Andrés Pico
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General Don Andrés Pico (1810-1876) was an influential Mexican-Californian in the mid-19th Century.
He was born 1810 in San Diego to José María Pico and Maria Eustaquia Lopez. During the Mexican War Pico commanded the Mexican forces in California and was Mexican Governor of Alta California (in opposition to the U.S. provisional government). In 1846 Pico signed with John C. Frémont, the American commander, the Treaty of Cahuenga, which ended the war in California.
After California became an American state, Pico remained in California, retained his extensive landholdings, and served as a state senator from San Diego in 1860 and 1861 as a Breckenridge Democrat (Southern sympathizer).
Andrés Pico was the brother of Pío Pico, the last governor of Mexican Alta California. Andrés never married, but adopted several children.
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