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Clarence W. Upton

Democratic

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
09-04-1877	Democratic	AD-07	0	Win

Website:	www.findagrave.com/memorial/7131407/clarence-w_-upton

Candidate Biography:

Born: ~1854 in Massachusetts
Died (in office): February 5, 1878 in Santa Clara, CA

1874: City Clerk, City of Santa Clara

Upton was the youngest Assemblymember in 1878 when he died at age 24.

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)