Andres Pico ( November 18, 1810 - February 14, 1876 ) is an influential 19th-century Californian of Mexican descent.
In 1845, Andres Pico and Juan Manso received a nine-year lease for the San Fernando Valley. Pico ran a ranch near Los Angeles that raised cattle.
During the Mexican-American War, Pico commanded the Mexican forces in California and was governor of Upper California , opposing the U.S. interim government. In 1846, Pico carried out a successful attack on forces under the command of US General Stephen Carney near the town of San Pascual (the Battle of San Pascual). However, not having the strength to withstand the Americans, and on the fear that Carney might shoot him, on January 13, 1847, Pico signed with the American officer John Fremont the Caueng Treaty, which ended the war in California [1] .
After California became a US state, Pico remained there [2] and retained his land holdings, and later (in 1860-1861) served as California Senator as a representative of the Democrats and advocate of slavery .
Andres Pico was the brother of Pico Pico, the previous and last officially appointed governor of Mexican Upper California. Andres Pico was never married, but adopted several children.
Notes
- ↑ Pitt, Leonard. Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County. - Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 .-- P. 392. - ISBN 0-520-20274-0 .
- ↑ "Andreas Pico Adobe" Archived on July 1, 2010. , The Branding Iron, December 1976, Number 124; reprinted by the San Fernando Valley Historical Society, 1977; accessed October 11, 2011