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Lansing B. Mizner

Union

Date Party Office Votes Result
09-05-1865 Union SD-17 0 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/115237033/lansing-bond-mizner
 

Candidate Biography:

Lansing Bond Mizner
Born: December 5, 1825 in Madison Co., Illinois
Married: Ella Watson
Children: Murray M., Lansing B., Minnie Y., Edgar A., William G., Henry W., Addison M., and Wilson
Died: December 9, 1893 in Yountville, CA

1868-1870: President pro Tempore, California State Senate
1888: U.S. Presidential Elector
1889-1890: U.S. Minister to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua

  • Be Fruitful and Multiply: Mizner had eight children.
  • Family: Step-son of James Semple (who served as Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, Illinois Attorney General, Associate Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, Chargé d'Affaires to the Republic of New Granada, and United States Senator from Illinois)
  • Family: Half-brother of Eugene Semple (Governor of Washington Territory 1887-1889)

Source: Anthropographic Chart of the 17th Session of the Legislature... (Sacramento; Russell & Winterburn's, 1867)