Selden A. McMeans

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Selden Allen McMeans (July 1806 - July 31, 1876) was an American physician and politician.

Born near Knoxville, Tennessee, McMeans first began practicing medicine in the 1840s in Greenville, South Carolina. In 1846, he volunteered for service in the Mexican-American War. After the war ended, he moved to El Dorado County, California, where he was a member of the California State Assembly for the 12th District (1852–54) and served as the second California State Treasurer (1854–56).

In the fall of 1859, McMeans moved to Virginia City, Nevada after the Comstock Lode silver strike. When the news of the firing on Fort Sumter reached Virginia City in 1861, McMeans announced that he would capture Fort Churchill for the Confederacy, but was quickly disabused of this notion by news of a detachment of Union soldiers heading from Fort Churchill to Virginia City. After the Civil War, he organized the Democratic Party in Nevada and became its first chairman. He eventually moved to Reno, where he died at age 70 in 1876.

External links

"Dr. Selden A. McMeans, Nevada's Early Politician Doctor", Greasewood Tablettes, University of Nevada Medical School, Spring 2004

California Assembly
Preceded by John Bigler, Daniel J. Lisle, Charles Robinson	California State Assemblyman, 12th District 1852-1854 (with three others)	Succeeded by Four members

v t e Treasurers of California

Roman McMeans Bates English Findley Ashley Pacheco Coronel Baehr Estudillo Well January Oullahan Herold McDonald Rackliffe Green Reeves Williams Roberts Richardson Johnson Button Priest Unruh Whitney Hayes Brown Fong Angelides Lockyer

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Name	McMeans, Selden A.
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Short description	American politician
Date of birth	1806
Place of birth
Date of death	July 31, 1876
Place of death

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