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Robert B. Sherrard

Whig

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
09-06-1854	Whig	AD-15	0	Win
09-05-1855	Know Nothing	AD-15	0	Win

Website:	www.findagrave.com/memorial/147950802/robert-b_-sherrard

Candidate Biography:

Born: Winchester, VA
Died: 1860 in Winchester, Virginia

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)
Source: Daily National Democrat 9 October 1860 — California Digital Newspaper Collection (ucr.edu)