Joseph C. Gorman

Joseph C. Gorman was an Irish American tinsmith, civil engineer and politician who served as a delegate to California's Second Constitutional Convention from 1878 to 1879, in the California State Senate from 1880 to 1883, and as secretary of the State Board of Examiners from 1898 to 1899. He also served briefly as secretary of the San Francisco Board of Fire Commissioners in 1900, resigning his position to attend to personal matters.
When the California State Legislature convened in 1881 United States [Senate election in California|1881] to elect a U.S. Senator, fellow Workingmen's senator Warren Chase nominated economist and newspaper publisher Henry George. George only received two votes out of 40 cast in the State Senate; one from Chase, and the other from Gorman.