Pasadena Republican Club (PRC) is the oldest, continuously active Republican

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, founded on March 29, 1884, . Every two years for the last years the Pasadena Republican Club has operated the Greater Pasadena Area Republican Headquarters in

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with the help of volunteers. Greater Pasadena Area Republican Headquarters supports the towns in the west side of the

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. Pasadena Republican Club works closely with Republicans running for office of the

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. The Pasadena Republican Club helps Republican candidates get elected to federal, state, and local office. Pasadena Republican Club is funded by membership donations and general donations. Pasadena Republican Club also hosts forums during the year on many different subject, promoting educational programs of interest to the general public. Past speakers have included: First Lady

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and

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Michael D. Antonovich and more. The Pasadena Republican Club has a volunteer board of directors that make quarterly newsletters, voter guides and invitations to local events.

History

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Pasadena Republican Club was started on March 29, 1884, ten years after the founding of Pasadena, colonel Jabez Banbury was the first president of the Club. Banbury was one of the early settlers and founders of Pasadena and a veteran of the

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from

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. After the war, with Thomas Croft, Banbury purchased a large lot of land in Pasadena on Orange Grove Ave between

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and California Street. The two became the first students to attended Pasadena's first school on Orange Grove. The second home built in Pasadena was Colonel J. Banbury's ranch home on South Orange Grove Avenue, near the current Tournament of Roses' Wrigley Mansion. In 1884 Ben E. Ward was the club secretary. Ward published Pasadena's first newspaper, ''The Chronicle''. Banbury, Ward, and H. W. Magee went on to be delegates to a Los Angeles Republican convention that voted on delegates to the Republican State convention, for the selection of the Republican candidate for US Congress Sixth District. On July 23, 1884

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was nominated by the sixth district Republican caucus. Markham was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1885 to 1887. He declined to be a candidate for re-nomination in 1886. During his campaign for Governor, Markham was referred to as "the dashing colonel from Pasadena." Markham won his race for Governor and was the 18th

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from January 8, 1891 until January 11, 1895. Markham was a member of the Pasadena Republican Club. He died in Pasadena on October 9, 1923. From 1896 to 1906, the Pasadena Republican Club has a subdivision called ''The American Club'', this club was a marching band, of flags and musical instruments. Very active at holiday times and Presidential election times. In 1894 Pasadena Republican Club member, James McLachlan was elected as a Republican to the United States House, defeating

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He served in the Fifty-fourth

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(March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897).

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, a club member, was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939 until his death in 1956. In the 1950s and 1960s the Pasadena Republican Club sponsored a

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chapter. In 1909 the Pasadena Republican Club celebrated its 25th anniversary, the guest speaker was

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. Davis served as president of the Pasadena Republican Club and a member Republican County Executive Committee of Los Angeles county before his appointment to the

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in 1909. In 1934 the Pasadena Republican Club celebrated its 50th anniversary with a dinner, the guest speaker was Congressman William E. Evans. In March 1984 the Pasadena Republican Club celebrated its 100th anniversary with a grand dinner at the Huntington Sheraton Hotel, some of the guest speakers were

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and

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. In 2009 the Pasadena Republican Club celebrated its 125th anniversary and opened the Greater Pasadena Area Republican Headquarters on North Lake Ave.Pasadena Republican Club Election Headquarters 2006 on flickr.com
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appears to campaign on behalf of her husband in

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's acceptance speech at the

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References

External links

pasadenarepublicanclub.com Official Web site
of the Pasadena Republican Club
Facebook page Pasadena Republican ClubPasadena Republican Club on blogspot.com, 2004 and 2005

California's 41st State Assembly district map
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