimmy Carter Member for Arizona Southeast (born 1924) |
42 (1975) |
3 January 1976 | 3 January 1982 | Democratic | Carter | ||||
43 (1978) | ||||||||||
21 | George H. W. Bush Member for Houston West (1924–2018) |
44 (1981) |
3 January 1982 | 3 January 1991 | Liberal | Bush | ||||
45 (1984) | ||||||||||
46 (1987) | ||||||||||
22 | Bill Clinton Member for Oklahoma West (born 1946) |
47 (1990) |
3 January 1991 | 3 January 1998 | Democratic | Clinton | ||||
48 (1993) | ||||||||||
49 (1996) | ||||||||||
23 | Al Gore Member for Colorado North-Central (born 1948) |
50 (1997) |
3 January 1998 | 3 January 2004 | Democratic | Gore | ||||
51 (2000) |
President | |||||||||
Ted Kennedy | ||||||||||
Jimmy Carter | ||||||||||
24 | George W. Bush Member for Lubbock-Abilene (born 1946) |
52 (2003) |
3 January 2004 | 3 January 2010 | Liberal | G. W. Bush | ||||
53 (2006) |
Madeleine Albright | |||||||||
25 | Barack Obama Member for Portland (born 1961) |
54 (2009) |
3 January 2010 | 3 January 2016 | Democratic | Obama | ||||
55 (2012) |
John Boehner | |||||||||
26 | Bernie Sanders Member for Tiwana (born 1941) |
56 (2015) |
3 January 2016 | Incumbent | Progressive | Sanders | ||||
57 (2018) |
Joe Biden |
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