Don Antonio María Pico was a Californio politician, ranchero, and a signer of the California Constitution in 1849.Online Archive of California – Antonio Maria Pico correspondence : San Jose, California, 1853–1854 He also served twice as Alcalde of San José.History of California: 1825–1840
Biography Antonio María Pico, a member of the prominent Pico family of California, was born in 1808 in Monterey, California. He was a son of José Dolores Pico and his wife, the former Maria Ysabel de la Asención Cota.
In 1824, Pico left Monterey to serve as a bookkeeper at Mission San Juan Capistrano.
He served as Alcalde of San José (mayor of San Jose) in 1835 and 1844–1845.Oscar T. Shuck,1870, "Representative & Leading Men of the Pacific", Bacon & Co., Printers & Publishers, San Francisco, pages 631-634
Governor Manuel Micheltorena granted Rancho Pescadero (present day city of Tracy, California) in 1843.
He was elected as a delegate for Santa Clara County to the Monterey Constitutional Convention of 1849 and was a signer of the California Constitution.
In 1859, he led a petition of Californio rancheros to the U.S. Congress describing their taxation as unduly high.University of Houston: Digital History – The Public Land Commission
He was elected to the Electoral College in 1860 as an elector for Abraham Lincoln.
Pico died in San Jose on 23 May 1869.
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