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William K. Forsyth

Republican

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
09-04-1877	Republican	AD-13	0	Win

Candidate Biography:

Born: 1820 in Ireland

Source: The San Francisco Irish, 1848-1880 by R. A. Burchell (UC Press; 1979)
Source: "Pen Portraits" Compiled by R.R. Parkinson, Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton as part of the California Genealogy & History Archives