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The Delegates of 1849: Life Stories of the Originators of California's Reputation as a Bold and Independent State John Keats Sriman NarAyaNan in the Mantra1849 Gold Rush madness threatened to destroy California. Congress could not decide if the western territory should be admitted as a slave state or a free state. Something had to be done, and newly appointed Military Governor Bennet C. Riley had the guts to do it: call a constitutional convention. Of the seventy two men elected, forty eight delegates left their homes and businesses to come to Monterey and draft a constitution. Their socio economic