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Jesse O. Goodwin

Know Nothing

Date Party Office Votes Result
11-04-1856 Know Nothing SD-15 0 Win
09-02-1857 Know Nothing SD-15 0 Win
09-04-1877 Republican SD-25 0 Win
 

Candidate Biography:

Born: 1817 in Rochester, New York
Died: July 15, 1879 near Vallejo, CA

Previous: Judge, ???? Judicial District (six years)
1872: Presidential Elector

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