Journalist and editor; Member Henrico County (Virginia) Agricultural Society, investigated problem of soil exhaustion; member California Constitutional Convention, 1849; son of Benjamin Gaines Botts (defense attorney for Aaron Burr during his treason and conspiracy trial) and Jane Tyler Botts.
During the 1849 Constitutional Convention, Botts argued against allowing women to own property independent from her husband; "The only despotism on earth that I would advocate, is the despotism of the husband. There must be a head and there must be a master in every household; and I believe this plan by which you propose to make the wife independent of the huband, is contrary to the laws and provisions of nature - contrary to all the wisdom which we have derived from experience. This doctrine of woman's rights, is the doctrine of those mental hermaphrodites, Abby Folsom, Fanny Wright, and the rest of that tribe."
Signed California Constitution on 13 October 1849 (see photo).
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Ex-judge Chas. J. Botts, one of the most prominent of the early lawyers of this State, died in San Francisco on Saturday last, aged 75 years. His death was the result of an operation performed a few days previous for the removal of a cancer which had attacked the upper part of his face.
Judge Botts was born in Virginia and was a brother of the celebrated John Minor Botts who fell in a duel in that State many years ago. He belonged to the ultra school of Democracy and has been prominent in his party almost ever since he attained his majority. He, at one time, published a paper in Richmond, Virginia, and acquired a national reputation as a vigorous and incisive writer. He came to California in 1848 under the auspices of President Polk, and in 1850 commenced practicing law in San Francisco in partnership with C. Temple Emmet and Judge Alexander Campbell, now of Tucson, Arizona, constituting the firm of Botts, Emmet & Campbell, which was for many years well known throughout the State. Later, Judge Botts went to Sacramento where he engages journalism, and published a paper called the Standard. After spending two or three year the journalistic field, he resumed the practice of law and was shortly afterward elected District Judge of the district composed of Sacramento and Yolo counties. About ten years ago returned to San Francisco and has resided in Oakland and there ever since, devoting himself to his profession up to the last. He was very successful at the bar and enjoyed a high and well earned reputation as a jurist. He was a genial gentleman, an astute lawyer, a warm friend and as honest a gentleman as ever lived. His wife, died about two years ago in Oakland.
Judge Botts, although advanced in years, preserved his mental and vigor and was engaged in active practice the last. Only recently he received a fee of $25,000 in a single case which he concluded successfully. — S.F. Call
Napa County Reporter, October 10, 1884
During the 1849 Constitutional Convention, Botts argued against allowing women to own property independent from her husband; "The only despotism on earth that I would advocate, is the despotism of the husband. There must be a head and there must be a master in every household; and I believe this plan by which you propose to make the wife independent of the huband, is contrary to the laws and provisions of nature - contrary to all the wisdom which we have derived from experience. This doctrine of woman's rights, is the doctrine of those mental hermaphrodites, Abby Folsom, Fanny Wright, and the rest of that tribe."
Signed California Constitution on 13 October 1849 (see photo).
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Ex-judge Chas. J. Botts, one of the most prominent of the early lawyers of this State, died in San Francisco on Saturday last, aged 75 years. His death was the result of an operation performed a few days previous for the removal of a cancer which had attacked the upper part of his face.
Judge Botts was born in Virginia and was a brother of the celebrated John Minor Botts who fell in a duel in that State many years ago. He belonged to the ultra school of Democracy and has been prominent in his party almost ever since he attained his majority. He, at one time, published a paper in Richmond, Virginia, and acquired a national reputation as a vigorous and incisive writer. He came to California in 1848 under the auspices of President Polk, and in 1850 commenced practicing law in San Francisco in partnership with C. Temple Emmet and Judge Alexander Campbell, now of Tucson, Arizona, constituting the firm of Botts, Emmet & Campbell, which was for many years well known throughout the State. Later, Judge Botts went to Sacramento where he engages journalism, and published a paper called the Standard. After spending two or three year the journalistic field, he resumed the practice of law and was shortly afterward elected District Judge of the district composed of Sacramento and Yolo counties. About ten years ago returned to San Francisco and has resided in Oakland and there ever since, devoting himself to his profession up to the last. He was very successful at the bar and enjoyed a high and well earned reputation as a jurist. He was a genial gentleman, an astute lawyer, a warm friend and as honest a gentleman as ever lived. His wife, died about two years ago in Oakland.
Judge Botts, although advanced in years, preserved his mental and vigor and was engaged in active practice the last. Only recently he received a fee of $25,000 in a single case which he concluded successfully. — S.F. Call
Napa County Reporter, October 10, 1884
Journalist and editor; Member Henrico County (Virginia) Agricultural Society, investigated problem of soil exhaustion; member California Constitutional Convention, 1849; son of Benjamin Gaines Botts (defense attorney for Aaron Burr during his treason and conspiracy trial) and Jane Tyler Botts.
During the 1849 Constitutional Convention, Botts argued against allowing women to own property independent from her husband; "The only despotism on earth that I would advocate, is the despotism of the husband. There must be a head and there must be a master in every household; and I believe this plan by which you propose to make the wife independent of the huband, is contrary to the laws and provisions of nature - contrary to all the wisdom which we have derived from experience. This doctrine of woman's rights, is the doctrine of those mental hermaphrodites, Abby Folsom, Fanny Wright, and the rest of that tribe."
Signed California Constitution on 13 October 1849 (see photo).
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Ex-judge Chas. J. Botts, one of the most prominent of the early lawyers of this State, died in San Francisco on Saturday last, aged 75 years. His death was the result of an operation performed a few days previous for the removal of a cancer which had attacked the upper part of his face.
Judge Botts was born in Virginia and was a brother of the celebrated John Minor Botts who fell in a duel in that State many years ago. He belonged to the ultra school of Democracy and has been prominent in his party almost ever since he attained his majority. He, at one time, published a paper in Richmond, Virginia, and acquired a national reputation as a vigorous and incisive writer. He came to California in 1848 under the auspices of President Polk, and in 1850 commenced practicing law in San Francisco in partnership with C. Temple Emmet and Judge Alexander Campbell, now of Tucson, Arizona, constituting the firm of Botts, Emmet & Campbell, which was for many years well known throughout the State. Later, Judge Botts went to Sacramento where he engages journalism, and published a paper called the Standard. After spending two or three year the journalistic field, he resumed the practice of law and was shortly afterward elected District Judge of the district composed of Sacramento and Yolo counties. About ten years ago returned to San Francisco and has resided in Oakland and there ever since, devoting himself to his profession up to the last. He was very successful at the bar and enjoyed a high and well earned reputation as a jurist. He was a genial gentleman, an astute lawyer, a warm friend and as honest a gentleman as ever lived. His wife, died about two years ago in Oakland.
Judge Botts, although advanced in years, preserved his mental and vigor and was engaged in active practice the last. Only recently he received a fee of $25,000 in a single case which he concluded successfully. — S.F. Call
Napa County Reporter, October 10, 1884
During the 1849 Constitutional Convention, Botts argued against allowing women to own property independent from her husband; "The only despotism on earth that I would advocate, is the despotism of the husband. There must be a head and there must be a master in every household; and I believe this plan by which you propose to make the wife independent of the huband, is contrary to the laws and provisions of nature - contrary to all the wisdom which we have derived from experience. This doctrine of woman's rights, is the doctrine of those mental hermaphrodites, Abby Folsom, Fanny Wright, and the rest of that tribe."
Signed California Constitution on 13 October 1849 (see photo).
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Ex-judge Chas. J. Botts, one of the most prominent of the early lawyers of this State, died in San Francisco on Saturday last, aged 75 years. His death was the result of an operation performed a few days previous for the removal of a cancer which had attacked the upper part of his face.
Judge Botts was born in Virginia and was a brother of the celebrated John Minor Botts who fell in a duel in that State many years ago. He belonged to the ultra school of Democracy and has been prominent in his party almost ever since he attained his majority. He, at one time, published a paper in Richmond, Virginia, and acquired a national reputation as a vigorous and incisive writer. He came to California in 1848 under the auspices of President Polk, and in 1850 commenced practicing law in San Francisco in partnership with C. Temple Emmet and Judge Alexander Campbell, now of Tucson, Arizona, constituting the firm of Botts, Emmet & Campbell, which was for many years well known throughout the State. Later, Judge Botts went to Sacramento where he engages journalism, and published a paper called the Standard. After spending two or three year the journalistic field, he resumed the practice of law and was shortly afterward elected District Judge of the district composed of Sacramento and Yolo counties. About ten years ago returned to San Francisco and has resided in Oakland and there ever since, devoting himself to his profession up to the last. He was very successful at the bar and enjoyed a high and well earned reputation as a jurist. He was a genial gentleman, an astute lawyer, a warm friend and as honest a gentleman as ever lived. His wife, died about two years ago in Oakland.
Judge Botts, although advanced in years, preserved his mental and vigor and was engaged in active practice the last. Only recently he received a fee of $25,000 in a single case which he concluded successfully. — S.F. Call
Napa County Reporter, October 10, 1884
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