General Vallejo was elected to this council. Military Governor Bennett Riley responded by calling for the California-wide election of delegates to a constitutional convention in Monterey. Both Vallejo and Semple were chosen from the Sonoma district.
Semple became the President of this convention while Vallejo served on finance, elections, and translation committees. Vallejo supported the successful proposal to outlaw slavery in California as well as the Californio proposal to maintain separate property rights for women. He also supported the right of Indians who owned property to vote, a proposal which did not pass.
Realizing that lack of money would prevent commissioners from drawing up a framework for a new legal system in the months ahead, he offered to pay for this himself. His offer was not accepted. Appropriately the convention ended when Vallejo, Semple, and Sutter were selected to present the new constitution to General Riley for his consent.
On November 13, , the California voters approved the constitution of California and General Vallejo was voted one of the first state senators. On September 9, Congress finally accepted the constitution and California was admitted as the 31 st state, thereby completing the objective Vallejo had worked so hard to achieve.
While state senator, Vallejo promoted an act for the government of the Indians, a tax to allow a free school system in California, and spoke out against a proposed act to exclude free blacks from immigrating to the state. He pledged money to build a university in San Jose, the first state capitol. In , Vallejo donated land 7 miles west of Benicia on which to build a new state capitol. The voters approved this offer. In , the capitol was moved to the embryonic city of Vallejo but did not stay because construction was far from complete.
After a brief move to Sacramento, the capitol moved back to Vallejo, but now Thomas Larkin lured the legislators to Benicia. The new United States Land Commission put the onus on each land grant owner to prove the validity of each grant to avoid forfeiting it.
Yet through these ordeals Vallejo showed an enormous power of forgiveness and continued to find virtues in others. Frisbie became richer as Vallejo became poorer. He became a member of the state board of horticulture, and supported an early resolution to protect the redwood trees. He collected a vast amount of written material pertaining to the Indians and early Californios which he provided to Hubert H. Bancroft, and together with his 5 volume written history remains a preeminent resource for historical research at the Bancroft Library today.
General Vallejo maintained an unshakable faith in the American democracy, and took great pleasure in an visit to the historical sites of Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, where the founding fathers had created this system. He became a ubiquitous orator and guest at public events and joined the Society of California Pioneers. He proudly supported his children in the new California of the late 19 th century which barely retained any trace of the California he had known in his youth.
He died on January 18, at the age of 82 and was buried in the Sonoma Mountain Cemetery. His passing was recognized as the end of an era that encompassed the most historic events in California's past. Throughout the 20th century and to the present, General Vallejo's many contributions to the City of Sonoma were remembered in various civic events and parades, often with a citizen portraying the General for the event.
On Pueblo Day, June 24, , the nd anniversary of the founding of the Pueblo de Sonoma, General Vallejo was honored by the dedication of a life-sized bronze statue of him on the north side of the historic Sonoma Plaza. Bancroft, Hubert. California Pioneer Register and Index — Regional Publishing Co. Browne, J. Report of the debates in the Convention of California on the formation of the state constitution, in September and October, Towers, Washington, D.
Davis, William H. Emparan, Madie B. The Vallejos of California. When the pirate, Bouchard, sacked Monterey, Mariano fled inland with his mother and siblings. His father and older brother remained behind to defend the capital. Governor Sola mentored the young Vallejo, providing him with a role model for solid leadership, liberalism, and sophistication.
Vallejo served as personal secretary to Governor Arguello; entered military service as a cadet at Monterey; and became a member of the territorial legislature. He married Francisca Benicia Carrillo after waiting two years for official approval. They were to become the parents of 16 children and at least two adopted children Vallejo's illegitimate children. Around this time, he received the ten-league grant, Rancho Petaluma.
His land acreage , acres was comprised of gifts, purchases, and awards for services or debts owned him. At his own expense, he outfitted and fed the Mexican troops at Sonoma for the next ten years.
He began building his new home, La Casa Grande, on the Sonoma plaza. Vallejo became director of colonization the only person empowered to grant land in the Northern frontier.
Although prohibited by Mexican law, Vallejo reluctantly welcomed the first American immigrants to travel overland to California. Navy, hoisted the U. After apologies were made for the illegal "seizure", Vallejo entertained Jones at Sonoma. As Californios squabbled over political control, Vallejo dismissed his troops at Sonoma and remained neutral. June 10, Bear Flag Revolt. Vallejo was arrested in his own home by American frontiersmen. After signing articles of capitulation, Mariano and his brother Salvador and others were jailed for two months at Sutter's Fort.
Less than a month later it was replaced with the Stars and Stripes. This colonization plan was designed to prevent further extension of the Russian establishment of Fort Ross.
As a reward for his success, he was given approximately 44 acres in the Petaluma Valley to develop as his own private rancho. This agricultural empire and his already-established civil and military powers made him one of the wealthiest and most influential men of his day in California. In the Russians decided to abandon their outposts at Bodega and Fort Ross and offered to sell the fort to Vallejo.
After several months of delays in the negotiations, the fort was purchased by John Sutter. They then raised a newly designed flag—the Bear Flag—over Sonoma. Within a month, the U.
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