Joseph Pendleton Hoge b. 15 Dec 1810 Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio, USA d. 14 Aug 1891 San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA: If the Legends Are True...

Hoge was elected by one vote. After the Workingmen failed to garner enough votes for their candidate, Henry Larkin, they threw their votes to W.J. Tinnen, a Non-Partisan, but not the corporation candidate: That was Hoge and he won 74- 73. C. SWISHER, supra note 8, at 37.

...On Saturday, February 15, the papers reported the one-week continuance of Clara Foltz's case against Hastings. There was a lull in the Convention as well with a quiet Saturday devoted to municipal organization. But Monday brought a marked mood swing, perhaps occasioned because President Hoge, a stern parliamentarian, was away for the day. The scene, said one delegate later, was like school when the "master was absent . . . and the pupils proceeded in singing songs, throwing books and turning hand springs over the benches . . . ." The business before the Convention was the aptly named article on Miscellaneous Subjects, reported from the only committee that had a Workingmen majority. Herrington, from Santa Clara, set the tone by objecting on health grounds to Sacramento as the capital and calling the city "a boneyard . . . a place of interment for the distinguished brains of the State." This was the first section of the proposed Article.
The rest of the eighteen sections ranged from enacting a mechanic's lien statute into organic law to setting the fiscal year's start at July 1. There was a lot of action and not much serious oratory as each clause was amended, eliminated or accepted, and so on to the next. A Workingman from El Dorado objected that the section stripping suffrage from any person who engaged in a duel cast "a stain" upon "the leading man of this Convention, . . . the ablest man upon this floor, the most independent, free from any rings, or cliques, or restraint." The remark confirms David Terry's standing with the Workingmen, but as Ayers pointed out, this section was not aimed at Terry, but was simply carried over from the 1849 Constitution.

In an atmosphere that at times combined hilarity and hysteria, the day wore on through consideration of seventeen sections with some unpredictably rousing opposition and others gliding by. Late in the afternoon, section 18 was reached. Intended to prevent Chinese from acquiring property, its poor drafting made it virtually incomprehensible. In a dazzling double play by the women's two floor managers, Ayers moved to strike the clause and Ringgold stepped in to "offer a new section":

No person shall, on account of sex, be disqualified to enter upon and pursue any lawful business, avocation, or profession.

The new section passed without comment.

Photos		Hoge → Joseph Pendleton - Hastings, Tower 100 McCallister Street, San Francisco, California
		Hoge → Joseph Pendleton - Hastings, Snodgrass Hall 198 McCallister Street, San Francisco, California
		Hoge → Joseph Pendleton - Hastings, Kane Hall 200 McCallister Street, San Francisco, California

Notes	(Research): footnote 105 from Clara Shortridge Foltz: Constitution Maker Joseph Hoge was a Democrat, elected as a Non-Partisan. Sixty-five years old at the time of the Convention, he was an accomplished parliamentarian and earned the respect of most of the men at the Convention--as the tribute to him, and gift of 100 great books bound in leather on the last day, shows. See DEBATES, supra note 10, at 1525. Ayers remembered him as "springy and elastic, . . . at home with the exuberance of the younger members [,] . . . [without] superior in parliamentary knowledge [and] . . . thought by some to be 'czarish,' and disposed to crush . . . those who had the temerity to question his rulings." J. AYERS, supra note 1, at 308. Hoge had immigrated from Illinois where he had twice served in Congress, and where he and Wilson had been partners. O. SHUCK, supra note 36, at 565-66. He was also the first President of the San Francisco Bar and a founding Director of Hastings College of the Law. T. BARNES, supra note 32, at 44-45. Barnes writes that though active at the Convention, both Hoge and Wilson were "intimately and continuously involved in Hastings' direction during its first academic year." Id. at 46. In the same passage that she proclaimed David Terry the "gallant knight of the Convention," Clara Foltz said of Hoge: "He was opposed to women in public life, opposed to women in any place except possibly in their homes-- just as though every woman had a home then any more than she has now!" Struggles, supra note 4, Mar. 1917. Hoge was elected by one vote. After the Workingmen failed to garner enough votes for their candidate, Henry Larkin, they threw their votes to W.J. Tinnen, a Non-Partisan, but not the corporation candidate: That was Hoge and he won 74- 73. C. SWISHER, supra note 8, at 37. [11]