Morris M. Estee was an
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lawyer and politician from
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.
Estee spent his young adult life in
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from 1857 to 1859. His business card read: M.M.Estee, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Office: No 88 J Street, bet, Third and Fourth, (South Side,) Sacramento. He was elected in 1862 to the
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, one of five members representing the 16th District. From 1863 to 1866 he was
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for
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.
In 1866 he moved to San Francisco, and practiced with a number of partners including
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In 1873 he was reelected to the Assembly, one of 12 members representing the San Francisco portion of the 8th District, and he was Speaker of the Assembly from 1873 to 1874.
Estee was nominated and ran twice as a Republican for
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. In his first run, Estee was defeated by
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in 1882. His second and final run in 1895 placed him against
James BuddJames Herbert Budd was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. Involved in federal and state politics, Budd was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 2nd California district from 1883 to 1885, and later elected as the 19th Governor of California from 1895 until...
, who also defeated him. Estee also had two failed elections to the U.S. Senate. On June 2, 1900 he was appointed the first
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judge for the
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Estee died October 27, 1903 in
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, Hawaii, at age 69.
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