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6 unusual facts about Sacramento County


Alan Short

Short was elected as a Democrat to the California State Senate in 1954, representing Sacramento and San Joaquin Counties, and served for 20 years.

Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento

Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento is an Air Station of the United States Coast Guard, located in Sacramento County, California.

Guy S. Houston

The district Houston represented, the 15th Assembly district, covers parts of four counties: Contra Costa, Alameda, San Joaquin and Sacramento.

Sacramento County, California

The river was named by Spanish cavalry officer Gabriel Moraga for the Santisimo Sacramento (Most Holy Sacrament), referring to the Catholic Eucharist.

The board operates in a legislative, executive, and quasi-judicial capacity.

Its county seat is Sacramento, which is also the state capital.


Antioch Bridge

The Antioch Bridge (officially known as the Senator John A. Nejedly Bridge) crosses the San Joaquin River linking Antioch, California with Sacramento County, California, United States.

Bob Oliver

He has also worked at two baseball schools in California's Sacramento County: operating his own Baseball Academy in Sacramento, as well as working as a hitting instructor at Dusty Baker's Baseball Camp in Rancho Cordova.

Lauren Hammond

In that race, she faced sixth district councilmember Dave Jones and Sacramento County supervisor Roger Dickinson.

Training Wheels for Citizenship

The Daily Shows producers invited Sen. Vasconcellos and Sacramento County Registrar Jill LaVine to be interviewed by Rob Corddry, who asked, "Do you ever think of counting blacks as more than one vote to make up for that whole slavery thing? P. Diddy's got to be worth two votes, and Justin Timberlake, he's worth two votes, even though he's not black or anything."


see also

Twin Rivers Unified School District

Lloyd Connelly - Sacramento County Judge, former Assemblymember and Sacramento City Councilmember