Senate Resolution No. 6–Senators Raggio, Titus, Amodei, Care, Carlton, Coffin, Jacobsen, James, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, O’Connell, O’Donnell, Porter, Rawson, Rhoads, Schneider, Shaffer, Townsend, Washington and Wiener

 

March 29, 2001

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Read and Adopted

 

SUMMARY—Inducts George W. Cassidy into Senate Hall of Fame. (BDR R‑1340)

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

Senate RESOLUTION—Inducting George W.Cassidy into the Senate Hall of Fame.

 

1-1    Whereas, The Senate of the Legislature of the State of Nevada has

1-2  established a Senate Hall of Fame whose members are selected by

1-3  leadership from those past Senators who have served with distinction and

1-4  who have made exemplary contributions to the State of Nevada; and

1-5    Whereas, George W. Cassidy, who studied law but chose to make a

1-6  living in the newspaper business, was the proprietor and editor of the

1-7  Eureka Sentinel newspaper at the time of his first election to the Nevada

1-8  Senate in 1872, served the people of the State of Nevada with intelligence,

1-9  vision and compassion as a State Senator from 1873 through 1880 and as a

1-10  member of the United States House of Representatives from 1881 through

1-11  1885; and

1-12    Whereas, Senator Cassidy, a leading figure in the Senate during

1-13  Nevada’s prosperous years of the 1870s, was elected President pro

1-14  Tempore for the 1877 session when the Senate was at its maximum of 25

1-15  members, and sponsored bills to create Eureka County, construct its

1-16  beautiful courthouse, provide for the government of unincorporated towns,

1-17  allocate monetary relief to the victims of the devastating fire in Reno in

1-18  1879, prohibit involuntary servitude of the Chinese and prevent railroad

1-19  rate and fare discrimination; and

1-20    Whereas, Among other accomplishments as Nevada’s Representative

1-21  in Congress, George Cassidy was responsible for the initial appropriation

1-22  for the construction of the Federal Building in Carson City, which today is

1-23  occupied by Nevada’s Commission on Tourism and Nevada Magazine;

1-24  now, therefore, be it

1-25    Resolved by the Senate of the State of Nevada, That George W.

1-26  Cassidy, an outstanding State Senator and Congressman, who sponsored

1-27  progressive legislative measures in both the Nevada Senate and the United

2-1  States House of Representatives, is hereby inducted into the Senate Hall of

2-2  Fame of the Legislature of the State of Nevada.

 

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