José María Covarrubias (c. 1809 – April 1, 1870) was a Californio politician and a signer of the Californian Constitution in 1849.

[1] He served as mayor of Santa Barbara from 1853 to 1854, and represented the city in the California State Assembly for several terms between 1849 and 1862.

[2] Covarrubias born to a Spanish family from France that emigrated to Mexico in 1818.

Covarrubias became Pío Pico's private secretary in 1845.

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