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William F. Anderson

Democratic

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-04-1877 Democratic AD-11 0 Win
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: 1826 in Washington, DC
Married.
Died: July 7, 1883 in Idaho Territory [now Idaho]

1856-1860: District Attorney, Nevada County
1861: Candidate for Delegate to Congress [Nevada Territory]
1868: Candidate for Congress [Nevada]

Source: Pen Portraits Compiled by R.R. Parkinson, Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton as part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)