Cannon, Marion
congressman, was born Oct. 30, 1834, in Morgantown, W. Va.
He was elected county recorder of Nevada county in 1869, and served two years.
When the Farmers' Alliance was introduced into California joined that order; and was unanimously elected its first state president in 1890. He organized the people's party of California in 1891; was chosen a representative to the supreme council at Indianapolis in 1891; was selected by that body to represent California in the industrial conference at St. Louis in 1892, and was chosen temporary chairman over that body; and was selected chairman of the California delegation to the national convention of the people's party at Omaha in 1892. He was elected to the fifty-third congress.