Charles Austin Tweed

Following Sacramento, Tweed moved and lived for a time in Auburn, Dutch Flat, and Nevada City.

[4] Later that year, Tweed won election to the California State Senate, representing Placer County for two consecutive terms.

On January 10, 1870, the Republican senator introduced a bill that would allow the state to hire women for the same wages offered to their male coworkers.

[6] Later that session Tweed submitted a petition to amend the state constitution to grant women's suffrage.

[9] The 1871 session of the Arizona Territorial Legislature created Maricopa County and placed it within Tweed's judicial district.

There he purchased some land where members of his family grew alfalfa, corn, peaches, and operated a dairy farm.

In addition to his judicial duties, Tweed became active in early efforts to use the Salt River for irrigation.

[9] This term saw charges raised against the judge, possibly by unhappy litigants, that Tweed drank to excess and had become old and feeble.

Safford, John Philo Hoyt, Chief Justice C. G. W. French, and Edmund W. Wells were among Tweed's defenders and the charges were dismissed in 1876.

[9] After leaving the bench, Tweed moved to Mineral Park and served as counsel for a mining company.